Month: October 2017
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John Grabach
Growing up in Delaware and living for many years in southeastern Pennsylvania, I’ve become familiar with most of the historic regional schools of painting from this part of the eastern seaboard, like the Brandywine School, the New Hope School (otherwise known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists), the Hudson River School, the Ashcan School and others in…
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Eye Candy For Today: Paul Sandby gouache of Queen Elizabeth Gate
Queen Elizabeth Gate, Paul Sandby Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art. Gouache and watercolor on paper, roughly 14 x 18 inches (36 x 47 cm). A wonderful effect of being precise without being stiff. Sandby appears to…
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Michal Jasiewicz
Michal Jasiewicz is a Polish architect whose avocation and passion is painting in watercolor. Like other artists trained in architecture or architectural rendering, Jasiewicz’s work is characterized by a foundation of solid draftsmanship that allows his to apply his colors freely without losing the sense of underlying geometric strength. I particularly like that characteristic of…
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Sara Tyson (update)
Sara Tyson is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Ontaio, Canada, who I first profiled back in 2007. Her illustration clients include the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Harvard Business Review, The Globe & Mail, Road & Track, Penguin Group, McGraw-Hill Ryerson and Harcourt Publishers, among others. Tyson works in a highly stylized and often…
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“Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice” at the Getty
When I first came across reproductions of the painting St. Francis in the Desert by Venitian master Giovanni Bellini years ago, my immediate thought was: here is an artist who is constrained by his time to painting religious subjects, but really, really wants to paint landscape. Seeing that painting in person at the Frick Collection…