Month: December 2020
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2021!
As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past 15 years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with another of J.C. Leyendecker’s terrific New Year’s Baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Equipped with a pickaxe and shiny lunchpail, our 1921 Leyendecker baby seems ready to get to work…
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Fanny Churberg (Update)
19th century Finnish landscape painter Fanny Churberg studied in Helsinki, Düsseldorf, and Paris. She carried from the painters of the Düsseldorf school a love of plain air painting and intently observed landscapes. I love her brushy, textural paint application, best seen if you zoom in or download the high-resolution images of her paintings. I first…
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Adoration of the Shepherds, Matthias Stom
The Adoration of the Shepherds, Matthias Stom (also called Stomer); oil on canvas, I don’t have size information; link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project, high-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Palazzo Madama, Turin. Stom was a 17th century Dutch (or Flemish) painter known for his paintings done in…
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Beleaguered Leyendecker Santa
Another wonderful Saturday Evening Post Santa Claus cover by the brilliant American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, who I think played a major role in forming our modern image of the Jolly One. Here, he is portrayed as not so jolly as he fends off the unwanted attention of the house’s stalwart defender, who apparently doesn’t recognize…
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Eye Candy for Today: Asano Takeji woodblock print
Snow at Ginkakuji Temple, Asano Takeji, woodblock print, sheet size 10 x 14 inches (26 x 36 cm); links is to Ukiyo-e Search, large file here. Asano Takeji was a 20th century Japanese printmaker who worked in the manner of both the shin hanga (new prints) and sōsaku hanga (creative prints) schools of woodblock printmaking.…
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Harold Knight
Harold Knight was an English painter active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries, and the husband of noted painter Laura Knight (née Laura Johnson), who he met when both were art students. Harold Knight was known as a portraitist and genre painter. I find his formal portraits of men to be well executed…