Lines and Colors art blog

Month: January 2021

  • Eye Candy for Today: Pere Borrell del Caso trompe-lœil

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    \ Two Laughing Girls, Pere Borrell del Caso; oil on canvas, roughly 27 x 27 inches (69 x 69 cm); link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu del Modernisme Catalá, Barcelona. Spanish painter Pere Borrell del Caso, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is known for his…

  • Charles Davis

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    The work of Charles Harold Davis, an American painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, shifted in style over the course of his career. His early work shows his training at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts school, as well as his study in Europe at the Académie Julian (where he studied…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Anders Zorn portrait etching

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    Guli II, Anders Zorn, etching, roughly 8 x 5 1/2 inches (20 x 15 cm). Link is to Bukowski’s auctions, which has a large image available from their page. I assume that the original of this particular impression is now in a private collection. The etching is called Gulli II because the artist did a…

  • Jessica Hayllar

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    Jessica Hayllar, a British painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focused largely on interiors and domestic scenes, and later in her career, on florals. Like her four sisters, Hayllar was tought by her father, James Hayllar, who was a painter of portraits, landscape and genre subjects. Jessica took painting to heart…

  • Eye Candy for Today: John Berkey spacecraft

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    Up in Space, John Conrad Berkey Image is from this article on the always superb One1more2time3’s Weblog (scroll down in the article). (See my post on production designer Hans Bacher’s amazing blog here. If you have not visited this blog, I will issue a Timesink Warning. It’s amazing.) This painting is a wonderful example of…

  • Jan Bogaerts

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    Every once in a while I come across a painter to whom I have the delightful reaction of “Wow! How did I not know about this one before?” That was my response when I stumbled across a painting by Johannes Jacobus Maria ‘Jan’ Bogaerts, a Dutch painter active in the early to mid 20th century,…