Month: May 2021
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Arvid Mauritz Lindström
Arvid Mauritz Lindström was a Swedish landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied in Stockholm, Munich and Paris and lived in England for a number of years. His landscapes are richly textural and atmospherically evocative of time and place.
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Eye Candy for Today: still life from the Roman School
Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge, Roman School, I have seen this beautiful still life at times attributed to Caravaggio (Michelangelo Marisi), or to a follower of his. Sotheby’s made no such direct claim when the painting passed through their auction house in 2013, referring to it instead as attributed to an unnamed…
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Justin Gerard (update)
Justin Gerard is an illustrator based in Georgia who works in the publishing, gaming and film industries. I first profiled him in 2009, and pointed out my admiration for his richly imaginative dragons. Since then, in the midst of his other work, he has been creating a series of equally imaginative “Monster of the Month”…
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Eye Candy for Today: Max Klinger’s At the Gate
At the Gate (Am Thor), Max Klinger; etching and engraving; roughy 18 x 12″ (45 x 31 cm). Link is to the impression the collection of the National Gallery, DC, whih has both a downloadable and zoomable version of the image (and no longer requires an account to download high-res images). There is also a…
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Chase Stone (update)
Since I last wrote about illustrator and concept artist Chase Stone back in 2014, he has created a new website, and has posted new work there as well as on the site of his artist’s representative, Richard Solomon. Stone works primarily in the areas of fantasy and science fiction, his dramatic highly realized approach bringing…