Year: 2021
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J. C. Leyendecker’s wide awake Santa
Well, here’s something I didn’t know: coffee perks you up! — at least, according to this ad from the December 16, 1940 issue of Life magazine, delightfully illustrated by J. C. Leyendecker. Apparently, Santa is WIDE AWAKE in this ad from the Pan American coffee producers. This is an advertisement for coffee in general, rather…
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Eye Candy for Today: Stepan Kolesnikoff Winter Landscape
Winter Landscape, Stepan Kolesnikoff, gouache on card, roughly 20 x 26 in (50 x 65 cm). Link is to a 2019 auction result on Christie’s (large image here). I assume the painting is currently in a private collection. Another beautiful snow scene in gouache by the Ukrainian/Rusian painter Stepan Kolesnikoff, who was active in the…
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Arturo Noci
Arturo Noci was an Italian painter active in the early to mid 20th century. He painted landscapes in the Divisionist style, a post-Impressionist style that focused on the separation of colors into individual dots — similar to Pointilism — but that were intended to be blended optically. In the later part of his career, he…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francis Seymour Hayden etching
The Lovers’ Walk, No. 1, Francis Seymour Hayden, etching and drypoint, roughly 9 x 13″ (23 x34 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, look for both download and zoom links under the image. This deceptively simple etching by the British painter and printmaker (active in the late 19th and early 20th…
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Alfred de Breanski
Alfred de Breanski was a British painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted a variety of landscape subjects, but his clear preference was for mountains. You will sometimes see him listed as Alfred de Breanski Sr., because his son was also a painter.
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Geographer
The Geographer, Johannes Vermeer, oil on canvas, roughly 18×20 inches(45 x 51 cm). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staedel Museum, Germany. Twenty six years ago this month, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC debuted a most remarkable exhibition of…