Month: March 2023
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Frank Sherwin
Frank Sherwin was a British artist active in the early to mid 20th century. He is best known for his delightful travel posters, as well as his traditional watercolors. He also painted watercolors for a number of “carriage prints” (images above, bottom, with details). These were horizontal format banners displayed in railway cars for the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adrianus Eversen cityscape
A cityscape by Adrianus Eversen. The only examples I’ve found of this image are on Pinterest, so I don’t know the title, size or present location of the original. I found this copy of the image from this poster. However, I like it a lot, so I felt it worth posting. I don’t care if…
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Alfonso Font
Alfonso Font is a Spanish comiics artist and illustrator. He has worked o a number of comics projects with other creators, as well as on his oen self-penned stories, Taxi, Clarke & Kubrick and Prisoner of the Stars. Font’s drawing style is a delightful combination of solid draftsmanship and loose gesture ink rendering — given…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ludwig Richter’s Genoveva
Genoveva, Ludwig Richter, watercolor on paper, roughly 12 x 7 in (31 x 18 cm); in the collectin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of th elarge image. This painting by 19th century German painter and printmaker Adrian Ludwig Richter depicts the legend of Genoveva, a woman…
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Élisabeth Sonrel
Élisabeth Sonrel was a French painter and illustrator who was active from the late 19th century to the mid-20th. She worked in both Art Nouveau poster style and in a more naturalistic Victorian style of painting.