Month: September 2023
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Eye Candy for Today: Hal Foster Prince Valiant strip
A beautiful Hal Foster 1939 Prince Valiant Sunday newspaper comic strip from the glory days of newspaper adventure comics. This is a photo of the original art. It would have been printed in color as a full newspaper page, at a time when newspapers were much larger than the ridiculous size they’ve been reduced to…
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Myles Birket Foster
Myles Birket Foster was a British painter, engraver and illustrator active during the mid to late 19th century. He worked primarily in watercolor, as well as engraving and drawing media. He was noted for his landscapes, a subject of his that I run hot and cold on. I like those that focus on the evocation…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Atkinson Grimshaw cityscape
Glasgow Docks, John Atkinson Grimshaw; oil on card, roughly 12 x 20 inches (30 x 50 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons, I don’t know the location of the original. SInce the Wikimedia image was sourced from Bonham’s auctions, I would assume it’s in a private collection. This nicely atmospheric painting by the Victorian era…
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Kathy Ruck
Kathy Ruck is a painter based in Chester County in southeastern Pennsylvania. Chester County — as the locals will proudly tell you — is “Wyeth County” and Ruck finds inspiration not only in the work of the Wyeth family, but in the countryside in which they also found many of their subjects. A number of…
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Eye Candy for Today: illustration by Kay Nielsen
I believe this illustration by turn of the 20th century Danish illustrator Kay (pronounced “kigh”) Neilsen is for a collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales that included The Twelve Dancing Princesses. Image sourced from poulwebb.blogspot.com.
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Ian Sidaway
Ian Sidaway is an English artist and author or illustrator of numerous books on art instruction. Working primarily in watercolor, Sidaway portrays the english countryside — and places to which he has traveled — with crisp, clear, naturalistic compositions that have a distinct feeling of atmosphere, time and place. In his books, he has been…