Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Hugo Birger park scene
Park scene from Sevilla, Hugo Birger, oil on panel, 10 x 16 in. (26 x 41 cm). Link os to past auction page on Bukowskis. In this small panel, !9th centiury Swedish painter Hugo Birger, who was likely influened by time he spent in the company of some of the Barbizon painters, paints a park…
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Marianne Stokes
Marianne Preindelsberger Stokes was an Austrian painter active in England in the late 19th eand early 20th centuries. Her work was primarily figurative. Though many of her paintings are in oil, in her later career she favored egg tempera (as in the Madonna and Child image at top). In these she took stylistic cues from…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ole RIng canal view
Canal View at Wilders Square, Ole Ring, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. (60 x 76 cm). Link is to Uno Langmann art dealers for a sold item. Presumably this is currently in a private collection. Danish painter Ole RIng, active in the early to mid 20th century, here takes a simple white boat,…
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Stan Manoukian
Stan Manoukian is a French illustrator, cartoonist, designer and storyboard artist. Alongside his other projects, Manoukian is an inveterate monster enthusiast. The tagline for his website is ” Monster lover since 1969″. His monsters and be cute or spooky and are often both simultneously. They are rendered with precision and enthusiasm in pencil, pen, duotone…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan
Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew), John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas, 58 x 36 inches (147 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. The Morgan Library’s collection centers on rare books and manuscripts and a fantastic collection of old master drawings, but it does…
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Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art
Anton Seder was an illustrator, designer, art teacher and art school director active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who worked in a style that combined Art Nouveau, naturalism and perhaps a touch of magic realism. The Animal in Decorative Art was a design resource, one of many published in the late 19th…