Author: cparker
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Gaby D’Alessandro
Originally from the Dominican Republic and currently based in Brooklyn, Gaby D’Alessandro is an illustrator whose clients include The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The National Audubon Society, NPR and The American Museum of Natural History. D’Alessandro has a particular strength in her depictions of scientific concepts and historical figures.…
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Rembrandt Peale’s portraits of Thomas Jefferson
Rembrandt Peale was named by his father, pioneering American artist Charles Wilson Peale, after a famous European artist from the past, like his brothers Raphaelle Peale, Rubens Peale and Titian Peale. Like his father, Rembrandt Peale painted important figures of the American Revolution, who they associated with at the time, including George Washington and Thomas…
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Mary Dawson Elwell
Mary Dawson Elwell (previous married name Mary Dawson Holmes, born Mary Dawson Bishop) was a British painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was married to painter Frederick William Elwell, and her work is sometimes overshadowed by his. Contemporary searches bring up little biographical information on her. The best source I’ve…
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Thomas Paquette – Americas River Re-Explored
Thomas Paquette is a painter I’ve written about several times previously, and whose work I find particularly appealing. Paquette’s approach is fascinating in several ways: his bold and daring compositions, his expressive brushwork, his use of naturalistic and expressionistic color — often within the same painting — and his unconventional treatment of edges. Paquette brings…
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Eye Candy for Today: Meléndez still life with melon
Still Life with Limes, Oranges, Acerola and Watermelon, Luis Egidio Meléndez Link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Just another amazing still life by 18th century Spanish master Luis Egidio Meléndez. As is often the case, his superb command of value and texture steals the show. See my previous…
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Henry Ryland
Henry Ryland was a British painter and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who shows the influence of Victorian painters like Albert Moore and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Though he sometimes painted in oil, he was known for his elegant figurative watercolors. These were rendered — like many watercolors of the time —…