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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth pen and ink landscape drawing

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    Landscape drawing (untitled), Franklin Booth Link is to Outside Logic, from this page of Franklin Booth drawings. I don’t know of a reference to the title or use of this drawing as an illustration. Golden Age American illustrator Franklin Booth developed his brilliant and unique style of pen and ink illustration from the mistaken assumption…

  • George Hendrik Breitner

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    Dutch painter George Hendrik Breitner, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was noted for his rough, brushy, textural approach and his subject matter of city streets, working people, military horsemen and figures. In particular he is famous for his recurrent subject of young women in kimonos, their bright colors a…

  • Eye Candy for Today: David Roberts’ Edinburgh

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    Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, David Roberts The link is to a zoomable version on The Google Art Project; there is a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia. Mid-19th century painter David Roberts was known primarily for his views of exotic locations and…

  • Fian Arroyo

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    Fian Arroyo is an illustrator and character designer based in North Carolina whose clients include The Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report, Houghton Mifflin, Scholastic, Disney, General Motors and The U.S. Postal Service. In the portfolios on his website and Behance pages you’ll find work in a variety of genres, done in a…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

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    The birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli The link is to a zoomable version on The Google Art Project; the original is in the Uffizi Gallery; there is a very hi-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons (Note that the full-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons is one of the largest I’ve seen on the web, over 200MB,…

  • Albert Goodwin

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    Albert Goodwin was an English painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Goodwin started his artist career early, coming under the tutelage or Pre-Raphaelite painters Arthur Hughes and Ford Madox Brown at an early age, and exhibiting at the Royal Academy at the age of 15. I his later career he was…