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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Parton landscape

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    Early Spring, Arthur Parton In the Indianapolis Museum of Art, use zoom or download options to the right of the image. Beautifully direct and painterly, with wonderful control of hard and soft edges, Parton’s unpretentious landscape captures the season perfectly.

  • Peter Diamond

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    Peter Diamond is an illustrator based in Vienna, Austria. His bright, often detailed images appear to combine a love of classic illustration with some of the characteristics of Japanese woodblock prints, all in service of a very modern sensibility. In addition to his website, you can find his work on his Behance portfolio and on…

  • Gabriel von Max

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    Gabriel Cornelius von Max was a Czech/Austrian painter who was active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Among his fascinations were parapsychology, mysticism and Asian philosophy, as well as anthropology and Darwinism. Likely from his interest in the latter, he kept a family of monkeys on his property, studied them and painted them,…

  • New online collection from the Indianapolis Museum of Art

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    A number of art museums have been revitalizing their websites as they begin to realize what a powerful tool they are for public relations, as well as for their theoretical mission of education. Not all can aspire to the gold standard set a few years ago by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but many museums…

  • Adam Rex (update)

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    Adam Rex is a children’s book illustrator and writer, who I first profiled back in 2007. His books include the well received Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich; a more recent series called the Cold Cereal Saga, the titles from which include Champions of Breakfast and Unlucky Charms; and a 2009 title, The True Meaning of Smekday,…

  • Alfred Wahlberg

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    19th century Swedish landscape painter Alfred Wahlberg studied briefly in Stockholm and in Dusseldorf, but took influence from his exposure to modern French painting in Paris; and his work shows both the dark moodiness of the northern schools and the brighter palette of the French painters. In much of his work, even pieces that I…