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  • Gari Melchers

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    Gari Melchers was an American artist, born in Detroit, who studied in Germany and France in the late 19th century, and settled for a time in Holland. He eventually returned to the US, lived and worked in New York for several years, and eventually retired to Virginia. His estate in Virginia, Belmont, is now a…

  • Japanese prints from the Met via Ukiyo-e Search

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    This week is one of the weeks designated two times a year as “Asia Week New York” by the Japanese Art Dealers Association, during which a number of galleries, auction houses and museums make a point of having relevant exhibits. Rather than feature images from temporary exhibits, I’m focusing here on a specific ongoing source…

  • Sergey Kolesov

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    Sergey Kolesov is a concept artist based in Lyon, France, and currently working as senior concept artist for Arkane Studios. Kolesov juxtaposes passages of low and high chroma color, and makes use of textures and patterns to give his images a rich surface. You can see see of his professional work on his Behance portfolio,…

  • Bruce Cheever

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    After many years as a successful illustrator, Bruce Cheever changed his focus to gallery art, bringing his admiration for Renaissance art, American Tonalism, Luminism, and Western artists like Thomas Moran to his portrayals of the American West and Southwest, as well as his travels in Italy and other parts of Europe. Though sometimes bathed in…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Piero di Cosimo’s Andromeda freed by Perseus

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    Andromeda fred by Perseus, Piero di Cosimo The link is to a version on Wikimedia Commons (note that the high-resolution file linked form that page is almost 30mb). There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project. the original is in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, but I can’t find an image on the official…

  • Lissy Marlin

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    Originally from the Dominican Republic, illustrator and visual development artist Lissy Marlin studied at the University of the Arts here in Philadelphia, and now resides in the U.S. Inspired by her love of animation, she has developed a lively, breezy style, with lots of springy curves and nice touches of linear and textural elements within…