Author: cparker
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Edwin Austin Abbey (revisited)
Edwin Austin Abbey, who I first wrote about in 2006, was an American painter, illustrator and muralist who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born here in Philadelphia, Abbey studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He did a series of highly regarded murals and other artworks for the…
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Eye Candy for Today: William McGregor Paxton’s House Maid
The House Maid, William McGregor Paxton; oil on canvas, roughly 30 x 25 inches (76 x 64 cm); in the Corcoran Collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. The museum’s page has both zoomable and downloadble high-resolution images. You can also access the high resolution image from this page on Wikimedia Commons. Exquisite.
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Johan Egerkrans
Johan Egerkrans is a Swedish illustrator and writer — parmarily of children’s books. Egerkrans has a wonderful touch with dragons and monsters. I particularly enjoy the energetic semi-cartoony style with which he portrays dinosaurs. Egerkrans’ work often carries of echoes of classic Swedish illustrators, particularly John Bauer (e.g. images above, bottom). His webstore features signed…
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Eye Candy for Today: Virginia Frances Sterrett illustration
Rosalie saw before her eyes a tree of marvellous beauty, illustration from Rosalie’s Tree, Virginia Frances Sterrett Image is sourced from this blog post from Jack Guignol. For more, see my previous post on Virginia Frances Sterrett.
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Antonietta Brandeis
Antonietta Brandeis (AKA Antonie Brandeisová) was an Austrian/Hungarian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She studied at the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, and is most recognized for her paintings of that extraordinary city.
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Eye Candy for Today: Gerrit Dou’s A Woman playing a Clavichord
A Woman playing a Clavichord, Gerrit Dou, oil on panel, roughly 15 x 12 inches (38 x 300 cm); image is from Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the collection of the Dulwich Picture Gallery. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project, but it’s quite dark, as is the one on…