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  • Elzie Golden

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    Elzie Ray Golden studied at the School of Visual Art in NY and the University of Arizona. During his military service he was a soldier-artist, documenting his experiences and eventually training other soldier-artists and joint services multimedia illustrators. I can only find a few sources for his work, and no information about him post military…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Whittredge’s Trout Pool

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    The Trout Pool, Worthington Whittredge In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. One of the younger generation of the Hudson River School painters, Whittredge often favored intimate forest scenes as much as large dramatic landscapes. Here, through the framing device of the dark mature trees, their leafy canopy and the fallen log, we are invited to…

  • Richard Anderson

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    Like a stage magician, concept artist and illustrator Richard Anderson deals in suggestion and illusion. With an adept skill for suggesting complexity within simplicity, Anderson pulls from his arrays of geometric, semi-abstract forms the essence of an image, leaving your own imagination to fill in with details that don’t actually exist in the original. His…

  • How It’s Made — Oil Paints

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    Someone has posted to YouTube a short (four minute) segment from the Discovery Channel about how commercial oil paints are formulated and manufactured. I don’t know how old this video is — it looks like it’s from a while back — still interesting, though. It should be noted that this is about a large art…

  • Paul Gustave Fischer

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    Danish painter Paul Gustave Fischer, active during the late 19th and early 20 centuries, was noted for his urban scenes, many of them set in the light of overcast days, rainy or snowy conditions, with soft edges, muted colors and restrained value ranges. He painted frequently in Copenhagen, as well as in Paris, Florence and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Clarkson Stanfield’s Mount St Michael

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    Mount St Michael, Cornwall, Clarkson Stanfield On Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the National Gallery of Victoria. Stanfield drew on his eight years as a sailor to create this scene in which he has set the offshore island in the midst of a tempest. Along with a number of…