Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Francois Bouçher chalk drawing
Male Nude, Francois Bouçher; red chalk over black chalk on paper; roughly 20 x 13 inches ( 50 x 33 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. There are both zoomable and downloadable imges on their site. 18th century French artist Francois Bouçher, who is more commonly noted for his Rococo…
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Edward Okuń
Considered both a Symbolist and Art Nouveau painter, Edward Okuń was a Polish artist who studied in Poland, German and France. He lived and worked in Rome for 20 years, and traveled widely in other parts of Europe before returning to Poland in the later part of his career. He was active in the late…
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Eye Candy for Today: Eugen von Blaas genre painting
The Italian seamstress, Eugen von Blaas; oil on canvas; roughly 16 x 12 in. (50 x 32 cm). Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons from which there is link to a large image. The image was originally sourced from a Bonham’s past auction, so I assume the painting is now in a private collection.…
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Peter Jablokow
Peter Jablokow is a watercolor painter from Illinois with a particular fascination for industrial forms, often weathered and rusted, which he renders with a feeling for texture as well as color and values. Many of his paintings use dramatic compositions with severe perspective and unusual angles of view. In some cases the entire composition is…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth Esty Organ advertisement ink drawing
Advertisment for Esty Residence Pipe Organ, pen and ink illustration by Franklin Booth, as it appeared in the November, 1923 issue of Country Life magazine. I don’t know the dimaneions of the original art. Link is to the Organ Historical Society. Interesting to compare this illustration to another of his for the same company. Who…
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Charlie Hunter (update)
We are spoiled by color. It’s everwhere we look, bright colors to attract our attention. Many contemporary painters make a point of using bright, vibrant colors to do just that. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but often we miss noticing the other characteristics of painting that we take for granted. Charlie Hunter is a…