Author: cparker
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Bertha Wegmann
Bertha Wegmann was a Danish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known primarily for her portraits, her subjects also included landscapes, still life and room interiors. She is noted as the first woman chairholder at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She was friends with the Swedish painter Jeanna Bauck,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Giuseppe Zocchi ink drawing
Villa Mancini in the Vicinity of Signa, Giuseppe Zocchi; pen and black in on paper; roughly 11 x 19 inches (28 x 47 cm). In the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. Giuseppe Zocch was an 18th century Italian painter and printmaker active in…
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Joke Frima
Joke Frima is a painter originally from the Netherlands now working and living in France. Her highly refined paintings often are of close views of fruits, flowers, gourds and other plants in their natural state, sort of intimate landscapes or living still life. She also paints more formal still life subjects as well as more…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hal Foster Prince Valiant strip
A beautiful Hal Foster 1939 Prince Valiant Sunday newspaper comic strip from the glory days of newspaper adventure comics. This is a photo of the original art. It would have been printed in color as a full newspaper page, at a time when newspapers were much larger than the ridiculous size they’ve been reduced to…
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Myles Birket Foster
Myles Birket Foster was a British painter, engraver and illustrator active during the mid to late 19th century. He worked primarily in watercolor, as well as engraving and drawing media. He was noted for his landscapes, a subject of his that I run hot and cold on. I like those that focus on the evocation…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Atkinson Grimshaw cityscape
Glasgow Docks, John Atkinson Grimshaw; oil on card, roughly 12 x 20 inches (30 x 50 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons, I don’t know the location of the original. SInce the Wikimedia image was sourced from Bonham’s auctions, I would assume it’s in a private collection. This nicely atmospheric painting by the Victorian era…