Author: cparker
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Van Gogh “selfies” (Self-portraits #9)
In his short career, spanning just 10 years, Vincent van Gogh painted a remarkable series of self-portraits, chronicling not only his evolution as a painter, but his often troubled emotional states. For a more complete list, see this page on Wikipedia.
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Eye Candy for Today: Jakob Schmutzer wash drawing
Landscape with a ruin near Mödling, Jakob Matthias Schmutzer Brown and grey ink, black chalk. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hi-res version here (1.7mb).
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Neil Welliver
Neil Welliver was an American artist who began his career in the middle of the 20th century as an abstract color field painter, and gradually moved into realism. He kept some aspects of modernist painting theory incorporated in his approach, however, and his large scale watercolor landscapes are composed of areas of relatively flat color,…
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2014!
As I’ve done every year since 2006, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with more New Years babies from the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, by the great American illustrator, J.C. Leyendecker. Lots of great art in the year to come!
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Turner & the Sea
The great English landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, known rightfully as “the painter of light”, may just as well be called a painter of seascapes — so often did he return to the subjects of ships and the sea. Turner portrayed the sea in all of its moods, but preferred his seas shaken and…
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Gustaf Tenggren (update)
Like his fellow illustrator and predecessor on Bland Tomtar och Troll (Among Elves and Trolls), John Bauer, Swedish-American illustrator Gustaf Tenggren doesn’t get the recognition he deserves, even among aficionados of Golden Age illustration. Ironically, Tenggren is probably better known for his later, very different style, in which he illustrated The Poky Little Puppy, than…