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Author: cparker

  • Dominick Saponaro

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    Dominick Saponaro is an illustrator based here in Philadelphia, whose clients include Simon & Schuster, Holiday House, The Science Fiction Book Club, Solaris Books, and Bethlehem books. When I first viewed his online portfolio, I was struck by a number of digitally painted works in grayscale, reminiscent both in that respect, and in the subject…

  • John Joseph Enneking

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    Born in Ohio, American painter Jon Joseph Enneking studied in Boston and in Europe where he felt the influence of the Fontainebleu painters, and later Edouard Manet and the Impressionists. In Paris, he had the opportunity to study with Charles-Francois Daubigny and Leon Bonnnat. Enneking settled in Massachusetts where he devoted himself largely to landscapes…

  • Eye Candy for Today: De Hooch courtyard

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    A Musical Party in a Courtyard, Pieter de Hooch In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. Another of De Hooch’s wonderful explorations of space and light, into which we are irresistibly drawn. Here, De Hooch invites us into a foreground space that, at first glance,…

  • My new post on Virgil Finlay for Tor.com

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    I’m happy to report that I’ve contributed my second post to the Tor.com website. I wrote for them on May on the Fleisher Superman Cartoons. In the new article, The Dark and Light of Virgil Finlay, I give an overview of the great science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator who had such an impact on…

  • Old Masters, Newly Acquired at the Morgan

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    Old Masters, Newly Acquired is an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York that showcases recent additions to their terrific collection of master drawings. You can get an idea of the scope of the show from the brochure preview on the museum’s page for the exhibit. There is also a selection of…

  • Dennis Wojtkiewicz (update)

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    Since I first wrote about Ohio painter Dennis Wojtkiewicz (pronounced voy-KEV-itch) back in 2006, he has continued his large scale explorations of light and texture. These take the form of close ups of the heads of spreading, multi-petaled flowers, radiant with light cascading across their delicately rendered surfaces, and luminous depictions of fruit — unusual…