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  • Eye Candy for Today: Hassam Winter scene

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    Late Afternoon, New York, Winter by Childe Hassam. A marvel of suggestion by a primier American Impressionist. In the Brooklyn Museum. Click “Download”, then pick your size. See my 2006 post on Childe Hassam.

  • The Reward

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    The Reward is a nine minute animated short created by a team of animation students for their Bachelor Class project at The Animation Workshop in Denmark. In addition to being beautifully realized, the story, about two rivals who must learn to cooperate in pursuit of a treasure, is told wordlessly in a demonstration of superb…

  • Xanadu Gallery’s 2013 State of the Art Survey

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    As I reported in my post about their article on How to Ship Paintings, Xanadu Gallery in Arizona features articles about marketing and other topics of interest to artists on their red dot blog. They have just started to post the results from their second annual State of the Art Survey, in which they polled…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Choosing, Watts

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    Dame Alice Ellen Terry (Choosing), George Frederick Watts. On Wikimedia Commons, title page here. Original is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. A little Victorian morality play, choosing between the camellias, which are dramatically beautiful but don’t have a strong scent — representing worldly pursuits, and the violets, more subdued in appearance, but with a…

  • David Cunningham (update)

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    Since I first wrote about painter David H. Cunningham back in 2007, his web presence has been expanded and improved, and his work has continued to evolve, particularly into a new series involving arrangements of stones. My initial impression of his work, however, remains unchanged. Though you may look at reproductions of his paintings and…

  • John F. Francis

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    Though he started his career as a portrait painter, Philadelphia born artist John Francis is primarily known for the still life paintings of his later career. These, mostly of fruit and desserts, varied from complex formal arrangements, sometimes against the backdrop of a partial landscape, to simple compositions of only a few objects. Francis was…