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Author: cparker

  • Eye Candy for Today: Illustration by François Schuiten

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    Le panorama de Calvani, François Schuiten, illustration for Le Musée des Ombres by Schuiten & Peters A wonderful illustration by Belgian comics artist François Schuiten who is known for his striking drawings of imaginative architecture. From this page on the Alta Plana website.

  • Eugen Jettel

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    Eugen Jettel was an Austrian landscape painter active in the late 19th century. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and lived in Paris for several years, where he was part of a circle of Austrian and German artists living and working in Paris at the time. His landscapes are often of…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2023!

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    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past 17 years, I’ll wish Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with one of J. C. Leyendecer’s New Year’s covers for the Saturday Evening Post, in this case marking the arrival of 1923. American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker first represented the new year as a…

  • Eye Candy for Today: DeCamp’s Blue Mandarin Coat

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    The Blue Mandarin Coat (The Blue Kimono), Joseph Rodefer DeCamp, oil on canvas, roughly 43 x37 in (109 x 94 cm); link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, original is in the High Museum, which also has a zoomable version. There is a somewhat smaller downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons.

  • Adoration of the Shepherds, Gerrit van Honthorst

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    Adoration of the Shepherds, Gerrit (AKA Gerard) van Honthorst; link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. I love this kind of nativity scene, in which the painter has represented the infant as the source of light. Special effects! Van Honthorst was noted for his paintings featuring lighting effects…

  • A Cavalcade of Santas

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    Our image of Santa Claus comes primarily from the interpretations of illustrators over time. Here are a few examples. Despite the fact hat Nast had given Santa his physical form and Reginald Marsh dressed him in the red suit with white cuffs, I think it’s J.C. Leyendecker to whom we owe our most complete contemporary…