Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Bogaerts landscape
Bridge in the garden of Versailles, Jan Bogaerts, oil on canvas, roughly 16 x 24 inches (40 x 60 cm). Link is to previous sale page on Simonis & Buunk Fine Art Dealers. (Click on the image on their page for a larger view.) A beautifully idyllic landscape by Dutch painter Jan Bogaerts. Bogaerts, who…
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Rosie Sanders
Rosie Sanders is a contemporary botanical artists whose large scale watercolor paintings of floral and other plant subjects are also in the realm of gallery art. Though she uses the kind of painstakingly detailed watercolor technique that is not uncommon among botanical artists, I think the scale of her paintings is unusual. You can get…
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Eye Candy for Today: Illustration by François Schuiten
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.
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Eugen Jettel
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…
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Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2023!
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…
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Eye Candy for Today: DeCamp’s Blue Mandarin Coat
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.