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  • John Atkinson Grimshaw

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    If, like me, you have had access to the same art museum for several years, you have likely developed favorites — works you look forward to seeing again and again as you return to the museum. For me one of these has been a painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art titled Liverpool from Wapping…

  • Pigments through the Ages

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    Pigments through the Ages is a web feature that explores artists’ pigments and their history in a series of brief, interconnected articles. From the navigation at page top you can Choose a Pigment, though I found it more informative to Browse Colors, as that gives you an overview of the limited list of pigments included…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2012!

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    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve for the past six years, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year! In addition to crystalizing our popular image of Santa Claus (see my recent post), the great American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker originated the contemporary concept of representing the new year as…

  • Virgil Finlay (update)

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    A recent comment from a reader on a post I did back in 2006 reminded me that I haven’t written for some time about the great science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator Virgil Finlay. Though he worked in a variety of media, both in color and in black and white, Finlay is noted primarily for…

  • Kawase Hasui (update)

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    Like his contemporary, Hiroshi Yoshida, Kawase Hasui was a renowned woodblock print artist of the Shin hanga, or “new prints” movement in early 20th Century Japan. Also like Yoshida, Hasui traveled extensively and produced images of a variety of locations, though not as much outside of Japan as Yoshida. Instead, Hasui sought out remote landscapes…

  • Rembrandt in America

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    While most of the best European art has remained in Europe, which is as it should be, a good deal has made its way into museums and collections in the U.S. and elsewhere, much to the delight of those who have access to it. An exhibition currently at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Rembrandt…