Author: cparker
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John Anthony Park
John Anthony Park was British landscape painter active in the early to middle part of the 20th century. He focused largely on scenes in involving water, seascapes, harbor scenes, rivers and small streams. Water was a subject he handled quite adeptly, with attention to reflections, surface effects and characteristics of flow.
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Veronese Adorations
Paolo Veronese: Adoration of the Magi and Adoration of the Shepherds. Two beautiful paintings by 16th century master Paolo Veronese, though the kings seem to get a lot more attention here than the shepherds (much as in life, I suppose). Veronese did several paintings of the adorations; these are both from the Basilica dei Santi…
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J. C. Leyendecker’s wide awake Santa
Well, here’s something I didn’t know: coffee perks you up! — at least, according to this ad from the December 16, 1940 issue of Life magazine, delightfully illustrated by J. C. Leyendecker. Apparently, Santa is WIDE AWAKE in this ad from the Pan American coffee producers. This is an advertisement for coffee in general, rather…
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Eye Candy for Today: Stepan Kolesnikoff Winter Landscape
Winter Landscape, Stepan Kolesnikoff, gouache on card, roughly 20 x 26 in (50 x 65 cm). Link is to a 2019 auction result on Christie’s (large image here). I assume the painting is currently in a private collection. Another beautiful snow scene in gouache by the Ukrainian/Rusian painter Stepan Kolesnikoff, who was active in the…
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Arturo Noci
Arturo Noci was an Italian painter active in the early to mid 20th century. He painted landscapes in the Divisionist style, a post-Impressionist style that focused on the separation of colors into individual dots — similar to Pointilism — but that were intended to be blended optically. In the later part of his career, he…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francis Seymour Hayden etching
The Lovers’ Walk, No. 1, Francis Seymour Hayden, etching and drypoint, roughly 9 x 13″ (23 x34 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, look for both download and zoom links under the image. This deceptively simple etching by the British painter and printmaker (active in the late 19th and early 20th…