Author: cparker
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The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection is a relatively small museum in New York, housed in the former mansion of Henry Clay Frick, and displaying the artworks collected by him and his daughter, Helen Clay Frick. The collection, though not as extensive as those of larger museums, has the density of an expensive fruitcake, with so many yummy…
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Pete Scully
One of the things that art does best it to make the ordinary extraordinary. By focusing attention on commonplace objects artists can reveal them in ways that make us see them anew. I was amused and delighted by Pete Scully’s series of 50 drawings of fire hydrants, standpipes, water tanks, meters and even a water…
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Degas Drawings at the Morgan Library and Museum
Unlike his fellow members of the inner circle of French Impressionism, who largely eschewed drawing for the more immediate direct application of paint, Edgar Degas put great emphasis on drawing. He was, to my mind, one of the greatest proponents of draftsmanship of the late 19th Century, creating a great many striking drawings in pastel,…
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Nate Greco
As an adolescent and teenager I was taken with the wild art and illustration associated with mid-1960’s hot rod and “Kalifornia Kustom Kar Kulture” (see my post on Big Daddy Roth), so I was immediately delighted with Nate Greco’s take on the same from the vantage point of a couple of generations later. Greco is…
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Frederick Cayley Robinson
I came across Frederick Cayley Robinson by chance, and unfortunately missed the dates of the recent exhibit at the National Gallery in London that brought some attention to this otherwise little known painter and illustrator. The National Gallery exhibition focused on the best known of Robinson’s works, a series of four large scale paintings created…
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Even more Leyendecker wonderfulness, in high resolution no less
Wow. Good week for J.C. Leyendecker fans. If my post last Sunday about the Leyendecker studies on David Apatoff’s Illustration Art blog weren’t enough, we now have a wonderful post about J.C. Leyendecker by illustrator Scott Anderson, in which he posts a number of images of a few Leyendecker originals that he had the opportunity…