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Author: cparker

  • Sargent and Impressionism

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    John Singer Sargent was American by birth, but spent most of his career and adult life in England and Europe. In 1884 he exhibited his painting called Madame X at the Salon in Paris. Though famous now, the painting became the subject of scandal at the time, a kind of attention that Sargent didn’t relish,…

  • William Stout: Inspirations

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    I am unabashed in my enthusiasm for the work of William Stout, and I’ve written about him previously several times here on Lines and Colors (links below). In particular, I take great delight in his beautiful drawings in pen and ink with watercolor. I’ve been looking forward to the release of William Stout: Inspirations from…

  • Chris Turnham (update)

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    The good new is that since I last wrote about Chris Turnham back in 2006 his website has been updated with more of his wonderfully graphic, superbly designed and beautifully colored illustrations. The bad news is that, for reasons that continue to elude me, they are displayed in a “pop-up-and-close” style navigation from a scrolling…

  • Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time

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    Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time is the title of an exhibition currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The exhibition focuses on realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, a time when European Modernism was becoming a dominant force in the art world, pushing realism into…

  • Mailbag Art Museum (Sarah Musi)

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    Sarah Musi, an illustrator and comics artist based in Washington State, has come up with one of those “don’t you wish you had thought of it” ideas, and recently embarked on a project she calls “mailbag art museum“. In August of this year Musi created a list of her “favorite artists in the whole wide…

  • Vasili Nechitailo

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    Like many of his contemporaries, Vasili (or Vasliy) Nechitailo, a Russian painter active in the middle of the 20th Century, is not well known outside of his homeland. One reason for this is that little in the way of cultural exchange was allowed during the era of Soviet Russia. Nechitailo studied at the Krasnodar Art…