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  • George Loftus Noyes

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    George Loftus Noyes was an American painter, born in Canada of American parents, who started painting at an early age, and became a noted landscape painter in the Boston area just after the turn of the 20th Century. Noyes studied with English artist George Bartlett in Boston, and later studied in Paris at the ateliers…

  • Richard Amsel

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    Well known for his film posters in the 1970’s and 80’s, illustrator Richard Amsel started his career early when he won a contest to illustrate the poster for Barbara Streisand’s Hello Dolly while he was still a student at the Philadelphia College of Art (now The University of the Arts) here in Philadelphia. He soon…

  • William Degouve de Nuncques

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    William Degouve de Nuncques was a French-born Belgian Symbolist painter. He was self-taught, though his style was influenced friends and roommates Jan Toorop and Henry de Groux. His art was particularly shaped by his contact with the group of Symbolist poets to whom he was introduced by Juliette Massin, also an artist, who he married…

  • MicroVisions 4

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    MicroVisions is an auction, now in its fourth year, in support of the Society of Illustrators scholarship fund. The auction is organized by Irene Gallo, the well known art director at Tor Books and author of the excellent blog, The Art Department, along with illustrator Dan Dos Santos (see my posts on Irene Gallo, Tor…

  • Studio Spaces

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    For some reason, I just love to look at the studios and workspaces of artists, designers and other “creative” workers. In part, I suppose there is a thought that one might get usable ideas form the way others have arranged their work area; but mostly I think it’s just curiosity and the vaguely inspirational nature…

  • Paint the Parks 2009

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    Paint the Parks 2009 it the third installment of an annual competition sponsored by PaintAmerica, a non-profit association ‘devoted to providing opportunities for artists all across America”. They sponsor two artist competitions, PaintAmerica Top100, which happens in the fall, and Paint the Parks100, for which the call for entries deadline is May 31, 2009. The…