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Author: cparker

  • Beleaguered Leyendecker Santa

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    Another wonderful Saturday Evening Post Santa Claus cover by the brilliant American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, who I think played a major role in forming our modern image of the Jolly One. Here, he is portrayed as not so jolly as he fends off the unwanted attention of the house’s stalwart defender, who apparently doesn’t recognize…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Asano Takeji woodblock print

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    Snow at Ginkakuji Temple, Asano Takeji, woodblock print, sheet size 10 x 14 inches (26 x 36 cm); links is to Ukiyo-e Search, large file here. Asano Takeji was a 20th century Japanese printmaker who worked in the manner of both the shin hanga (new prints) and sōsaku hanga (creative prints) schools of woodblock printmaking.…

  • Harold Knight

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    Harold Knight was an English painter active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries, and the husband of noted painter Laura Knight (née Laura Johnson), who he met when both were art students. Harold Knight was known as a portraitist and genre painter. I find his formal portraits of men to be well executed…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted’s Sunlit Winter Landscape

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    Sunlit Winter Landscape, Peder Mørk Mønsted, oil on canvas, 28 x 39 inches (72 x 98 cm); Link is to Bukowski’s auctions, large version can be found here. Another beautiful winter scene Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted, who I count as one of my favorite landscape painters. I love the suggestion of a delicate tracery…

  • Martina Krupičková

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    Martina Krupičková is a czech painter who focuses on landscape and cityscape. Her website is in both Czech and English, with the English paragraphs right after the Czech ones. Krupičková paints with painting knives. By varying her marks, she avoids the uniform sameness I sometimes see in paintings done entirely with a painting knife. She…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Anton Pieck’s The Roof Painter

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    The Roof Painter, Anton Pieck 20th century Dutch illustrator, printmaker and gallery artist Anton Pieck was noted for his charming winter scenes. Here, he shows an artist, perhaps meant to be a representation of Pieck himself, finding a view of the town that requires him to climb to a roof peak. A boy brings him…