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  • Artists’ views of Venice #2

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    This is a follow up to my previous article on Artists’ views of Venice, just to add more artists without an ungainly long string of images. It could have been five times as long. [Images above (links to my articles): JMW Turner (with detail), John Singer Sargent, Anna Richards Brewster, James Whistler, William Merritt Chase,…

  • Artists’ views of Venice

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    Venice is a city from another time, and perhaps even from another world. Seeming to exist in sheer defiance of the intrusion of rising sea levels, sinking pilings, floods of tourists and the looming mountains of monstrous cruise ships, Venice is a shimmering mirage of transcendent beauty, an example of what’s possible when a city…

  • R. Kikuo Johnson

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    Originally from Hawaii, R. Kikuo Johnson is an illustrator and comics artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His illustration clients include Apple, Random House, Penguin Books, Marvel Comics, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and the New York times, among others. Johnson maybe best known for his wonderful covers for The New Yorker.…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Waterhouse’s Mariana in the South

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    Mariana in the South, John William Waterhouse; oil on canvas, roughly 45 x 29 inches (114 x 74 cm); link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in a private collection. John William Waterhouse — who is often described as a Pre-Raphaelite painter, but might be more accurately, if awkwardly, classified as a Post Pre-Raphaelite —…

  • Birge Harrison

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    Lowell Birge Harrison was an American landscape painter, active the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was associated with the Tonalist school and was noted for the play of light in his winter landscapes and atmospheric cityscapes. He studied initially at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, while Thomas Eakins was teaching there,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Hiroshi Yoshida watercolor

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    Autumn in a Japanese Village, Hiroshi Yoshida; watercolor on paper, roughly 13 x 20 in. (33 x 50 cm); link to image is on Ukiyo-e Search; I don’t know the location of the original. Hiroshi Yoshida was a Japanese artist active the early to mid 20th century. He is known primarily for his extraordinarily beautiful…