Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Anton Pieck’s The Roof Painter
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…
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Ernst Grillhiesl (“ErnstG”)
Ernst Grillhiesl, who signs his work “ErnstG”, is a contemporary German painter who works in watercolor. His landscape subjects usually include architectural elements, often set almost on the horizon with a deep but de-emphasized foreground. Grillhiesl’s style is a combination of crisp, precise rendering of buildings and other artificial objects and a looser, somewhat softer…
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Eye Candy for Today: Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also sometimes called “Woman in Gold” or “Lady in Gold”), Gustav Klimt; gold leaf, silver leaf, and oil on canvas; 55 x 55 inches (140 x 140 cm); in the collection of the Neue Galerie, New York. Link is to the file page for the Neue Galerie version of the…
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Charles Leickert (revisited)
Belgian born 19th century painter Charles Henri Joseph Leickert spent most of his career living and painting in the Netherlands. He is noted for his winter scenes, particularly of activity on frozen rivers, and his cityscapes, rich with the textures of brick and stone. When I first featured Leickert on Lines and Colors back in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Robert Spear Dunning still life
Still life with Orange and Plum, Robert Spear Dunning; oil on canvas, roughly 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm); link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons; as far as I know, the original is in a private collection. 19th century American painter Robert Spear Dunning gives us an elegantly simple painting of…
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Adrian Tomine
Originally from California, Adrian Tomine is an illustrator and cartoonist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Tomine has taken to his adopted city so well that he has become a reader favorite contributor to the New Yorker. His New Yorker covers, as well as many of his other illustrations and drawings, have that wonderful combination…