Author: cparker
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Ivan Pokhitonov
Active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Ivan Pavlovitch Pokhitonov was a Russian/Ukrainian painter who spent the greater part of his career living and working in France and Belgium. Though he also painted portraits and still life, he is noted for his landscapes. Influenced by the French and Belgian painters around him, Pokhitonov’s…
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Thomas Mostyn
Thomas Edwin Mostyn was a British painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though he also painted portraits, figures and landscapes of specific locations, he is known primarily for his invented landscapes of idyllic gardens. These were often painted with high chroma passages, broken color and short brush stokes in the Impressionist…
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Brent Lynch
Brent Lynch is a Canadian artist who transitioned from a successful 20 year plus career in illustration to the full time pursuit of gallery art and plein air painting. To my eye, Lynch’s paintings are often focused on the interplay of warm and cool colors — intense blues and greens in dynamic balance with deep,…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Lathrop etching
An Evening Walk, William Langson Lathrop Etching and drypoint, roughly 18 x 15 inches (45 x37 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable images. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project. Lathrop was one of the group of painters active in the…
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Jean-Pierre Gibrat
Jean-Pierre Gibrat is a French comics artist and writer noted for his graphic historical novels set during wartimes in France. He gained the attention of American readers of European comics with the translated version of his 2002-2005 graphic novel, Flight of the Raven, set in Paris during the WWII occupation. The book is beautiful, filled…
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Heinrich Berann’s panoramic map paintings
Heinrich Caesar Berann was a painter and cartographer from the mountainous region of Tyrol, Austria. In the latter part of the 20th century, he was commissioned by the U.S. National Park Service to create panoramic map paintings of several of our national parks. These are available online as fairly large images on Wikimedia Commons, at…