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  • Frank C. Pape

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    Frank Cheyne Papé was an English illustrator active in the early 20th century. He worked in both monochrome and color. His style varied from naturalistic to fantastic to comic, and he sometimes mixed those approaches within a series of illustrations for a single volume. Papé is not as well known as many of his contemporaries…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Constable graphite drawing

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    View of Cat Hanger, John Constable Graphite on paper, roughly 8 x 14″ (20 x35 cm), in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. Drawn on two sheets of a sketchbook, this scene is of a farm on an estate in West Sussex, England. Constable’s nuanced command of tones and delicate indications of clouds…

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2019!

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    As has become my tradition every December 31st for the last 13 years, I’ll wish Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with some of J.C. Leyendecker’s wonderful Saturday Evening Post New Years covers. American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker set our modern conception of representing the new year as a baby, with the use of…

  • Berthe Morisot

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    Berthe Morisot (pronunciation here) is one of the least well known of the original Impressionist painters. She is often grouped with American painter Mary Cassatt as one of the two “female Impressionists”. It is a comparison that makes sense, though, in that both painters brought intimate domestic scenes into the Impressionist canon, as well as…

  • J.C. Leyendecker cover illustration for American Weekly

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    Cover illustration for American Weekly, December 19, 1948; J.C. Leyendecker Link is to Heritage Auctions sold lots. Accessing the full high-res image requires a free account, but there is a somewhat smaller version on Tumblr here. At first I thought that this was Leyendecker’s take on the popular song, “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”,…

  • Peder Mønsted winter landscape

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    Snowy Forest Road in Sunlight, Peder Mørk Mønsted The link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons from which you can download a high-resolution image. The original is in a private collection. A beautiful evocation of winter to mark the Winter Solstice. I love how much green and red Monsted has worked into the painting.…