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  • Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson

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    Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson was an American painter, active in the late 19th century, who was born in Philadelphia and studied there at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as well as in Paris where she spent a notable portion of her career. Her style and subject matter ranged from influences of French neo-classical…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Early Autumn, Montclair by George Inness

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    Early Autumn, Montclair, George Inness The link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a high-resolution downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Delaware Art Museum (which unfortunately doesn’t have its collection online, though there is more on the Google Art Project). This is one of my…

  • Yuko Shimizu (update)

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    Yuko Shimizu is an illustrator who I first profiled in 2007, mentioned again in 2010, and featured prominently in the article I wrote on contemporary illustrators for the Summer 2013 issue of Drawing Magazine. Shimizu (not to be confused with the Japanese designer with the same name who created “Hello Kitty”) is orignally from Japan…

  • Francis Seymour Hayden

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    Francis Seymour Hayden was a successful surgeon, and also a dedicated and influential etcher. Active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Hayden was already an etcher when James McNeill Whistler became his brother-in-law. Hayden was enthusiastic in his studies of past paster of printmaking, so much so that created an noted catalogue of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Wyeth drybrush & watercolor

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    Flat Boat, Andrew Wyeth Watercolor and drybrush, roughly 22 x 29 inches (56 x 74 cm). Image and link is from a 2013 Christie’s auction sale. While I don’t always respond as strongly to his more formal and conceptual works, I very much like Andrew Wyeth’s watercolors and drybrush watercolors, in which he is just…

  • Self-portraits #14

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    Another in my series of posts of artists’ self-portraits. The series started when I got tired of hearing about “selfies”, and came out with an attitude of “You want selfies? I show you some selfies!”, but gradually relaxed into an ongoing series based on variety. (Images above, links to my posts: Ivan Shishkin, Laura Johnson…