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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • The Linosaurus

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    The Linosaurus is a fascinating blog devoted to “…the lesser Gods and Goddesses of linoleum and woodblock printing”. In it, the author, a blogger in the Netherlands (who I identifed as “Gerrie Caspers”, inferred from the URL of the blog and his email address) selects printmakers both old and contemporary, known and unknown, and features…

  • John Bonner

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    I came across the work of John Bonner through his Comic Crits — book reviews in the form of comic strips (see my previous post on Comic Crits). Unfortunately the images of his work in his online gallery are frustratingly small, given the relatively large scale of his work. You can find somewhat larger images…

  • Rajesh Sawant

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    Rajesh Sawant is a painter based in the city of Nasik, near the western coast of India. His work is known to Americans primarily through art competitions from RayMar Art and Canvoo, and exposure in magazines like International Artist. Sawant works in acrylic and watercolor. His primary subjects are portraits and townscapes. In both, he…

  • Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered

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    In a letter to his brother Theo in 1882, Vincent van Gogh wrote: “Do you know an American periodical called Harper’s Monthly Magazine? – there are marvellous sketches in it. I don’t know it very well, I’ve only seen six months of it and have only 3 issues myself, but there are things in it…

  • Claude Verlinde

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    Claude Verlinde is a French painter who works in the vein of “fantastic realism”, sometimes called “magic realism”, and his work shows the lineage of fantastical art from Bruegel and Bosch to the Surrealists and contemporary magic realists. I would also suspect that a number of the Surrealists, and certainly contemporary magic realists, were influenced…

  • Stephen Hannock

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    Stephen Hannock’s glowing, atmospheric landscapes of sweeping valleys show the influence his admiration for 19th Century painter Thomas Cole. This is particularly evident in his painting with the rather cumbersome title: “The Oxbow: After Church, After Cole, Flooded (Flooded River for the Matriarchs E. & A. Mongan), Green Light” (images above, top with detail) that…