Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Alexander Creswell
Alexander Creswell is a well known English watercolorist, carrying on in the traditions of the country in which watercolor first reached acceptance as a major art medium. He is noted for his association with British royalty, painting the Windsor Castle Royal Collection fire and restoration in a book Out of the Ashes and traveling as…
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Timur Akhriev
Russian born Timur Akhriev attended middle school and high school at the St. Petersburg Art School. In 1991 he left the politically unstable region near his hometown of Ingushetia, near the border with Chechnya, to join his father, painter Daud Akhriev, in the United States. He now resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he attended the…
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John Anster Fitzgerald
Despite his lack of formal art training, Victorian painter John Anster Fitzgerald became accepted by the Royal Academy, exhibited at the British Institution and established himself as well-known portrait painter and illustrator. However, “Fairy Fitzgerald” earned his nickname as a “fairy painter”, a popular niche genre in Victorian painting that focused on the depictions of…
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James Bama Sketchbook
James Bama is one of America’s primere “Western” artists, though less in the sense that term is usually applied to artists who depict the landscapes of the American West, and more in the tradition of artists like Frederic Remington who portray the people and character types associated with the traditions of the frontier west and…
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Joseph Adolphe
Originally from Calgary, Canada, illustrator and gallery artist Joseph Adolphe now lives and works in Connecticut. His painted illustrations have an immediate, painterly quality that almost seems casual, with paint laid on in dabs and chunks, rough textured backgrounds and a loose, comfortable command of his materials. Many of his illustrations blend drawing and painting,…
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Simone Bingmer
Pastel is a fascinating medium that traverses the boundaries of both drawing and painting. In the hands of portrait artist Simone Bingmer it falls into the latter category, taking on the refined appearance of oil painting, but with a textural surface quality unique to the dry medium. Bingmer lives and works in Cologne, Germany. She…