Category: Pen & Ink
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Larsson domestic interior
When the Children have Gone to Bed, Carl Larsson, ink and watercolor, roughly 12 x 17 inches (32 x 43 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the NatinalMuseum, Stockholm. Another of Carl Larsson’s wonderful ink and watercolor domestic scenes. This was part of a series called “A Home”, based…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tenniel’s Jabberwock
The Jabberwock, John Tenniel, pen and ink. I don’t know the size or location of the original drawing. Link is to the image page on Wikipedia, which in turn links to a very high resolution image (11.62 mb). John Tenniel’s beautifully iconic illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s books have never been equaled for their visual charm…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jean-Pierre Gibrat comics panel
Quai de Valmy, Flight of the Raven, Jean-Pierre Gibrat; ink, watercolor and gouache on paper; roughly 25 x 20 inches ( 65 x 51 cm). Link is to listing on Christie’s auction, where the original art sold for almost 44,000 Euros (roughly $46,000). The listing desctiption is in Franch; (Google Translate to English here). This…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth Esty Organ advertisement ink drawing
Advertisment for Esty Residence Pipe Organ, pen and ink illustration by Franklin Booth, as it appeared in the November, 1923 issue of Country Life magazine. I don’t know the dimaneions of the original art. Link is to the Organ Historical Society. Interesting to compare this illustration to another of his for the same company. Who…
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Eye Candy for Today: Giuseppe Zocchi ink drawing
Villa Mancini in the Vicinity of Signa, Giuseppe Zocchi; pen and black in on paper; roughly 11 x 19 inches (28 x 47 cm). In the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. Giuseppe Zocch was an 18th century Italian painter and printmaker active in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hal Foster Prince Valiant strip
A beautiful Hal Foster 1939 Prince Valiant Sunday newspaper comic strip from the glory days of newspaper adventure comics. This is a photo of the original art. It would have been printed in color as a full newspaper page, at a time when newspapers were much larger than the ridiculous size they’ve been reduced to…