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Category: Pen & Ink

  • Russell Stutler

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    You will often find information about pen and ink drawing, and there is certainly a a plethora of information about watercolor, but you seldom see mention of the meeting of the two. Born in Japan, raised in the U.S. and now living in Tokyo, Russell Stutler is an artist who has a fascinating site devoted…

  • Thomas Nast

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    Thomas Nast has been called the father of American political cartooning, and rightly so. He is responsible for the initial portrayal of the Republican and Democratic parties as elephant and donkey and created the familiar image of Uncle Sam to represent the US as a whole (with a little help from English illustrator Sir John…

  • Rembrandt Drawings and Prints at the Met & Morgan

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    A friend just reminded me that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is also honoring Rembrandt’s 400th birthday (see my post from last Saturday) with a special show drawn from their collection: Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings and Prints (July 11 – Oct 15, 2006). If you’re in range of New York, this…

  • Joe Ciardiello

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    Sometimes there is a fine line, if you’ll excuse the expression, between drawing and painting. Illustrator Joe Ciardiello manages to walk on both sides of that line at will by developing his color work out of his black and white drawing style. His black and white drawings have a wonderfully loose and lively line quality,…

  • Aubrey Beardsley

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    For an artist intimately fascinated with line, Aubrey Beardsley walked many of them himself. He walked a line between sickness and health, suffering from tuberculosis as a child and facing repeated bouts of ill-health before succumbing to it at the age of 25. His ink drawings, illustrations and prints walked the line between drawing, design…

  • Howard Pyle

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    If we look at art over the course of time, we see an intricate web of the influences of one artist on another; influences that, in their crossings and re-crossings, eventually weave the tapestry of styles that we call art history. Howard Pyle, who is often rightly called “The Father of American Illustration”, is one…