Category: Pen & Ink
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Drawings of Andrew Fisher Brunner
Andrew Fisher Brunner was an American artist active in the late 19th century. He is noted for his landcape watercolors and for his drawings, particularly those in pen and ink. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a nice collection of his drawings, visible online in reasonably large images. Many of these are of Venice. He…
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Bing image search vs. Google, Yahoo & Tin Eye
As you might imagine, in the course of writing Lines and Colors I do a fair bit of searching out art images on the web — whenever possible searching for the largest examples of images of artwork that I can find. One of the ways I do this is to use the “image search” features…
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Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson was one of America’s great “Golden Age” illustrators, and one of its finest proponents of pen and ink illustration. He is particularly known for his drawings of the “Gibson Girl”, an idealized example of what at the time was becoming known as the “New Woman”. The Gibson Girl became a symbol of…
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Jean-Pierre Gibrat
Jean-Pierre Gibrat is a French comics artist and writer noted for his graphic historical novels set during wartimes in France. He gained the attention of American readers of European comics with the translated version of his 2002-2005 graphic novel, Flight of the Raven, set in Paris during the WWII occupation. The book is beautiful, filled…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jacob de Gheyn pen drawing
Chestnut Tree with some trees around it, Jacob de Gheyn (II) Ink and chalk drawing, roughly 15 x 10 inches (36 x 25 cm), in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, which has a zoomable version on the website. You can download high-res images if you get a free Rijksstudio account. Dutch painter and printmaker jacob…
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Hendrick Goltzius, The Resurrection
The Resurrection, from The Passion of Christ, Hendrik Goltzius, Engraving, roughly 8 x 5 inches (20 x 13 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hendrick Goltzius was a German born Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Among his other accomplishments was a folio…