Clik here to view.
Wallace Morgan - Black and White Illustration
Wallace Morgan (1873-1948, some sources have his birth in 1875) had a successful career making drawings for publication. A Smithsonian link about him is here, his Wikipedia entry here, and a link to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pierre Mourgue, Fashion Illustrator
Pierre Mourgue (1890-1969) was an important French fashion illustrator. Some biographical information is here. Much of his work was published in Condé Nast's Vogue Magazine's French, British,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Maxwell Armfield, Tempera Painter
Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1881-1972) didn't always paint using tempera, but according to his Wikipedia entry, "In 1946 Armfield released the book 'Tempera Painting Today', published by Pentagon Press."...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Queen Elizabeth II: Multi Ritratti by Edward Halliday
Edward Irvine Halliday (1902-1984), biographical information here, is not well-known today, but had a long career as a painter of portraits and murals. Among his portrait subjects was Queen Elizabeth...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Harry Everett Townsend, War Artist
Harry Everett Townsend (1879–1941) was a painter and illustrator best known today for his work as a war artist in the Great War. His Wikipedia entry is here, and David Apatoff discusses him here. I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jean Pagès, fashion Illustrator
Jean Pagès (1903-1976), according to this web site, received architectural training before becoming a fashion illustrator. Most of his work was for Condé Nast publications. Like other fashion...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Léon Bonnat
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (1833-1921) "was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor at the École des Beaux Arts" according to his Wikipedia entry. Born in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Félix Ziem, Yet Another Painter of Venice
Félix Ziem (né Félix-Francois Georges Philibert Ziem: 1821-1911) was a financially successful artist, according to his Wikipedia entry. His initial training was in architecture, which might help...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Carroll Beckwith, American Painter
James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), as noted here, studied under Carolus Duran "who in 1877 selected Beckwith and John Singer Sargent to help him with a mural for the Palais du Luxembourg." So he had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Louis Fancher, Illustrator
Louis Fancher (1884-1944), Wikipedia entry here, seems to have experienced a career peak in the 1910s decade if Internet images of his work are any clue. Of course his career lasted longer, but his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Paul Gerding, Automobile Advertising Illustrator
Paul Gerding (1895-1983) made a number of very nice illustrations for automobile advertisements, especially in the late 1920s to mid-1930s. He did other work, but I found little of it on Internet...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Edwin Lord Weeks, American Orientalist
Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) had wealthy parents and so was able to study art and visit exotic places. His Wikipedia entry notes:"In 1872 Weeks relocated to Paris, becoming a pupil of Léon Bonnat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
George Frederic Watts: Some Portraits
George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was an important 19th century British artist, as is noted here. Among many other things, that Wikipedia entry mentions: "He was also admired as a portrait painter....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bartow Van Voorhis Matteson - 1920s Illustrator
Bartow Van Voorhis Matteson (1894-1984) was an illustrator active in the 1920s who might have transitioned to Fine Arts later during his long life. I can find virtually no biographical details about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anastasia Vostrezova, Painter of the Ballet
Anastasia Vostrezova, born 1981, is a Russian representational painter known for her depictions of ballet dancers. A brief biographical note is here, and more information is here. Vostrezova is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Didier Graffet, French Steampunk Illustrator
Didier Graffet, born 1970, is a French painter/illustrator specializing in Steampunk and fantasy subjects. Some background regarding him is here. As best I can tell, most artists of that genre...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More Konstantin Korovin Paintings
I last wrote about Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (1861-1939) here. His Wikipedia entry is here. He painted in a painterly (visible brushstroke), Impressionist style both in the Russian phase of his...
View ArticleBlogging Notice
Note to regular readers: I have written more than 1,500 Art Contrarian posts since 2010. I am about to turn 84 years old, and no longer follow the art world except casually. That means I'm finding it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Louis Buisseret, 1920s Belgian Realist
Louis Buisseret (1888 - 1956), Wikipedia entry here, was not a major artist, being employed for 20 years as a provincial art academy administrator. The peak of his career seems to have been in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sculpture-Augmented Frescoes at Würzburg Residenz
Last summer (2023) I toured Würzburg's Residenz, the palace of the Prince-Bishop when the area was a unit of the Holy Roman Empire. Its Wikipedia entry is here. Its artistic highlights regarding...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More on Vadim Voitekhovitch's Steampunk World
Vadim Voitekhovitch (1963 - ), born in what is now Belarus, moved to Germany in 2004. He mostly paints Steampunk scenes of apparently fictional Hanseatic area port cities. Some Steampunk views are of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some Very Early Jon Whitcomb Illustrations
Jon Whitcomb (1906–1988) was an illustrator best remembered for depictions of glamorous women. I wrote about him here and here. Some biogrphiacal information is here. When writing those earlier...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MSC Cruise Ship's Streamlined Front End
I was at Malta's Grand Harbour recently (May, 2024) and noticed a large cruise ship with an unusually-streamlined "G-shape" front end. That ship was MSC line's World Europa that entered service in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Multi Ritratti: Mary Robinson "Perdita"
My "Multi Ritratti" posts that present multiple portraits of the same subject -- usually by more than one artist -- are of people who are well-known. Well, nearly all were well-known subjects at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Up Close: William Orpen's Adrian Carton de Wiart
Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen (1878-1931), Wikipedia entry here, is perhaps best-known for his portrait work and Grear War related paintings. Combining those was a series of sketch-portraits of...
View Article