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JJ Shannon's Portrait Art
James Jebusa Shannon (1862-1923) was born in New York State, the child of Irish immigrants. The family moved to Canada a few years later, and when Shannon's artistic abilities became obvious he was...
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The Golden Years: John La Gatta
One of the most successful American illustrators of the 1930s was John La Gatta (1894-1977). His last name is also rendered as LaGatta, the way it usually seemed to appear in his distinctive signature...
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Brian Cook: Illustrator and Parliament Member
The poster-like illustration above is probably book cover or poster art by Brian Caldwell Cook Batsford (1910-1991), something apparently innovative in its day and now considered collectible.A brief...
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New Robert McGinnis Book
This is the cover of a recently published book about illustrator Robert McGinnis (1926- ) and his works.And this is another book dealing with McGinnis by the same author that was published in 2001. I...
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Edward Cucuel's Lounging Women in White
Edward Cucuel (1875-1954) was born and died in California. But his parents were German, and he spent much of his career there following training in Paris and flitting back and forth to the States. He...
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Arthur Bowen Davies: Inconsistent Modernist
This post about Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928) is rather brief because I couldn't find many useful examples of his work on the Internet.It seems that Davies, obscure today, was well-known and made a...
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"Art Deco Hawaii" Exhibit
One of Edward Lucie-Smith's many books is titled Art Deco Painting. With all due respect, I find it difficult to class a painting as "Art Deco," though I already conceded that Jean Dupas' works fill...
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Dante Rossetti's Similar Faces of Different Models
One of my posts that's most often linked is this one dealing with Helen of Troy of the Homeric epic. Here is yet another version of Helen.Helen of Troy - 1863The model - Annie Miller, ca. 1860It was by...
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Tokyo's Frank Lloyd Wright Imperial Hotel: My Photos
One of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright's "lost" buildings is his (1923-1967) Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.Actually, it seems that part of it survives at the Meiji-Mura Museum near Nagoya (see the above...
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Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman: Early Pontiac Grand Prix Illustrations
So far as I know when drafting this post, he is still alive and probably illustrating automobiles. That would be Art Fitzpatrick, born in 1920 or maybe a year or two earlier. Although he did automobile...
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What is Art? - Reflections on 2014 Turner Prize Finalists
As happens every fall, the British component of the Art Establishment has spoken. Herein is the 2014 Turner Prize winner and the three other finalists.Duncan Campbell was the winner; the Tate webpage...
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Hans Baluschek: Borderline Political
As his lengthy Wikipedia entry indicates, Hans Baluschek (1870-1935) was a man of the political left who made a career of painting and illustration until the National Socialists took power and...
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Tom Lovell: Illustrator, Personified
Tom Lovell (1909-1997), like many illustrators of his generation, eventually left the trade to become a Fine Arts painter -- in his case, doing western scenes from his Santa Fe, New Mexico base. But...
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Abbott Handerson Thayer's Angelic Paintings
Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921) was a symbolist of sorts, being intensely religious in a strongly non-church way. He was highly opinionated regarding on a number of matters, and as he aged he had...
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Samuel Melton Fisher: Painter Without a Past
Samuel Melton Fisher (1860-1939) was born in London. That's about all I could discover about him via three or four Google screens. Surprising, in a way, because he did paint at least one personage and...
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Leo Putz: The Golden Years
Leo Putz (1869-1940), an Austrian painter who spent most of his career in Germany, did some very interesting work during the ten years or so between 1903 and 1912. Unfortunately for his reputation here...
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Christopher Nevinson: War Pantings
Christopher Richard Wynne (C.R.W.) Nevinson (1889–1946) had a prickly personality, falling into and out of friendships with the likes of Wyndham Lewis and becoming a tad paranoid regarding Slade School...
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Molti Ritratti: Iris Tree
Iris Tree (1897-1968) came from an established English family, and was well-connected socially and with artistic groups. Her brief Wikipedia entry notes that she was "an English poet, actress and...
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How Well Could Picasso Draw?
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), like Rembrandt, is probably still synonymous with "artist" for the general public. As regular readers of this blog probably know, I am not a Picasso fan. I never liked his...
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Charles Constantine Hoffbauer Versatile Franco-American
Charles Hoffbauer (1875-1957) was a French artist who spent much of his career in the United States. A useful summary of his career is here. It mentions that he "enrolled at the École National des...
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