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Bok's Singing Tower
It's a ways from the nearest freeway, but you can get there by mostly four-lane roads. So as far as I'm concerned, you have no excuse to miss it if you're anywhere near Orlando, Florida with its Disney...
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A Fine Noel Sickles Illustration
Above is a slightly cropped image of a Noel Sickles (1910-1982) illustration intended for a Life magazine article during World War 2. Sickles was a hugely talented, largely self-taught draftsman who...
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Viewing Nicolai Fechin
For those of you who can get to Seattle by 19 May, consider visiting the Frye Museum which has an exhibit of paintings and drawings by Nicolai Fechin (1881-1955).Fechin's Wikipedia entry is here and I...
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Helen Dryden: From Illustration to Industrial Design
Helen Dryden (1887-1981), according to her Wikipedia entry, spent most of her art school years working to become a landscape painter. And afterwards she shifted to commercial art, becoming a cover...
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Everett Shinn, Who Would Rather Do Theatre
Edward Shinn (1876-1953) was the youngest of New York's famed Ashcan School of realist painters active early in the last century. Biographical information can be found here and here.It seems that...
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Walt Kelly's Pogo Brushwork
The Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly (1913-1973), whose life was cut short at age 60 by diabetes, was beloved by many.I read it some when I was young, but had trouble following it. Plus, I suppose I...
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Bits of Fancy Florida Hotels
It can be fun to visit fancy hotels even if you don't (or can't) pay the fancy fare to stay. We were in Florida the first half of February and did some hotel-crawling while there. Although we didn't...
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Pietro Piccoli's Vaguely Cubist Mediterranean
Paintings by Pietro Piccoli (b. 1954) are usually found in galleries in wealthy, but non-big city places such as Carmel-by-the Sea and Palm Desert in California. That's because his paintings are...
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Mystery Painting
Above is a reference photo I took in December, 2011 at a gallery in Honolulu's Royal Hawaiian hotel. The photo doesn't show it, but the handling of the paint was nicely, skillfully done. It looks like...
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Packards Everywhere
They call it the Antique Car Museum, but it's really mostly about Packards.My wife was getting in a tennis session plus some poolside sunning, and I was at loose ends because those activities aren't...
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Glackens Beyond the Ashcan
William Glackens (1870-1938) was a newspaper artist and painter usually associated with the Ashcan School of artists active in New York City in the early 1900s. His Wikipedia entry has more than the...
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Anglada-Camarasa, Colorful Catalonian
Since the time of Goya, Spanish painters who spent much of their careers in Spain have been usually neglected by art historians and the art public. I think this is unfortunate. (Picasso and Dalí made...
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Seen in Florida
Compared to places I've lived such as Korea and Upstate New York, Seattle has a pretty mild winter. My wife, who lived for many years in California, begs to differ. Seattle's winters feature short...
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Teresa Saia, Best at La Quinta
I don't often go to art shows. From my point of view, most of what I see at them in the way of paintings (my main interest) is mediocre. Plus, the shows I do visit have evolved to become largely...
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Leon Kroll at the Edge of Modernism
Although Abraham Leon Kroll (1884-1974) studied art in Paris when Cubism was about to burst on the scene and many other art isms were in place, he never delved very far into modernism. Art gallery...
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Hard-Edge Fantasy Artists
Nineteenth century academic painting usually took the form of what can be called "hard-edge" art, where subject matter is portrayed in sharp detail. Back in those days, the term used to indicate it was...
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Up Close: Harvey Dunn
Harvey Dunn (1884-1952) was an influential illustrator and teacher perhaps best known for illustrations of action stories, scenes from the Great War and paintings of rural life on the upper plains. His...
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In the Beginning: Claude Monet
The early paintings of Claude Monet (1840-1926) are no deep, dark secret hidden by protectors to preserve his reputation as an early modernist. They can be found in important museums in France and...
View ArticleStape's Practical Painting Blog
For all I know, there must be a mega-gazillion art blogs lurking out there on the Internet. I trip across some when I'm trolling for images to post here. But for better or worse, I usually don't bother...
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Up Close: Mead Schaeffer (1)
This is part of an occasional series dealing with detail images of paintings featuring the brushwork of the artist. Previous posts can be found via the "Up close" topic label link on the sidebar.The...
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