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Léon Benigni: 'Tween-Wars Fashion Illustrator
Léon Benigni (1892-1948) was one of several fashion-related illustrators whose similar styles helped to visually define the years between the two world wars.Unfortunately, aside from his dates and the...
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I wrote this for a Facebook posting, and thought I might as well post it here and on my Car Style Crtic blog.It was almost exactly 12 years ago that I got involved with blogging. Since then I’ve...
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Frédéric Bazille's Snuffed-Out Career
Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870) was associated with the French Impressionists during the early stages of the movement. He did not participate in the many later Impressionist showings and activities. That...
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André Edouard Marty, Pochoir Illustrator and More
André Edouard Marty (1882-1974) was an École des Beaux-Arts graduate best known for fashion illustration. Two brief biographies are here and here. They both note that Marty was one of four artists...
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More Richard E. Miller Paintings
Richard Edward Miller (1875-1943) painted many pictures of pretty young women in casual settings, often in the American Impressionist style. He often reused the same dresses and other costumes for...
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Jules Adolphe Goupil, Painter of Fabrics
Jules Adolphe Goupil (1839-1883) has little in the way of biographical information on the internet, if my casual Google search was indicative. Two brief links are here and here.Basically, he trained at...
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Dudie Baird, Model
Julia "Dudie" Baird (1872-1932) was a leading artists' model in the 1890s and probably for a while longer. This according to several sources I found on the internet. What is lacking is biographical...
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Jacques de Lalaing: Sculptor Who Painted
Jacques de Lalaing (1858-1917), son of Belgian diplomat Count Maximilien de Lalaing and Bengal-born aristocrat Julie Ann Vibert, was born in London. He moved to Belgium in 1875 to pursue training and a...
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Molti Ritratti: Eleonora Duse
Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) was a famous Italian actress active during the four decades centered on 1900. Her esteem was on the order of that of Sarah Bernhardt. Duse's Wikipedia entry is here.Like...
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Frederick Goodall, British Orientalist
Frederick Goodall (1822-1904) was a Royal Academician whose career was successful until near the end of his long life when he became bankrupt.Goodall's Wikipedia entry is here. A web site devoted to...
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More Painting by Herbert La Thangue
Henry Herbert La Thangue (1859 – 1929) was a Newlyn School (Stanhope Forbes - influenced) painter who mostly dealt with rural subjects. I previously posted about him here. Biographical information on...
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Armand Schönberger: Derivative Modernist, But Nice
Armand Schönberger (1885-1974) was an Hungarian Modernist who studied in Munich and Paris as well as in Budapest. Internet biographical information is extremely sparse: this will have to do.Even though...
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Wilhelm Kotarbiński: The Good and Not-So-Good Paintings
Wilhelm (Vasily) Aleksandrovich Kotarbiński (1848-1921), a Pole who spent many years in Italy as well as in his native Russian Empire, is best known for his classical and religious paintings, though he...
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J. Carlos: Jazz Age Brazilian Illustrator
Brazilian illustrator José Carlos de Brito e Cunha (1884-1950) shortened his name to J. Carlos for cartooning and other professional purposes. His English language Wikipedia entry (here) is brief, but...
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This is the 1,000th post on Art Contrarian.For the first few years of this blog I posted three times per week. But I've since cut production down to twice a week due to the need to keep my Car Style...
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Sketchy Portraits of Women by John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) -- Wikipedia entry here -- made his living during the 19th century by painting portraits. He was very good at it, as many 21st century folks have been coming to...
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Roger Broders Poster Art
Roger Broders (1883-1953) is best known for his Art Deco / Moderne style travel posters for French railroads, though he is far less known in the USA than the artist called A.M. Cassandre, whose posters...
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Up Close: Edmund Tarbell's "The Blue Veil"
Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938) was one of those "Ten" group Boston area painters who did a lot of interesting work during the decades around the year 1900. As his Wikipedia entry notes, he might be...
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Dalí Paints a Sugar-Daddy's Daughter
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989: biography here), like many other painters resorted to making portraits from time to time in order to help earn a living.One example is that of Dorothy Spreckels (brief...
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Towards the End: Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) is one of the most famous French painters of Revolutionary and Napoleonic times. Many of his works were directly or indirectly political, and he was personally involved...
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