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Robert Cottingham's Signs
A loyal reader (thanks, Bill) tipped me off to Robert Cottingham (born 1935) who is usually classed as a Photorealist.His Wikipedia entry here is brief, and longer takes on him can be linked here and...
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Another Alma-Tadema Painting Up Close
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1936-1912) was long neglected, but now some of his paintings are auctioned for tens of millions of dollars. I wrote about this in 2011 and discussed his miniaturist aspect...
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Chiaroscuro and More: Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), Wikipedia entry here, is probably best known for his dramatic Chiaroscuro paintings in the manner of Caravaggio.But he painted most of his works in less dramatic...
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Alma-Tadema Paints Something Non-Classical
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) is best known for his paintings of Classical scenes. I wrote in 2011 about the rise of prices for his work, discussed his miniaturist aspect here and recently...
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Charles Saxon: Bomber Pilot, New Yorker Cartoonist
Charles David Saxon (1920-1988), born Charles David Isaacson in Brooklyn, was a 1940 graduate of Columbia University (he entered in his mid-teens) who later for many years was a major cartoon...
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A Tempest Called Ralph Barton
Ralph Waldo Emerson Barton (1891-1931) had a tortured mind and a short, tempestuous life that ended in suicide. Yet he was a talented, highly successful cartoonist for such publications as Puck, Vanity...
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Pre-Rapahelites Up Close: Some Snapshots
A large exhibit of Victorian art from Birmingham, England is touring the USA, currently parked at the Seattle Art Museum. Part of that exhibit is of paintings by Pre-Raphelite artists whose works are...
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Ellen, Another Pyle
Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle (1876-1936) was a highly successful illustrator whose career mostly took place 1920-1935. My criterion is that she illustrated around 40 covers for the Saturday Evening...
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Garrett Price of the New Yorker
Garrett Price (1897–1979) is best known -- to me, at least -- for his New Yorker cartoons. His career was more varied than that, however. Besides cartoons, he illustrated books and for three years...
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Max Beckmann Self-Portraits
Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is associated with Germany's post- Great War Neue Sachlichkeit movement. It favored harshly depicted, distorted, exaggerated subjects that often were little more than elaborate...
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Rubens Does Some Advertising
San Francisco's Legion of Honor has on display through 8 September 2019 an exhibit titled"Early Rubens".There were many works, the paintings being mostly large. Even at the stage of his career shown,...
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In the beginning: Giovanni Boldini
Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931) made a large number of flash-and-dash style society portraits, mostly of women, beginning in the 1890s. Those works are what most of us think of, if we are aware of him. As...
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Ray Prohaska's Multiple Styles
Ray Prohaska (1901-1981), was born Gracia Josef Prohaska near present-day Kotor in Montenegro. At that time, the city was called Càttaro and was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Prohaska family...
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Saul Tepper Vignette Illustrations
Saul Tepper (1899-1987) is one of my favorite illustrators who worked in thick oil paints during the 1920s and early '30s. A number of illustrators used that style -- two of the best known being Dean...
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A Small, Very Nice Saint-Gaudens Sculpture
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) was one of America's best sculptors -- regardless of era. His Wikipedia entry is here.The Seattle Art Museum is woefully lacking in art of any kind from the 1800s and...
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Michelotti's Grossly Exaggerated Presentation Drawings
Giovanni Michelotti (1921-1980) was one of the leading Italian automobile stylists of his day. But he is perhaps less well-known than others because his career was largely that of a free-lancer --...
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Amédée Ozenfant's Intellectualized Art
Amédée Ozenfant (1886-1966) seems to be best-known for creating the Purism movement of the early 1920s. His Wikipedia entry is here.I was made aware of Ozenfant many years ago during my year-long...
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Molti Ritratti: Bernard Montgomery
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976) is famous for winning the battle of El Alamein where he defeated the Axis forces led by Rommel, the Desert Fox, and...
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Keith Ferris: Disciplined Aviation Artist
If you have visited the Air and Space Museum on the Washington DC mall, you probably viewed the huge mural (above) of U.S. Army B-17 bombers under attack. It was painted by acclaimed aviation artist...
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Vittorio Matteo Corcos, “peintre des jolies femmes”
Sogni (Dreams) - 1896Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859-1933) is perhaps best known for the above painting that can be viewed at Rome's Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna.Briefly, Corcos trained in Florence...
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