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Jim Holdaway: Modesty Blaise Illustrator
Jim Holdaway (1927–1970) died of a heart attack a few months shy of his 43rd birthday. Like some other talented artists who died young, he had already become famous. This for comic strip fans due to...
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André Favory, Reformed Cubist
André Favory (1889-1937) was active from around 1910 to about 1930. His French Wikipedia entry is here -- there is no English version.It mentions: "Élève de l'Académie Julian, et fortement influencé...
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Charles M. Russell, Painter of Old Montana
Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926) was born in Missouri, left at age 16, and spent most of his adult life in or near Great Falls, Montana. He was a self-taught painter and illustrator who depicted...
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CSI: The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
Jacques-Louis David - La mort de Marat - 1793I label this post as being political art. I might have almost equally called it historical art. That's because the paintings shown here deal with a...
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Molti Ritratti: Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) is best known for her writing, but she also had a stage career when young. Her Wikipedia entry is here.Unlike most of these "Molti Ritratti" posts, the subject sat...
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New Austin Briggs Book by David Apatoff
I was on the road, doing a cross-USA road round-trip for old times sake, so I received my copy of David Apatoff's latest book later than some other folks did. (Many thanks to Manuel Auad and Bill...
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Famous Illustrators' Work at Wall Drug
If you're an illustration fan and happen to be driving on Interstate 90 in southwestern South Dakota close by the Badlands, either coming from or going to the Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore, do not fail...
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens' New Hampshire Home
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) was, in my opinion, one of America's greatest sculptors. I last wrote about him here.In his later years, he lived in the Cornish art colony area of western New...
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens' New Hampshire Studio
I wrote about the Cornish, New Hampshire art colony home of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) in the previous post. His grounds are now held by the National Park Service. It's a little out of...
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Scorchy Smith's Adventure Comic Strip Style Legacy
For several decades, American comic strips have been shrunken (compared to 1940s sizes), humor-oriented creatures. But from roughly 1930 into the 1960s there were many plot-driven strips with...
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Up Close: Sargent's Fumée d'ambre gris
Fumée d'ambre gris 1880, is one of John Singer Sargent's most interesting paintings.It and some outstanding works by Sargent and others can be seen at the Clark art museum in Williamstown,...
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Jacques-Émile Blanche: Portraits of Women
Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) was a painter, musician and writer whose paintings were mostly portraits of wealthy people with some connection to the arts. His English Wikipedia entry is here, his...
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Up Close: Sargent's Portrait of Carolus-Duran
The reputation of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has been on the mend for several decades. I've been noticing that references to him are not apologetic, though they might have been in decades past.The...
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Bouguereau's Nymphs and Satyr Up Close
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) was an artist whose technical capabilities I greatly respect. On the other hand, most of his paintings hold little appeal due their subject matter and somewhat...
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Harold Weston, Harvard-Trained Gadabout
Harold Weston (1894-1972) led a binary life of several sorts, as can be gleaned from his Wikipedia entry.At times he lived in isolation or near-isolation in an Adirondack cabin. Later in the French...
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Finally!! I Got to See Klimt's Judith II
This was a twenty-year epic struggle for me. Okay, I exaggerate -- but the twenty-year part is true.Since the late 1990s I've been fortunate enough to view most of the important paintings by Gustav...
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Whitney Darrow, Jr. of the New Yorker
Whitney Darrow, Jr. (1909-1999) was a mainstay cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine in its 1930s heyday and beyond. His Wikipedia entry notes that he was a Princeton University graduate who, unlike...
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Fernand Lungren: Some Eurpean Scenes
Fernand Harvey Lungren (1857-1932) is not well known, but in his day traveled widely and knew many important fellow artists. Places he lived include: New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; London; Santa Fe, New...
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Robert Brough's Short, Promising Career
Robert Brough (1872-1905) was a Scottish painter whose career was cut short by injuries sustained in a train accident. Some background information is here and here.He was capable of making fine society...
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Cruise Ship with Retro Décor
Now for a brief shift from graphic art to Industrial Design / Interior Decoration -- subjects I occasionally touch on here.Aside from two troopship journeys across the Pacific Ocean, I didn't do...
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