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Early New Yorker Magazine Ivy League Cartoonists
I do not read The New Yorker magazine. Never did. Though I might have, had I been alive during its  1925-1939 inception and heyday under founding editor Harold Ross (1892-1951).As the link notes, Ross...
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Molti Ritratti: Dejah Thoris
Along with multiple portraits of famous people, now and then I'll present different versions of people for whom there is no photographic evidence or even people who are fictitious. The latter is the...
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Antonio Donghi's Consistent Style
Antonio Donghi (1897-1963) is best known for paintings made during the 1920s and 1930s. During that period his style changed little. Â Essentially, his non-landscape subjects were depicted in stiff...
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Ubaldo Oppi, Painter and Alpini Lieutenant Colonel
According to his Wikipedia entry, Ubaldo Oppi (1889-1942) studied under Gustav Klimt. Â Besides that, it seems that while in Paris he had a brief affair with Picasso's ex-girlfriend Fernande...
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Future Clothing Styles From the 1930s
What might The World of the Future be like? For instance, what sorts of clothing will people wear?That great philosopher and New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra has been cited as saying something like...
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More Daniel Sayre Groesbeck Images
Daniel Sayre Groesbeck (1878-1950) was an illustrator with a nice touch whose work is scarce on the Internet. Much of that has to do with the fact that for a chunk of his career, he had the role of...
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John Held, Jr.'s Woodcut Style
John Held, Jr. (1889-1958) was one of my favorite cartoonists when I was young. I even did a variation of his style while on the staff of my high school yearbook. In retrospect, Russell Patterson was...
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Joseph Edward Southall's Tempera Paintings
Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944) used tempera as his main medium, unlike most Fine Art painters who favored oil. Some background dealing with his art and politics is here.Southall's compositions are...
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Women's Eyes by Kees van Dongen and Russell Patterson
I wrote about Dutch Modernist painter Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) here, and American cartoonist Russell Patterson (1893-1977) here.Some of their works exhibit a certain similarity. Namely, from time to...
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Tadema's Women of Amphissa Up Close
I've shown close-up views of some Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) paintings here and elsewhere. But given his talent and stage-setting ability, why not more?The excellent Clark museum in Williamstown,...
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Potsdamer Platz Berlin: Life, Death and Sterile Rebirth
World War 2 was not kind to Berlin, especially Potsdamer Platz, site of a major intersection in the central part of the city. Some background can be found here and here.RAF and US 8th Air Force bombing...
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Guglielmo Ciardi: Mostly Venice Scenes
Guglielmo Ciardi (1842-1917) was Venice-born and spent most of his career there busily painting scenes of the city's canals and the adjacent lagoon. When taking a break from that, he made mountain...
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More Giacomo Favretto
Giacomo Favretto (1849-1887) was a Venetian painter who showed great promise, but whose career was cut short. I wrote about him here and here.That was more than five years ago, so I think it's time to...
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Meredith Frampton, Sculptural Borderline Modernist
George Vernon Meredith Frampton (1894-1984) eventually gave up painting due to failing eyesight. His peak years artistically were the 1920s and 1930s and his style was smoothly-painted, very slightly...
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Molti Ritratti: Jeanne d'Arc
Now for some portraits of an important historical personage that were all painted posthumously. The subject is Jeanne d'Arc (c.1412-1431), called Joan of Arc in English-speaking countries. Her...
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Victor Hume Moody: Some Dramatic Portraits
Victor Hume Moody (1896-1990) lived a long life that in his working years was dominated by the Modernism that he didn't practice.He is obscure enough that at the time I drafted this post, he had no...
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Jan Sluijters, Dutch Modernist
Johannes Carolus Bernardus (Jan) Sluijters (1881-1957) was a Dutch painter who delved into various Modernist styles, yet never abandoned representation or practiced abstraction (as best I can tell...
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Algernon Cecil Newton, Land - and City-Scape Painter
Algernon Cecil Newton (1880-1968) had an unusual art pedigree, as this mentions: "Newton was born in Hampstead in 1880, a grandson of Henry Newton, one of the founders of the Winsor & Newton the...
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John Hubbard Rich, Not Quite a California Impressionist
The image above is "The Idle Hour" (1917) by John Hubbard Rich (1876-1954), painted about three years after he moved from the Northeast to Los Angeles. I like it very much.Rich's tiny Wikipedia entry...
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Robert Weber, New Yorker Cartoonist
Robert Maxwell Weber (1924-2016) was a New Yorker magazine cartoonist for many years, though his professional career began as a fashion illustrator -- unusual for a cartoonist. He probably didn't...
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