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More F.R. Gruger Illustrations
Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (1871–1953) was a popular illustrator in his day who usually worked using pencil, sometimes augmented by washes. I wrote about him here. David Apatoff's take on Gruger is here...
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Frank Wootton Car Drawings
Frank Wootton (1911-1998) is probably best known here in the USA for his illustrations of aircraft and automobiles. I wrote about his aircraft paintings here and elsewhere (use the Search tool at the...
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More Portraits by Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) was one of America's finest portrait artists. Her Wikipedia entry is here, and I wrote about her here. That was several years ago, so I think it's time to feature more of her...
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Some Henry Raleigh 1920s Party Scenes
Henry Patrick Raleigh (1880-1944) was one of the most popular American illustrators during the 1920s and into the 1930s. Besides having nice touches in drawing style and composition, these were capped...
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Some of Morris Graves' Birds
Morris Graves (1910-2001) was one of the "Mystic" painteres of the Pacific Northwest featured in a 1953 issue of Life Magazine. I wrote about the group here. A lengthy Wikipedia entry about Graves can...
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Minneapolis' 1929 Foshay Tower
Eons ago when I was in my mid-teens our family took the Milwaukee line railroad to Chicago. The train stopped briefly in Minneapolis where I noticed a tall, white, slightly obelisk-shaped office...
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Gallen-Kallela Paints the Kalevala
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865–1931) is perhaps Findland's greatest painter. I wrote about his portrait art here, and his Wikipedia entry is here.At various times over his career he painted scenes from...
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Portraits of Women by Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) is known for her 1930-vintage paintings of people done in a slightly simplified, smoothed manner while featuring crisply defined costumes and geometrical backgrounds....
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Norman Mills Price, Stickler for Authenticity
Norman Mills Price (1877-1951) was a Canadian-born, Europe-trained illustrator known in his trade for taking pains to get correct details in his works. His brief Wikipedia entry is here. It notes:...
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Guy Anderson, Another Pacific Northwest "Mystic" Painter
Guy Anderson (1906-1998) was one of the four Seattle area painters famously (in Seattle, at least) featured in a 1953 Life Magazine article. I wrote about them here. More information regarding...
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A Few of Jacek Malczewski's Self-Portraits
Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929) is considered by me, among others, as one of Poland's finest painters. I wrote about his portayal of Death as a woman here, and about his muses here. His Wikipedia entry...
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Jeff Godshall Automobile Illustrations and Their Sources
An illustrator who had a pen-and-ink touch I greatly admire was Jeffrey I. Godshall (1941-2019) who was a stylist at Chrysler and in his spare time an automobile historian.A series of "Car Spotter"...
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Burton Silverman's Views and Images
Burton Silverman (1928 - ), illustrator and painter, never succumbed to Modernism. Yet he has had a reasonably successful career despite his refusal to follow artistic/commercial fashions. For a...
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Some Rockefeller Center Sculptures
A faithful reader of this blog recently suggested that I write a post dealing with sculptures at New York City's Rockefeller Center. Fine idea. Below are images from when the center was new along...
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More Edgar Payne Images
Edgar Alwin Payne (1883-1947), as I noted here a few years ago, is one of my favorite California Impressionist painters. His Wikipedia entry is here.Although he included people in the form of tiny...
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Foujita: Cats, Women, War and Mostly Himself
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968) was born in Japan, studied Western art there, and then went to Paris where he soon had a successful career, especially during the 1920s when he was a fixture in...
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Ziegfeld Theater by Joseph Urban
One building I think should have been preserved, but wasn't, was New York City's Ziegfeld Theater (1927-1966). Its Wikipedia entry is here. It mentions that the architects were the great Joseph...
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Multi Ritratti: Tarzan
Usually my "Multi Ritratti" posts deal with portraits of subjects by several artists. I thought it would be fun to do a variation on this -- how various illustrators portrayed the fictional character...
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Rockefeller Center's "Other" Theater, Now Long Gone
I recently wrote about New York City's Ziegfeld Theater, razed in 1967. Another historically interesting theater that failed to survive was the RKO Roxy (alias Center) Theater (1932-1954) -- Wikipedia...
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Maxfield Parrish 1940s Landscapes
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) was a successful illustrator and Fine Arts painter whose reputation sagged late in his career and has since recovered fairly well. His Wikipedia entry is here, and I wrote...
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