Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Mark Summers

Walt Whitman

Scratchboard Illustrations by 

Mark Summers

 


                 Edgar Allan Poe  

               from: theinspirationgrid.com

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Saul Tepper

From: icollector.com
Wager lifted his own voice in a great echoing Shout. 35" x 39 1/2" oil on canvas. initialed and dated '32 lower right. Illustration featured on pages 42 and 43 of The American Magazine, September 1932 edition, short story, The Tall Ladder, by Katharine Newlin Burt.

Saul Tepper

             To see a previous Saul Tepper black and white illustration from this blog click here
              A copy of the magazine

Monday, January 27, 2014

Carle (Charles André) Vanloo

http://www.dorotheum.com    



Carle (Charles André) Vanloo

 (French, Nice 1705–1765 Paris)


 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 

Bust of a Young Girl, Profile to Left

Carle (Charles André) Vanloo (French, Nice 1705–1765 Paris)

Date:
18th century
Medium:
Charcoal, stumped, heightened with white, on beige paper.
Dimensions:
14 1/4 x 11 1/8 in. (36.2 x 28.3 cm.)
Classification:
Drawings



Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Howard Pyle (1853-1911)

      rescanned from the underpaintings.blogspot

Howard Pyle (1853-1911)
Harper's New Monthly magazine story illustration, 1879
Sunday in Old Catskill (1879)
watercolor and pencil on board
11 X 15 in.








Friday, January 17, 2014

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Frederick Hawkins Piercy, English, 1830–1891



Devil's Gate, Missouri

  • 1853
Dimensions
Sheet: 10.9 x 12.9 cm (4 5/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
Medium or Technique
Brush and wash over graphite on paper
 

Elk Horn River Ferry, 1853

Dimensions
Sheet: 16.3 x 25.7 cm (6 7/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Medium or Technique
Graphite with brush and wash on paper

Independence Rock, Wyoming

  • 1853
Dimensions
Sheet: 10.7 x 16.6 cm (4 1/4 x 6 9/16 in.)
Medium or Technique
Brush and brown wash over graphite on paper

 *  Images are from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


 The following is scanned from Ancestry.com message Board:

 Frederick Piercy was born 27 Jan 1830. He was the eighth of nine children of George and Deborah Adams Piercy of Portsea, Hampshire, England. By the time he was twenty-three, Piercy was already an accomplished artist, specializing in both portraits and landscapes. Piercy joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints in 1848, and in 1849 was married to Angelina Hawkins.

On February 5, 1853, Piercy, along with about 300 other immigrants, set sail from Liverpool on the Jersey, bound for the port of New Orleans, and eventually to Salt Lake City. This journey resulted in the publication of the illustrated travel book, "Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley". It was first published in fifteen monthly parts from July 1854 to September 1855 to encourage British Mormons to emigrate to Utah. Piercy skillfully sketched immigration in the American West; his works and writings are most often used to represent the time period.


Saturday, January 11, 2014

Attributed to Gil Elvgren

Gil Elvgren Pin-up Sketch


Artist:Attributed to Gil Elvgren




Date:Late 1940s to early 50s
Medium:Graphite on artist's paper
Dimensions:Sight size 10" by 13 1/2"

Condition:Very good with some creasing and tanning to the paperstock

Original Use:Sketch for undetermined pin-up

Price:$4500.00
 

From the Grapefruit Moon Gallery

 


Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Ludwig Hohlwein


  
Scans from the Art & artists blog




                     1926 Victoria Bicycles                                   1924 A.D.A.C. General German Automobile Club   


              A.G.A. General Representation AutoHoffmann, Munich                                   Crystal Palace, Munich


'Auf der Kanzel Knussert' Book Cover Design

Monday, January 6, 2014

George Stubbs, 1724-1806


George Stubbs, 1724-1806, British, Fowl Skeleton, Lateral View (Finished Study for Table V), between 1795 and 1806, Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection


A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl





George Stubbs, 1724-1806, British, Human Figure, Lateral View (Finished study for an unpublished table, representing the last stage in the dissection), between 1795 and 1806, Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection recto

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Jules Dalou

 
IT'S 3-D THURSDAY !!!!

  

  I don't know whats going on here but someone might end up in jail.

This is my favorite high-relief sculpture. I have never seen hard cold stone look so warm soft and "fleshy"









Scans from Wickipedia


Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Clark, Walter Appleton, 1876-1906,

Drop ut, idjut, whispered a voice in her ear

  • Title: Drop ut, idjut, whispered a voice in her ear
  • Creator(s): Clark, Walter Appleton, 1876-1906, artist
  • Date Created/Published: 1905.
  • Medium: 1 drawing : charcoal.
Published in: "A Study in Values" by Emma Kaufman, Collier's weekly (Aug. 12, 1905), p. 11.



Library of Congress > Prints & Photographs Reading Room > Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

Two policemen leading woman off followed by crowd

  • Title: [Two policemen leading woman off followed by crowd]
  • Creator(s): Clark, Walter Appleton, 1876-1906, artist
  • Date Created/Published: [1905?]
  • Medium: 1 drawing : charcoal.

Published as headpiece in: "A Study in Values" by Emma Kaufman, Collier's weekly (Aug. 12, 1905), p. 11.