Saturday, May 31, 2014

Anders Zorn

 

Anders Zorn

 
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

Category:Etchings by Anders Zorn





Thursday, May 29, 2014

Howard Brodie



Howard Brodie




  • Title: Sketched this inside a dugout
  • Creator(s): Brodie, Howard, 1915-2010, artist
  • Date Created/Published: [between 1942 and 1943]
  • Medium: 1 drawing : graphite and crayon.
  • Summary: Drawing shows two privates, John Minihan of Rockford, Illinois on the right, and Sal de George of Manhattan on the left, kneeling to operate a machine gun from their dugout during the American offensive on Mt. Austen during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal.


  • Title: Road to Kokumbona
  • Creator(s): Brodie, Howard, 1915-2010, artist
  • Date Created/Published: [between 1942 and 1943]
  • Medium: 1 drawing : graphite.
  • Summary: Sketch shows American soldiers in a jeep, seen from the rear, as they travel down the road to Kokumbona on Guadalcanal island, past abandoned Japanese field pieces during the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Horse Anatomy

 
Text and images from:figure-drawings.blogspot
 

 Horse Anatomy A handbook for artists comprising the study of the proportion and action of the horse as compared to man, by Lewis S. Brown is an amazing labor of love by an artist who was inspired by the juxtaposition of the skeletons of a horse and of a man at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He worked on it for seventeen years doing extensive research into the anatomy, proportions and movement of horse and man and eventually published it in 1948.







Monday, May 26, 2014

Rembrandt


Rembrandt


Description
Two women teaching a child to walk; one bending over and pointing. c.1635-1637
Red chalk on rough grey paper.

Dimensions
Height: 103 millimetres (chain lines vertical, 21mm apart)
Width: 128 millimetres

Sunday, May 25, 2014

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

  
 images from: muddycolors


  






 According to the Clark Institute, in the painting "a group of nymphs have been surprised, while bathing in a secluded pond, by a lascivious satyr. Some of the nymphs have retreated into the shadows on the right; others, braver than their friends, are trying to dampen the satyr's ardor by pulling him into the cold water -- one of the satyr's hooves is already wet and he clearly wants to go no further. Bouguereau’s working methods were traditional; he made a number of sketches and drawings of carefully posed human figures in complicated interconnected poses, linking them together in this wonderfully rhythmical composition.".......from wikipedia



Saturday, May 24, 2014

Jacopo Tintoretto (1519–1594)

Jacopo Tintoretto (1519–1594)

Roman Head (So-Called Head of Emperor Vitellius)
Charcoal, heightened with white chalk, on blue paper faded to brown
13 1/16 x 9 13/16 inches (333 x 249 mm.)
This drawing depicts a Roman portrait bust sent to Venice by Cardinal Domenico Grimani and exhibited in the Ducal Palace from 1525 to 1593. Traditionally it was thought to represent the Roman emperor Vitellius, famous for his indolence and gluttony. A plaster cast of this antique sculpture was documented in Tintoretto's studio.

About twenty studies of this bust by Tintoretto and his pupils are known. The present version portrays the head from a low vantage point, emphasizing the massive neck and jowls, with vigorous parallel hatching and sharp highlights making the figure look particularly alive and dramatic.







Friday, May 23, 2014

Gian Lorenzo Bernini



Self-Portrait, c. 1625-30
Black and red chalk, heightened with white on brown paper
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford



Wednesday, May 21, 2014

George Lichty

George Lichty


Title: Grin and Bear It - 1965 - Senator Snort
Artist: George Lichty (All)
 Media Type: Pen and Ink   

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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Ray Patterson

Pictures and copy from animationresources



Ray Patterson’s career in animation spanned seven decades. He was responsible for the animation of Jerry Mouse dancing with Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh as well as animation for Dumbo and the "Pastoral" sequence of Fantasia. In 1954 he formed his own studio Grantray-Lawrence and he worked at Hanna-Barbera and Sanrio Productions as well.
Today, his family is sharing some of his earliest work with us… Ray began as an inker in 1929 at the Charles Mintz Screen Gems studio, working on Krazy Kat and Scrappy cartoons. By 1930, he had worked his way up to a position as animator. Here are some rare sketches and model sheets from his tenure there… Enjoy!





Friday, May 16, 2014

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

James Allen St. John

From: erbzine

This image served as the basis for the dust jacket cover for the 1923 Tarzan and the Golden Lion.

James Allen St. John




The J. Allen St. John painting above was commissioned by Stanleigh Vinson in 1954 and inspired by the book jacket for Tarzan and the Golden Lion, published by A. C. McClurg.

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Gustaf Tenggren



 From: filmic-light.blogspot



 Gustaf Tenggren's original 1937 promotional poster art, mixed media on paper (18.5" x 14.5") featuring all of the major characters from the film







Friday, May 9, 2014

John Singleton Copley


John Singleton Copley

Study for "The Knatchbull Family": Sir Edward Knatchbull

John Singleton Copley (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London)

Date:
1800–1802
Medium:
Black chalk, white-chalk heightening, and graphite on dark blue laid paper
Dimensions:
13 13/16 x 11 3/16 in. (35.1 x 28.4 cm)

Study for "The Knatchbull Family": Norton Joseph Knatchbull

John Singleton Copley (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London)

Date:
1800–1802
Medium:
Black chalk, white-chalk heightening, and graphite on dark blue laid paper
Dimensions:
13 7/8 x 11 3/8 in. (35.2 x 28.9 cm)
Classification:
Drawings

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

  • Description

    52 preparatory drawings for woodblock prints and paintings, originally mounted in album. With pentimenti. Red and black ink on paper. Inscribed and signed. Miscellaneous subjects, including:
    3: Empress Jingu leading invasion of Korea from series 'Concise Illustrated History of Great Japan'
    6: Emperor Gotoba in boat from series 'Concise Illustrated History of Great Japan'
    9: Useugi Kenshin and blind biwa player
    13a: Carps and wisteria
    13b: Strong Woman Oiko of Takashima
    50: Female ghost
    51: Street performers
    52: Bathhouse attendant
for more of the same go to:  britishmuseum



Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919


  • Title: Nude study for figure of Botany Library of Congress
  • Creator(s): Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919, artist
  • Date Created/Published: [ca. 1896]
  • Medium: 1 drawing : graphite.
  • Summary: Study drawing shows the nude allegorical figure of "Botany" for the painting, The sciences, in the south end lunette of the Southwest Gallery in the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building. A grid covers the drawing.


  • Title: Columbia & Cuba - magazine cover - nude study
  • Creator(s): Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919, artist
  • Date Created/Published: [ca. 1898]
  • Medium: 1 drawing : pencil.
  • Summary: Two women, Columbia and Cuba, embracing. This nude study for a magazine cover may have been executed during the Spanish American War of 1898.