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Charles Edward Chambers
(American, 1883–1941) -
Untitled (story illustration)
- oil on canvas
- 24 x 16 in. (61 x 40.6 cm.)
The purpose of this blog was to force me to do a drawing a day. However, it is other artist’s drawings I seem to display.
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Charles Edward Chambers
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Gilbert Stuart
Oil and egg mixture on blue laid paper on canvas, 47.6 x 47.6 cm (18 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.)
One can only accurately discern a persons visual characteristics though careful study of the profile. Guess who this famous American is before reading further, for the answer.
- Gallery Text
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- Few American paintings demonstrate the early nineteenth-
century fascination with the ancient world as powerfully as this profile
portrait. Stuart modeled it directly on the imagery of ancient Greek
and Roman coins, medallions, and marble relief sculptures. The third
president was certainly familiar with such classical sources. After
sitting for the portrait in Washington, he thanked Stuart for “taking
the head ‘à la antique.’”
Jefferson, one of the chief proponents of the neoclassical style in America, was particularly enamored of the profile format. Stuart’s painting was the fourth in a series of profile portraits that the president had commissioned for display at Monticello, his home in Virginia. Stuart was less familiar with this style of likeness; the portrait is unique in his oeuvre, which largely consists of half-length portraits in oil.
- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1960.156
- People
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Gilbert Stuart,
American
(North
Kingstown, RI 1755 - 1828 Boston, MA)
- Title
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) (The Medallion Portrait)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1805
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2240, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Arts in the Eighteenth–Century Atlantic World
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- Medium
- Oil and egg mixture on blue laid paper on canvas
- Technique
- Grisaille
- Dimensions
- 47.6 x 47.6 cm (18 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.)
framed: 68 x 68.6 x 10.2 cm (26 3/4 x 27 x 4 in.)
- Provenance
- From the artist to the sitter, Thomas Jefferson, 1805; to daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph; to her daughter Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge; to her son Thomas Jefferson Coolidge; to his daughter Sarah Lawrence Coolidge Newbold; to his son Thomas Jefferson Newbold, Harvard class of 1910, 1917; to his wife, Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Newbold; her gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1960.
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
George Ludway
NO BIO FOUND
From: comicartfans
This is a cartoon that was used in Humorama at
least twice, the second time in 1961 per the stamp on the back.
Presumably, they used a different joke each time. These girls could be
saying anything.