Thursday, February 27, 2014

N. C. Wyeth



Illustrations for McClure's Magazine ~ 1906-08

"Montana" The Last Stand
Oil on canvas, 50 1/8 x 34 (127.3 x 86.3 cm)








Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Charlotte Harding (1873 -1951)


Charlotte Harding (1873 -1951)

 

Basket Ball Bryn Mawr, 1903

Illustration for Alice Katherine Fallows, “Athletics for College Girls,Century, May 1903
Charcoal on paper on illustration board, 15 x 19 ¾ inches
Collection of Brandywine River Museum, gift of Charlotte Harding Ganz, Madison, New Jersey, 1972, 72.6.2



Saturday, February 22, 2014

WALTER UFER (American, 1876-1936)

 Orientalist Portrait. Charcoal on paper drawing. Measures 9 1/2" x 12 ¾".




 

The Twins, 1922

From AskArt:
  Born in Germany to parents who had immigrated the next year to Louisville, Kentucky, Walter Ufer became one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and achieved much distinction as a painter of Pueblo Indian genre. He was a complex, enigmatic personality, claiming that he was born in Louisville rather than Germany and suffering chronic alcoholism. During periods of sobriety, he painted powerful canvases of New Mexico Indian genre, especially of the Taos Pueblo.


Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Harold Speed

IMAGE BORROWED FROM THE INSPIRATIONAL ARTWORKS BLOG

Harold Speed

                  Wikipedia article
                  Artcyclopedia page


GARRET



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 The above drawing is one I copied from Shorpy, a website of historical photographs. I was interested in this photo because the compositional tableau reminded me of a Joseph Leyendecker cover illustration, my favorite illustrator.
Then lo and behold I discovered it was used by Leyendecker as reference for a war bond poster or the photographer modeled the photograph after the poster…..


Weapons for Liberty, 1918

Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 2, 1918 and poster illustration for the Boy Scouts of America Third Liberty Loan Campaign, 1918
Collection of the National Scouting Museum.