Saturday, October 25, 2014

(Germany, 1819-1874)

Charcoal on paper, laid down

Sheet: 17 x 13 5/8 in. (43.18 x 34.61 cm)

Friday, October 24, 2014

Frank Frazetta

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Frank Frazetta

his magnificent partially inked re-do intended for the unpublished

Shock Illustrated #4 ~ 1956

for more Frank on this blog go here

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Paul Gavarni

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Paul Gavarni

(French, 1804-1866)

iron gall ink with red ink heightened with white on brown, medium thick, slightly textured wove paper

H: 9 7/16 x W: 7 3/16 in. (24 x 18.2 cm)

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Édouard de Beaumont

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Édouard de Beaumont

(French, 1821-1888)

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watercolor with graphite underdrawing and white heightening on cream, moderately-thick, smooth paper. H: 7 11/16 x W: 6 3/4 in. (19.6 x 17.1 cm)

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann

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Allegorical Figure of Music

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann

(German, 1811-1889)

pencil on paper

H: 10 1/16 x W: 5 1/2 in. (25.6 x 13.9 cm)

Bendemann served as a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1839 to 1855. He painted murals for the Throne Room of the Palace at Düsseldorf, where he also decorated several concert halls.

Monday, October 20, 2014

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905)

The Flagellation of Christ

ca. 1881

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905)

charcoal on gray, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper

Sheet: H: 17 × W: 11 3/4 in. (43.2 × 29.8 cm)

image and text from: art.thewalters

Viewers today are struck by the overtly sexual nature of the work, which is, in part, the result of its intimate scale and monochromatic treatment. The emphatic handling of the contours, the precise modeling that articulates the male anatomy of the executioners, the strict profile and rigid pose of the man just off center contrasted with the limp body of Christ and the arrangement of heavily draped voyeurs hint at something vaguely homoerotic. Many critics of the period noted with some alarm the youth and feminine abandon of the Christ figure. And it is worth mentioning that late 19th-century slang for a young male prostitute was "petit Jesus." The connection between sensuality, sadism, and religious fervor apparent in this drawing is shared with more exotic works, such as Bida's "Ceremony of Dosseh" (WAM 37.901).

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Bruce Bushman

A Disney Artist's Designs for a Hanna Barbera Land

Fantastic concept art for a never-built Hanna Barbera Land by Disney concept/layout artist Bruce Bushman (1911-1972).

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Bruce Bushman

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Paul Gavarni

(French, 1804-1866)

Transparent watercolor with graphite underdrawing, brown iron gall ink and red ink on cream, moderately thick, smooth wove paper

H: 13 1/8 x W: 8 3/8 in. (33.3 x 21.2 cm)

Highly ambiguous, this drawing can be read in a number of ways, and the caption only serves to make the image more enigmatic. The central character of this vignette wears an elaborate costume and covers his mouth in a gesture of deep contemplation. We are given access to his thoughts: "I have hurt Pamela." But if the dancing girl behind him is Pamela, she looks anything but hurt! Either Pamela is not really hurt, and the man is presumptuous in his belief that she is, or this woman is the object of Pamela's disaffection. The lack of any setting further enhances the mystery. Although it is called "Actors," a title curators assigned it when they originally catalogued it into the collection in the 1930s, there is nothing to indicate that this is a scene from a play, and it could just as easily represent an event during carnival season or a masquerade ball.

Drawing and text from: The Walters Museum

Friday, October 17, 2014

CHARLES SHELDON

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CHARLES SHELDON

53 x 39 cm (21 x 15 ½ inches) pencil and ink on board signed lower right (overall board size is 28 ¼ x 22 ¼ inches).

Charles Gates Sheldon (1889 - 1960) studied at the Art Students League in New York, under Alphonse Mucha in Paris, and then set up his own studio at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Sheldon painted a large number of portraits of female beauties on magazine covers (Screenland, Woman's Home Companion, Collier's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Photoplay...), adverts and other illustrations like high fashion portraits for Woman's Home Companion and Theater magazine.

FOR ANOTHER SHELDON PIC ON THIS BLOG GO HERE

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Pruett Carter

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Pruett Carter (1891-1955)

For more information about this artist and the process used to create this magazine illustration go to gurneyjourney where these images were pilfered

pencil underlay for the color sketch

color comp

finished illustration

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Weenies

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The Weenies

A concept was developed in 1983 by Mel Birnkrant, Mike Strouth, and Kiscom, and then purchased by Coleco, but got cancelled. Click on the weenies link for more information.