Ashcan School - Maurice Prendergast part 4
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 – 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolour, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight associated with the Ashcan School,...
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 – 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolour, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight associated with the Ashcan School,...
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 – 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolour, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight associated with the Ashcan School,...
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858 – 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist who worked in oil, watercolour, and monotype. He exhibited as a member of The Eight associated with the Ashcan School,...
View ArticleJim Flora - part 3
James "Jim" Flora (1914 – 1998), best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s, was also a prolific commercial...
View ArticleJohn Sell Cotman - part 3
John Sell Cotman by Miles Edmund CotmanJohn Sell Cotman (1782 – 1842) was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator and author, and a leading member of the Norwich School of...
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John Sell Cotman (1782 – 1842) was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator and author, and a leading member of the Norwich School of artists.For biographical notes on Cotman, and...
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John Sell Cotman Self-Portrait pen and ink 15.3 x 11 cmJohn Sell Cotman (1782 – 1842) was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator and author, and a leading member of the Norwich...
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John Sell Cotman by Horatio Beevor Love pencil and wash 27.3 x 21 cm © National Portrait Gallery, LondonJohn Sell Cotman (1782 – 1842) was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator...
View ArticleFilm Posters
2012 Lincoln In recognition of yesterday's 2013 Oscar Awards, and Daniel Day Lewis' historic third Best Actor Oscar, I thought I'd take a look at some contemporary (and one or two not so contemporary)...
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While I was on the subject of contemporary film posters (see latest post 25 February 2013) I thought I would share some more of my favourite film poster designs of the recent (and not so recent) past:...
View ArticleThe Ariel Poems – part 2
The Ariel poems were a series of 38 pamphlets published between 1927 – 1931 by Faber and Gwyer (and later Faber and Faber) which contained illustrated poems.Each numbered pamphlet had an illustrated...
View ArticleAubrey Beardsley – part 1
This is an update, enlargement, and replacement of a much earlier blog post on the works of Aubrey Beardsley.
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Aubrey Beardsley by Max Beerbohm c1894Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the...
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