Walter Crane - part 14
Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his...
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Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his...
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Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his...
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 Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his...
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Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his...
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 Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his...
View ArticleLuigi Bompard - part 1
Born in Bologna in 1879, from a French father, Luigi Bompard was not an artist who could be called revolutionary, he always worked in the wake of the Italian tradition influenced by the Jugendstil and,...
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c1920 Self-Portrait with a dedication pencil on paperBorn in Bologna in 1879, from a French father, Luigi Bompard was not an artist who could be called revolutionary, he always worked in the wake of...
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Born in Bologna in 1879, from a French father, Luigi Bompard was not an artist who could be called revolutionary, he always worked in the wake of the Italian tradition influenced by the Jugendstil and,...
View ArticleFranz Messerschmidt - part 1
Self Portrait Bode-Museum, Berlin, GermanyFranz Messerschmidt, the leading sculptor at the court in Vienna in the 1760s, was forced, for personal and professional reasons, to leave for the provinces...
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Franz Messerschmidt, the leading sculptor at the court in Vienna in the 1760s, was forced, for personal and professional reasons, to leave for the provinces and by 1777 had settled in Pressburg (today...
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Franz Messerschmidt, the leading sculptor at the court in Vienna in the 1760s, was forced, for personal and professional reasons, to leave for the provinces and by 1777 had settled in Pressburg (today...
View ArticleSwiss Travel Posters - Part 1
On his first trip to Switzerland in 1878, Mark Twain noted that "regions which were unvisited and unknown remoteness a hundred years ago, are in our days a buzzing hive of restless strangers." Though...
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On his first trip to Switzerland in 1878, Mark Twain noted that "regions which were unvisited and unknown remoteness a hundred years ago, are in our days a buzzing hive of restless strangers." Though...
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 On his first trip to Switzerland in 1878, Mark Twain noted that "regions which were unvisited and unknown remoteness a hundred years ago, are in our days a buzzing hive of restless strangers." Though...
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On his first trip to Switzerland in 1878, Mark Twain noted that "regions which were unvisited and unknown remoteness a hundred years ago, are in our days a buzzing hive of restless strangers." Though...
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 On his first trip to Switzerland in 1878, Mark Twain noted that "regions which were unvisited and unknown remoteness a hundred years ago, are in our days a buzzing hive of restless strangers." Though...
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 On his first trip to Switzerland in 1878, Mark Twain noted that "regions which were unvisited and unknown remoteness a hundred years ago, are in our days a buzzing hive of restless strangers." Though...
View ArticleFrank Schoonover - part 1
Frank Schoonover in Howard Pyle's studioAs a student at Howard Pyle’s school in the Brandywine area, Frank Earle Schoonover became a devoted adherent to his teacher’s tough belief that an artist should...
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Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972) was enamoured with Howard Pyle’s magazine work from the time he was a young boy in Trenton, New Jersey. After youthful endeavours copying Pyle’s illustrations,...
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