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LATEST ARTICLES ( 110 )

• In Plato's Cave: The Art of Ferdinand Springer

  

  I haven't written much on this blog about engravers, perhaps because I started a rather over-ambitious post about engraving in general that still languishes in... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Happy Holidays

  

  Raoul Dufy, SailorLithograph with pochoir colouring, 1920PRAYERafter Guillaume Apollinaire, PrièreWhen I was a small childMy mother dressed me in blue and white... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• John Piper: Lithographs of Devizes

  

  John Piper's topographical paintings and prints offer an unparalleled record of mid twentieth-century Britain. While at one point in the 1930s Piper was poised... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Keeping Impressionism at Bay

  

  The French art critic Léon Roger-Milès is best-known today for his 1897 book Art et Nature, which included original etchings by Pissarro, Renoir, Besnard, and... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Karl-Heinz Kliemann: the Genesis of a Neo-Expressionist

  

  The great pre-Nazi flowering of German Expressionism is so striking a cultural phenomenon that it is tempting to feel that the whole movement was crushed under... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Unspoiled Balearics: Francisque De Saint-Etienne

  

  Francisque de Saint-Étienne was born in Montpellier in 1824. A landscape painter and etcher, Saint-Étienne was a pupil of Jules Laurens. Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Female Etcher of the Second Empire: Frederique Emilie O'Connell

  

  A good artistic quiz question would be: What nationality was Frédérique Émilie O'Connell? The answer is neither French nor Irish, but German. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Another Side of Marcel Roux

  

  It's now three years since I first posted about Marcel Roux, and I thought I had probably said all I had to say. But two recent acquisitions make me want to... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Unknown Francis Picabia

  

  Francis Picabia is, of course, far from unknown. As the spokesman of the Cubist Section d'Or at the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and as the agent provocateu... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Polish Wood Engravers: Wladislaw Skoczylas and His Influence

  

  Wladislaw Skoczylas (1883-1934) is considered the father of modern Polish wood engraving, and most of the other artists in this post studied under him. Skoczyla... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Animal Grace: Norbertine Bresslern Roth

  

  Norbertine Bresslern-Roth was born Norbertine Roth in Graz, Austria, in 1891, Bresslern-Roth was one of the pre-eminent linocut artists of the twentieth century... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Pierre Dubreuil and Hans Gött: Two Pupils of Henri Matisse

  

  While most of Henri Matisse's close relationships with other artists were as friend and colleague, sharing ideas and going on joint painting expeditions (for... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir as a Book Illustrator

  

  In 1878, the publishers C. Marpon and E. Flammarion published a lavishly illustrated edition of Émile Zola’s novel L’Assommoir. The title page had a wood... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Max Pollak: Portrait of Maria Ley

  

  Max Pollak was born in Prague in 1886. He grew up in Vienna, where he studied printmaking under William Unger and Ferdinand Schmutzer. He won the Prix de Rome... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• New York Etching Club: Frederick W. Freer

  

  The painter and etcher Frederick Warren Freer was born in 1849 in Kennicott's Grove, Illinois, now part of Chicago. He studied art in Chicago before attending... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Quiet Reflections: the Etchings of Ferdinand Schmutzer

  

  The painter, printmaker, and photographer Ferdinand Schmutzer is little-known today, yet his work, which focuses on moments of quiet thought and reflection,... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Dark Night of the Soul: the Art of Felix Meseck

  

  Felix Meseck was born in Danzig in 1883, and died in Holzminden in 1955. Meseck studied at the Fine Art Academies in Berlin and Königsberg, studying painting... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Eric Ravilious: High Street Variants

  

  When I wrote my post A walk along High Street, I was aware that three of Eric Ravilious's evocative lithographs of shop fronts for High Street had first been... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Say Something, Edith - Little-known Linocuts of Claude Flight and Edith Lawrence

  

  "Say something, Edith." This catchphrase in my wife's family, spoken whenever anyone is feeling too tired or bored to amuse themselves, took my fancy long befor... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Art of Jean Cocteau

  

  It seems fair to say that Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) would scarcely have been a significant poet without Apollinaire, or novelist without Radiguet, or filmmaker... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2011 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE