Swipe Spot #12

As previously seen at Swipe Spot #2, Ajax and Cassandra by Solomon J. Solomon.

Presented at this time for those planning to finally get in shape this forth coming year.

ad from 1902

Do you think S.J.S got his cut?

Merry Christmas!

Was your list fulfilled?

3 Maids-a-Milking?!?!

or: The Truth About Today's Refrigerators!

Today's refrigerators don't keep your milk from souring.

Gil Elvgren, G.E. ad 1941

The wise man has his milk fresh, hence the need for a milk-maid.

Andrew Loomis, Milk-maid

Haddon Sundblom, Milk-maid, demo c1940's

Though if all you want is better results…

Anders Zorn, Maria

…just drink your Ovaltine.

Gil Elvgren, Ovaltine ad 1945

Antonin Sterba 1875-1963

Antonin Sterba, portrait painter, first studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,

Antonin Sterba, Self Portrait 

and then in Paris, under Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant.

Life Study, Paris 1901 - Antonin Sterba

Sterba was a successful teacher at both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Chicago's American Academy of Art.

life class - American Academy of Art - 1924

Coca-Cola Santa's Haddon Sundblom, pin-up master Gil Elvgren, movie poster illustrator/western artist Howard Terpning, cowboy artist Tom Ryan, and magic realist Ivan Albright are some of his more notable students.

Gil Elvgren,  Sunkissed

figure study by Haddon Sundblom

Gil Elvgren - Check and Double Check

Gillette Elvgren -LIFE- Mr. Sterba

Life Drawing - American Art Academy

Antonin Sterba, Self Portrait 

Lady in White, c1930 - Antonin Sterba

Haddon Sundblom, Love Racquet

Haddon Sundblom,  Coca-Cola, 1959

Howard Terpning, Twas the Night Before Christmas

Howard Terpning also spent valuable time as a Sundblom assistant.

Howard Terpning, Pin

Haddon Sundblom - PinUp

More info can be gleaned from Illustration Magazine issue #'s 1, 26, 27 and also~ todaysinspiration.blogspot.com.

NON-LEYENDECKER

Some time ago, a website naïvely attributed the work of an unknown copyist  as being studies by the hand of J.C. Leyendecker. Unfortunately the images spread like wildfire across the web, and though the claim has since been retracted (I believe), the embers continue to find dry brush. 

For lack of a better word FAKES ~ http://www.americanartarchives.com/leyendeceker,jc_studies.htm

Without going on at length regarding the merits of drawing or brush handling, let me state this~ The method employed by the copyist: grisaille underpainting with colour glazes (akin to tinting b&w photos) was never a technique practised by either of the Leyendeckers.

Now lets identify some of the non-Leyendecker copies.

Alma-Tadema copy

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,  A Silent Greeting 

Dagnan-Bouveret etude

Dagnan-Bouveret, Manon Lescaut

Meissonier y Dagnan-Bouveret copies

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

Meissonier copy

Augustus John, Portrait of Bernard Shaw

assorted copies - Post cover by J.C. Leyendecker

Sir William Orpen, Portrait of Roland Knoedler

SUPER ZERO

Obama propaganda art by The Fake Alex Ross

Like the symbol upon his chest, the circle is complete. He came, he saw, and then he slunk off.

President Bill Clinton with FLOTUS' tool in background

SUPERMAN!!!  Wally Wood knew!!!!!

Superman by W. Wood

…but what did you really expect?

Sing along~

Somebody Super Like You : by Paul Williams

We need a man that is simple perfection

There's nothing that's harder to find

Someone to lead us protect us and feed us

And help us to make up our minds

We need a man that's sophisticated

Quiet and strong and well educated

Where to go what to do

Could it be somebody super like you

We need a man that can stand as a symbol

And symbols have got to be tall

Someone with taste and the tiniest waist

With his help would not life be a ball

If we had fun he would not restrain us

If we got caught he would just explain us

Where to go what to do

Could it be somebody super like you

We pledge allegiance to his gracefulness and charming manners

With a voice that's both sides choice he'll bring us to our knees in admiration

He is king of all who see and hear his perfect pitch

And more surprises when his time is come a stallion rises

We need a man with a head on his shoulders a nose that is simply divine

Hollywood smile and a perfect profile and with eyes that would sparkle and shine

Long flowing hair for a crowning glory

There'd be a man who could tell our story

Where to go what to do

Could it be somebody super like you

We pledge allegiance to his gracefulness and charming manners

With a voice that's both sides choice he'll bring us to our knees in admiration

He is king of all who see and hear his perfect pitch

And more surprises when his time is come a stallion rises

Rises... rises... rises 

Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909)

One may ask, "How did Krøyer paint himself rear-view eating breakfast?". Well ponder no longer!

Peder Severin Krøyer bought his first camera in 1885 and it came to play an important part in his work as artist. The origin of Hip, hip hurrah! was a photograph taken the same year in the garden of a married artist couple named Ancher, at Skagen, Denmark. The photograph is no simple snapshot but a careful arranging of the group in fixed poses. Around the table from the left we see Martha Johansen, followed by Viggo Johansen, Christian Krogh, Krøyer himself, Degn Brøndum, Michael Ancher, Oscar Björck, Thorvald Niss, Helene Christensen and Anna Ancher with her daughter Helga aged four. 

'I have received the camera I told you about. I dare say you were surprised to hear that I wanted a camera. But the fact is that it is something most artists have nowadays, especially abroad, and which can be very useful for photographing objects, movements, or anything at all that remains stationary so briefly, or is seen so seldom, that it is difficult to get time to draw it.' ~ Krøyer in a letter to his family, 1885.

colour study

It was quite a sensation when the Hirschsprung Collection in 1990 could show an exhibition of photographs by PS Krøyer. Until then, it was a well kept secret in the family that Krøyer worked from photographs.

Sommeraften ved Skagen Sønderstrand med Anna Ancher og Marie Krøyer

P.S. Krøyers fotografier

Forfattere

Elisabeth Fabritius, Marianne Saabye

Redaktør

Marianne Saabye

Udgiver

Hirschsprungske samling, 1990

ISBN

8798136941, 9788798136941

Længde

188 sider

Anders Zorn (1860-1920)

 While some artist struggle with phantom demons regarding photography, the young Anders Zorn immediately appreciated the convenience of photographic reference. In 1874, at the age of 14, he drew himself from a formal photographic portrait.

Zorn, at 24 years, would take photographs to be used as reference for his genre paintings.

In his fifties, Zorn the master could be found island hopping, camera in hand, catching hons at play (later to be etched).

Click here for more images~

 http://picasaweb.google.com/104843871720362761374/ZORNPhotographsAndRelatedWork?feat=directlink