or: Inspired By(?) #8
Was J. Allen St. John inspired by Lord Frederic Leighton?
Who would dare doubt‽
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
Jeanne Gérôme
Portrait de Jeanne Gérôme
by Charles François Jalabert* (Nimes 1819-1901 Paris)
Jeanne was the daughter of Jean-Léon Gérôme* and Marie Goupil, daughter of Adolphe Goupil, founder of the house of Goupil.
* Jalabert and Gérôme were pupils and assistants of Paul Delaroche.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Monday, January 7, 2013
Cool Oil Painting Tip #37
Incorporating the ground tone into the finish.
For this portrait vignette artist Samuel Edmund Oppenheim employs the tone of the ground as the highlights of both face and hair. Here marked in blue~
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In the following landscape Daniel Garber uses a coloured ground as the home tone for his colour scheme.
Note just how generously the ground is left bare. Again, here marked in blue~
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Nearly every canvas by illustrator J. C. Leyendecker incorporates the ground tone.
In this detail the ground tone is left as the collars local and used as a neutral within others (locals).
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Samuel Edmund Oppenheim (1901-1992)
Samuel Edmund Oppenheim (1901-1992)
1901 - Born December 24, Minsk, Russia
1906 - Emigrates with his family to the U.S. where they settle in New York City.
1926 - Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts with the popular and accomplished artist Charles W. Hawthorne. About this time he also attends studio classes at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York.
1930 - Commercial artist in New York City. During this period he enrolls at the Grand Central School of Art in the class of Harvey Dunn, whose work follows the tradition of Howard Pyle and whose principles in painting have a lasting influence.
1950 - Invited to join the Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, and becomes associated with Portraits, Inc., New York.
1951 - Elected to membership in the Salmagundi Club, the oldest artist’s club in the country.
1954 - First one-man exhibition at Grand Central Art Galleries.
1966 - Begins teaching at the Art Students League, New York, establishing a popular Friday night class in oil painting, where his monthly demonstrations attract crowds of students. Oppenheim is in demand as a lecturer to various art and civic groups.
1982 - Guest of Honor, National Portrait Seminar, Washington, DC
1992 - May 31, Carnegie Hall, Memorial Program and tribute by John Howard Sanden at National Portrait Seminar
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Master Copy #11
Dean Cornwell after Frank Brangwyn
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| Cornwell after Brangwyn, Cinerarias, gouache on board |
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| Frank Brangwyn, Cinerarias,1922 Oil on canvas, 104.1 x 114.9 cm ; Atkinson Art Gallery Collection |
The Cornwell~
recto
verso
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Frank Brangwyn ~ Nativity Window
Nativity Window, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Bucklebury, Berkshire
The design for this stained-glass window was commissioned by Lady Webley-Parry-Pryse in memory of her mother, Mrs Webley-Parry, who had died on 2 September 1917. Mrs Webley-Parry had given very generously of her time and money in parish affairs. The three-light window is situated in the north aisle of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Bucklebury. The design was executed in glass by James Sylvester Sparrow.
Stained Glass design for the Nativity Window, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Bucklebury, Berkshire, circa 1917
Watercolour, gouache and ink over charcoal on buff coloured paper
63 inches x 16 inches / 160.02 x 40.64 cm
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