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Madonna and Child (c.1482-83) by Francesco di Simone Ferrucci at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Morris Cole Graves (Fox Valley, Oregon, August 28, 1910 – Loleta, California, May 5, 2001) was an American expressionist painter. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, he founded the Northwest School. Graves' early work was in oils and focused on birds touched with strangeness, either blind, or wounded, or immobilized in webs of light. In later years and especially at the end of his notable career, Graves returned to sculpture, originally created forty years earlier, and received critical acclaim for his Instruments of a New Navigation, works inspired by NASA and space exploration. Morris Graves died the morning of May 5, 2001 at his home in Loleta, hours after suffering a stroke.
[Oil on canvas, 79.0 x 89.1 cm]
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Norman ironwork on the door of All Saints Church. The Church of England parish church of All Saints dates from the 12th century, and the clerestorey and possibly the west end of the nave survive from this period. A Norman doorway survives, although not in its original position, in the baptistery.The chancel and north transept are 13th century and the west chapel is 14th century. The north chapel is a late mediaeval Perpendicular Gothic addition[6] with 15th-century windows.All Saints has a central bell tower, which was reduced in height in 1645 after it was damaged by a cannon-ball in the English Civil War.Faringdon was fought over because it commands the road to the Radcot Bridge over the River Thames.
Front of the promotional postcard we designed for the upcoming Art vs. Craft (July 7 & 8). We will be there with even more new stuff! Bring your dollars!
Oh, and if you come be sure to wish James a "happy birthday."
As much as I want to be an art journaler I find it very difficult to add words to my pages. Here I know what I want to say, I just don't want to be unhappy with the look of the letters.
Quilled art piece created by Kathleen Usova of deviantART.com.
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Frank Duveneck (October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and portrait painter. His work, at first ignored, when shown in Boston and elsewhere about 1875, attracted great attention, and many pupils flocked to him in Germany and Italy, where he made long visits. Henry James called him "the unsuspected genius" and at the age of 27 he was a celebrated artist.
In 1878 Duveneck opened a school in Munich, and in the village of Polling in Bavaria. His students, known as the "Duveneck Boys", included Twachtman, Otto Bacher, Julius Rolshoven, and Herman Wessel. In 1886 he married one of his students who was much admired by Henry James, Boston-born Elizabeth Boott. They lived in Bellosguardo for two years where she produced a son. She died later in Paris of pneumonia. Duveneck was devastated.
After returning from Italy to America, he gave some attention to sculpture, and modelled a fine monument to his wife, now in the English cemetery in Florence. Despite this activity, Elizabeth's death marked a slowing in his productivity, a wealthy man, he chose to lead a life of relative obscurity. He lived in Covington until his death in 1919 and taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
I've begun to incorporate what I'm calling "tracings" into my work. I gesso over images just enough so that I can still partially see them. Then I trace over the basics with pen but redesign the rest. The figure of the woman was from an old b/w photo, and the images of the egg and of the needle and thread were from a book and a magazine, respectively. It sort of feels like I'm "cheating," but there's something incredibly engrossing about reinventing something that already exists by putting your own personal spin on it.