Anders zorn

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The Cigarette Girl

Limited palette, portrait study, portraits, painting. classical realism.

I’m not too fond of “realism”, as so often the subject matter is painted devoid of emotion and focuses instead on technical details that can become superfluous. However, there ar…

Stickande kulla av Anders Zorn 1901 - Anders Zorn - Wikimedia Commons

Midsommar Dance

When I started this blog, my plan was to publicize my favorite works by great illustrators of the past. I had a long list, starting with illustrators such as Leyendecker, Rockwell and Cornwell-- and figured I would soon get to the talented Saul Tepper. Then 12 years went by. I fear that many people share my mistake of treating Tepper as an afterthought: he's an important artist that we'll get to eventually. One reason may be that people rarely see high rez images of his rich, dramatic…

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts.

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