Patience, young grasshopper! (Animals in Art)

Posted in Animals in Art by Christy

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
~Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500611h.html

Because grasshoppers have such powerful jumping legs, people sometimes don’t realize that they also have wings. Grasshoppers use their jumping ability to give them a boost into the air but most are pretty strong fliers and make good use of their wings to escape predators.
~FROM https://www.thoughtco.com/fascinating-facts-about-grasshoppers-1968334

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1. Sculpture of a Grasshopper, Mexico, 1300 / Stone / Barakat Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2. The Plague of Grasshoppers, Germany, c.1400 / Getty Museum Collection, California

3. Still life with fruits, a grasshopper and a butterfly by Maria Sibylla Merian, c.1670 / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany

4. Locusta Germanica.Tab XXIV by Rosel von Rosenhof, c.1746 / Engraving with hand coloring / Pictura Antique Prints, The Netherlands

5. Freshwater Jar with Procession of Grasshoppers, by Makuzu Kōzan I, c.1870/80s / Stoneware with wood lid and ivory knob / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

6. Grasshopper and sunflower by Shibata Zeshin, c.1877 / Woodblock print / Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN

7. French Art Deco Grasshopper Hood Ornament, c.1920s / Bronze on Bakelite Plinth / Deco Interiors, Gloucestershire, UK

8. Corsage Brooch with Grasshoppers by René Lalique, c.1920 / Molded glass, nickel silver, marcasite, and pigmented resin / The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

9. Grasshopper by M.C Escher, 1935 / Wood engraving / Limited edition, various collections

10. Dog and grasshopper, 1930 / Porcelain / Musée National Adrien Dubouche, Limoges, France

11. Don’t Be a Job Hopper by Walt Disney Company, 1944 / Poster / Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY

12. Green Grasshopper by Yvonne Rosalind Barlow, c.1964 / Oil on board / Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, UK

13. Locust And Grasshopper by Salvador Dalí, 1967 / Original colored lithograph / Limited edition, various collections

14. The Ant and the Grasshopper by Jacob Lawrence, 1969 / Ink on paper / Paul G. Allen Family Collection

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Grasshopper Found Embedded in van Gogh Masterpiece
https://nelson-atkins.org/grasshopper-found-embedded-van-gogh-masterpiece/

12Sep2023

Autoportrait Day 367~ Anupam Sud

Posted in Self Portraits, Women Artists by Christy

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Artist and pioneering Indian printmaker Anupam Sud (born 1944)

1. Untitled, 1966 / Watercolor on paper / Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India

2. Untitled, 2000 / Pen and ink on printed paper / Private collection

3. Dressing for a Journey, 2000 / Oil on canvas / Location unknown to me
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4. Self, 2007 / Ink on paper / DAG art collection, New York, NY

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2Sep2023

Sam Savitt

Posted in Illustrators by Christy

Equine artist and illustrator Sam Savitt (1917-2000)

Image from Equestrian Living: Remembering Artist Sam Savitt
https://eqliving.com/remembering-artist-sam-savitt/

[Sam Savitt] “started his career doing magazine illustrations, and became well known for his illustrations for Dell comic book covers, for whom he did Western illustrations. He wrote, or co-wrote, 17 books on horses, as well as private commissions and the Sam Savitt series of charts, which were used in the Smithsonian.”
https://janebadgerbooks.co.uk/illustrators/savitt-sam/

The Lone Ranger’s Famous Horse Hi-Yo Silver, No3, 1952 / Dell Comics

Lad: A Dog Anniversary Edition, 1968 / E. P. Dutton, NY

Sea Horse from Sam Savitt’s Book of Horse Nonsense, 1975 / Black Horse Press, NY

Woman with a horse and foal, ND / Oil on canvas / Private collection

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Wikipedia~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Savitt
Field Guide to Wild American Pulp Artists~
https://www.pulpartists.com/Savitt.html
Horse Book Illustrators, Part Three: Sam Savitt~
http://estatesalechronicles.blogspot.com/2014/06/horse-book-illustrators-part-three-sam.html

21Aug2023

Franz Marc (Animals in Art)

Posted in Animals in Art by Christy

Aiming to recreate the animals ‘from the inside’, Marc made himself so complete a master of their anatomy that he felt qualified to teach classes on the subject, though in the end there were few takers. This anatomical knowledge gave him the ability to improvise. From this point on, Marc did not aim to merely copy nature, but to capture the spirit of nature and of ‘animal life’.
~FROM https://www.gseart.com/artist/franz-marc/bio

1. Katze mit Jungen, 1900-1916 / Tempera, oil, pencil on cardboard / Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, Germany

2. Sketch, 1908 / Crayon on paper / Private collection

3. Two Horses, 1908-09 / Bronze / Lenbachhaus München, Germany

4. Yellow Cow, 1911 / Oil on canvas / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC

5. Tierlegende (Animal Legend), 1912 / Woodcut on Japanese paper / Various locations

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Franz Marc~
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Marc

Why Did Franz Marc Paint Animals?
https://www.thecollector.com/why-did-franz-marc-paint-animals/
Franz Marc and the animalization of art
https://smarthistory.org/franz-marc-animal-art/

12Aug2023

Mary R. Bassett

Posted in Illustrators, Women Artists by Christy

American illustrator Mary Robertson Bassett (1841-1933)

“Mary Robertson Bassett illustrated magazines such as Ladies’ Home Journal, and children’s books published by Baker & Taylor Company, Grosset & Dunlap, and other publishers.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_R._Bassett

Frontispiece from Fairy Operettas by Laura E. Richards
1916 / 119 pages / Published by Boston:Little, Brown

Illustration from Fairy Operettas by Laura E. Richards
1916 / 119 pages / Published by Boston:Little, Brown

Illustration from Poems My Children Love Best Of All by Clifton Johnson
1917 / 276 pages / Published by New York, Lloyd Adams Noble

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Author Laura E. Richards~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_E._Richards
Author Clifton Johnson~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Johnson_(author)
The American Illustrators Gallery~ https://www.americanillustrators.com/artists

11Jun2023

Autoportrait Day 347~ Tomie Arai

Posted in Self Portraits, Women Artists by Christy

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

American artist and community activist Tomie Arai (born 1949)

Self Portrait, 1983 / Mixed media on paper / Image from artasiamerica digital archive

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5Jun2023

Autoportrait Day 343~ Elaine de Kooning (revisited)

Posted in Self Portraits, Women Artists by Christy

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

American painter Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989)

1. Self Portrait, 1946 / Ink drawing / Location unknown to me

2. Self Portrait, 1946 / Ink drawing / Location unknown to me

3. Action Self-Portrait, c.1956 / Oil on canvas / Private collection

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8Mar2023

Autoportrait Day 330~ Mary E. Hutchinson

Posted in Self Portraits, Women Artists by Christy

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

American artist and educator Mary E. Hutchinson (1906-1970)

Self-portrait, c.1927 / Painting / Private collection

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29Jan2023

Autoportrait Day 319~ Anna af Forselles-Schybergson

Posted in Self Portraits, Women Artists by Christy

A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries

Finnish painter and drawing teacher Anna af Forselles-Schybergson (1863-1942)

Self-portrait, 1927 / Pastel on paper / Private collection

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23Jan2023

Dandelions in Art, Part 2 of 2~

Posted in Miscellanea by Christy

“Taraxacum officinale, the dandelion or common dandelion, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant, well known for its yellow flower heads that turn into round balls of silver-tufted fruits that disperse in the wind.
The common dandelion grows in temperate regions of the world in areas with moist soils. It is most often considered a weed, especially in lawns and along roadsides, but the leaves, flowers, and roots are sometimes used in herbal medicine and as food.”
~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum_officinale

The Dandelion

O dandelion, rich and haughty,
King of village flowers!
Each day is coronation time,
You have no humble hours.
I like to see you bring a troop
To beat the blue-grass spears,
To scorn the lawn-mower that would be
Like fate’s triumphant shears.
Your yellow heads are cut away,
It seems your reign is o’er.
By noon you raise a sea of stars
More golden than before.
~Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vachel-lindsay

10. Happy, Happy It Is To Be, illustration by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (1891-1980)
https://www.bellusfineart.com/artists/dorothy-pulis-lathrop/
From Walter de la Mare’s Down-Adown-Derry, published 1922, Constable & Co. Ltd, London
https://archive.org/details/downadownderrybo00delauoft/page/58/mode/2up

11. “Certainly, I am a little wild,” remarked Danny Dandelion, illustration by T. Benjamin Faucett (1884-1966)
http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2013/03/ink-slinger-profiles-t-benjamin-faucett.html
From Frolicsome Flowers:They See the Wonderful Rajah Rug, written and illustrated by
T. Benjamin Faucett, published 1924, A. L. Burt, New York
https://50watts.com/filter/forgotten-illustrator/Frolicsome-Flowers-of-Evil

12. The Dandelion (Study for Hide-and-Seek), 1939, by Pavel Tchelitchew (1898-1957)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Tchelitchew
Gouache and watercolor on colored paper / Museum of Modern Art, NYC
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/36474

13. Une Costume ‘Pisenlit’ pour le ballet ‘Tristan Fou, 1944, by Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
https://www.salvador-dali.org/en/dali/bio-dali/
Mixed media and collage on paper / Private collection
https://www.artnet.com/artists/salvador-dal%C3%AD/une-costume-pisenlit-pour-le-ballet-tristan-fou-0JOFE2LX4QngtRB1iuvBg2

14. Dandelions, 1945, by Kate Neufeld (1905-2004)
Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online~ bit.ly/3GZuDjF
Linoleum cut / Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1945.66