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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Morris Graves

Sanderlings, circa 1943

Morris Cole Graves (August 28, 1910 – 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 was also a mystic.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

A Canadian artist: Emily Carr

Study in Color and Form 1911

Overhead, 1933

Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a modernist and post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life. As she matured, the subject matter of her painting shifted from aboriginal themes to landscapes, and in particular, forest scenes. As a writer, Carr was one of the earliest chroniclers of life in British Columbia. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as a "Canadian icon".

Erich Krantz

Friedrich Road, Friedrichstraße, 1930, Oil on canvas

Waldemar Lorentzon

Båtparad (Boats)1953

Peter Frie, eliopaintings

Peter Frie - Eliopainting #10, 2009

Peter Frie - Eliopainting #23, 2009

credits: galerieforsblom

Balthus, Nude with Cat

Nude with Cat, 1949

Balthasar Klossowski (or Kłossowski) de Rola (February 29, 1908 in Paris – February 18, 2001 in Rossinière, Switzerland), best known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist.

Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. He insisted that his paintings should be seen and not read about, and he resisted any attempts made to build a biographical profile. A telegram sent to the Tate Gallery as it prepared for its 1968 retrospective of his works read:
"NO BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS. BEGIN: BALTHUS IS A PAINTER OF WHOM NOTHING IS KNOWN. NOW LET US LOOK AT THE PICTURES. REGARDS. B."

Alexander Young Jackson

Winter, Quebec, (1926)

St. Urbain, 1933

Alexander Young Jackson, CC CMG (October 3, 1882 – April 5, 1974) was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven.

Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was successful in bringing together the artists of Montreal and Toronto.He exhibited with the Group of Seven from 1920. In addition to his work with the Group of Seven, his long career included serving as a war artist during World War I (1917–19) and teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts, from 1943 to 1949. In his later years he was artist-in-residence at the McMichael Gallery in Kleinberg, Ontario.

Adele Alsop

credits: http://www.adelealsop.com/