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John Pototschnik. The living rural artist.
Of the 850+ blogs I have done in the last ten years, I think only three have been about living artists. Maybe I was concerned that they would be upset with what I had written or maybe they would be...
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Hilda Rix Nicholas. Part 1.
Hilda Rix Nicholas (circa 1910) The other day, I was looking through a list of famous nineteenth and twentieth Australian artists. The compiler of the list believed that the...
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Happy Christmas
I would like to wish all my readers a very Happy Christmas. I hope that 2021 proves to be a better year than the present one and that finally the Covid virus is defeated, once and for all. Keep safe...
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Hilda Rix Nicholas. Part 2. Morocco and many family tragedies
Morocco, marketplace with pile of oranges by Hilda Rix Nichols painted during one of her two trips to Tangier It would have been almost impossible to actually paint plein air in oils in the chaotic...
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Hilda Rix Nicholas. Part 3.
The Pink Scarf by Hilda Rix Nicholas (1918) In March 1918, Hilda Rix Nicholas left England on a sea voyage back to Australia. She and her late husband’s brother, Athol Nicholas, arrived in Melbourne...
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Hilda Rix Nicholas. Part 4.
Hilda Rix Nicholas (1910) Many of Hilda’s works were sold and the success of the exhibition led to many of her Australian...
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Ernest Biéler
The Braiding of Straw by Ernest Biéler If you went into a room, on the walls of which were a large number of paintings by the great artists of the past but...
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Ralph Hedley. Part 1
Self portrait by Ralph Hedley (1895) In this blog I am once again returning to nineteenth century social realism art. Today’s artist was a...
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Ralph Hedley. Part 2.
In School by Ralph Hedley (1883) Another of Hedley’s paintings projecting school life was his 1883 work, In School. The boy in the painting was John Irwin, the...
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Alphonse Mucha. Part 1
Alphonse Mucha in his Paris studio on Rue de Val de Grace (c. 1899) The artist I am looking at today is a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist, who spent the...
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Alphonse Mucha. Part 2
Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris (World’s Fair) 1900 The year 1900 was a momentous one for Paris as it staged the Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris...
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Alphonse Mucha. The Slav Epic Part 1.
Alphonse Mucha in New York in 1908 During his time working on an Austro-Hungarian commission to paint the murals for the...
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Alphonse Mucha. The Slav Epic. Part 2.
Master Jan Hus Preaching at the Bethlehem Chapel: Truth Prevails by Alphonse Mucha (1916) We have now reached the eighth in the series of twenty paintings by Alphonse Mucha in his Slav Epic...
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Alphonse Mucha. The Slav Epic cycle. Part 3
My fifth and final blog about Alphonse Mucha’s looks at the last six monumental paintings in his Slav Epic cycle and I will talk about the current fate of all twenty of the works of art. The...
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Frederick Maxfield Parrish. Part 1.
Maxfield Parish (c.1920) In previous blogs, when I looked at the world of illustrators and the lives of some of the leading nineteenth...
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Maxfield Parrish. Part 2.
Maxfield Parrish in 1896 More and more illustration commissions came in to Maxfield and soon he was becoming financially sound. In 1898, with money earnt...
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Maxfield Parrish. Part 3.
Maxfield Parrish In 1914, before Maxfield Parrish had completed the Florentine Fête murals, the Curtis Publishing company, through Edward Bok, decided...
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Maxfield Parrish. Part 4.
Daybreak, by Maxfield Parrish (1922) Maxfield Parrish referred to Daybreak as his Magnus Opus. It is a blend of the sentimentality of the...
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Lilla Cabot Perry. Part 1.
Self portrait by Lilla Cabot Perry (1913) The artist I am looking at today, born Lilla Cabot, comes from a long line of powerful and wealthy descendants....
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Lilla Cabot Perry. Part 2.
Portrait of Alice Frye Leach by Lilla Cabot Perry (c.1880) It was in 1889 that Lilla Cabot Perry first encountered Claude Monet’s work at the...
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