American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood. Profiled are Dr. Byron McKeeby (a dentist) and the artist’s sister, Nan Wood Graham. The house in the background is the Dibble House, located in Eldon, Iowa. Wood had a sketch of the house to start the painting, and later received a photograph to complete it. […]
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Frazetta’s Death Dealer II was painted 1978, and is considered the pinnacle in Frank Frazetta’s career. The first Death Dealer was the cover for the rock band Molly Hachet’s first album. Frazetta’s 1971 depiction of Conan the Destroyer defined the look of the character, originally created in 1932. Death Dealer I Death Dealer II
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The Card Players is a series of five oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. The models for the paintings were local farmhands, some of whom worked on the Cézanne family estate, the Jas de Bouffan. All were painted between 1890 and 1895.
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Leonardo’s The Madonna Litta (1490) features Mary nursing the infant Jesus and is displayed in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was featured in the film, The Da Vinci Code, a fictionalized look at Leonardo’s work. About the Artist: Although best known for his art, da Vinci was also very knowledgable in the
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Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel (Brueghel) the Elder There were actually three painted, the first,a miniature, was painted on ivory, and was lost, the remaining two (below) were completed in 1563. The painting appears as the main element on one box art design of the video game Civilization III, and appeared in Call of
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Art Instruction Schools is better known as Art Instruction, Inc., is a home study correspondence course providing training in cartooning and illustration. The school was founded as the Federal School of Applied Cartooning in 1914 as a branch of the US Bureau of Engraving. The company is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Traveling circuses routinely used brightly painted ones to lure paying customers to their quirky sideshows of freaks and curiosities in the early 1800s. The art of creating these tempting come-ons via painted posters was an art form perfected by the likes of Chicago artist Fred G. Johnson. Avery The Master Hypnotist by Fred G. Johnson
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Fred G. Johnson was a famous circus sideshow banner artist from Chicago. His paintings were used to advertise sideshows throughout the United States over much of the 20th century. Today his banners are highly collectible. The Mermaid by Fred G. Johnson Ironically, to our knowledge, no pictures of the artist, who died in 1990,
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Fred G. Johnson was known as the ‘Picasso of Circus Art.’ His works are never found ‘flat’ as the were always folded or rolled as the shows came and left large and small municipalities. Alive By Fred G. Johnson You can see more of Mr. Johnson’s work here: http://www.pinterest.com/laquitajean/fred-g-johnson-banner-painter/
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