THE AMERICAN ART BOOK

Yesterday, I took me a trip down to Goodwill with my friend. I decided to venture towards books to see if there was anything of interest, out of the corner of my eye there was a huge thick 500 page tome called "The American Art Book" by Phaidon Publishing. Inside in alphabetical order were 100's of America's most important and influential artist, and for a trifling sum of $2.99 it was mine, ohhhh what a bargain!

I flipped through it and there were some incredible artist and works that I had never heard of. Here are a couple that grabbed my attention.

JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER

It's no surprise he is highly influenced by John Singer Sargent, actually they were good friends. 

He seemed pretty interested in women turned away from you.

Samuel Clemens!

There were so many to pick from but this should give you a very good idea of his work.

THOMAS ANSHUTZ

WILLIAM BAILEY

CECILIA BEAUX

JAMES BROOKS

Frank Duveneck

Exquisite Alla Prima!

Al Hansen

Thomas Hovenden

Alice Neel

  Jack Levine

5:29 PM Gaston Lachaise

WILLIAM BELLOWS

Actually I've seen the one above but forgot about it, I had never known who did it until now. You can feel the movement in that one, it's fantastic!

Dutch Paintings

Trying to learn from the Dutch Masters. 

Most of these were studied from the Utrecht School (active late 1500s to mid 1600s), who were highly influenced by my favorite painter Caravaggio. 

This above is from a painting called "The Roman Charity," this was painted by Dirck van Baburen, Ruebens did 2 versions of this painting but it's not nearly as good as Baburen's interpretation. 

I'm fairly confident that the above is a study of Hendrik Terbrugghen another Dutch master who did lots of paintings of people playing instruments before "slappin' skins."

Frans Hals (also up with Caravaggio in my list of favorite painters).

More of the same but with a Dutch Palace.

Also I haven't posted in a while and may not very soon because I don't have my scanner with me. Just moved here to Seattle and I'm also pretty busy finding a job along with going to school, so have mercy.