tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48055069769323255292024-03-12T20:33:01.011-07:00ARTzink StudioFINE ART Digital Printing,
Graphic Design and Production Studio.
Musings and reminiscing on Art, Design, Music, Daily Life in Ottawa, Friends, Gossip, Life in This City, Enjoyment of Vintage and Reclaimed objects, Cool people and places, Cats and so much more are my favourite pastime...Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comBlogger214125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-13666400610000098012018-11-19T07:28:00.001-08:002019-02-08T05:18:34.842-08:00Commercial Studio WorkHello Possums,<br />
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Many of you know that it's been quite a while since I was commercially available..<br />
ARTzink is a mere <i>nom de plume</i>, which as an artist I have been attaching to the many incarnations of me for a very long time.<br />
I like the ring of it, it has the ink in it, the zink for a painting gesso and above all - ART.<br />
I may even opt to have it written on the urn with my ashes, before those precious remains are dumped in the Artctic Ocean.<br />
This blog does not sell anything, it just records my enthusiastic creative pursuits so it can be shared among my friends, fans and family. <br />
Thank you and Love you.Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-48618826922749148352018-11-19T07:19:00.001-08:002018-11-24T09:50:24.004-08:00Jaws of BorrowdaleEver since the purchase of the delightful romantic utmost picturesque view I was inquiring about its provenience. I did not have success with the brief North American thread; <br />
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Once I assumed search by trying to identify the landscape it actually represents I was a lot more lucky.<br />
<i><b>Derwentwater towards the Jaws of Burrowdale </b></i>is most likely the landscape my painting represents.<br />
Here is a view of the mountains from a bit different angle.<br />
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This beautiful scenery inspired many artists.<br />
The genre begun with detailed, highly atmospheric landscapes by Flemish artists.<br />
It was then continued by Italian and French painters, such as Claude Lorraine, Poussaint and others.<br />
The Romantics, however, dispensed with the layer of mythological or social figurative or architectural elements.<br />
It bloomed in Scotland at the turn of the 18/19 century with the Edinburgh College of Art furthering the style. The need for the artists to travel and transport the work led to increased popularity of aquarelle paint. I guess I will look again into my portfolio of watercolor images of mountainscapes by Sir William Edmond Logan. I have a burning suspicion that one of his works depicts the Jaws of Burrowdale too.<br />
I will make another post about it so stay tuned....Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-26493984551449703582018-11-18T17:51:00.000-08:002018-11-19T17:52:40.653-08:00<img alt="https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.caseantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/auctions/2015-01-24/123_4.jpg" class="shrinkToFit" height="553" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.caseantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/auctions/2015-01-24/123_4.jpg" width="640" /><br />
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<b>Portrait of a pastor's wife<br />
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It gave me an uneasy feeling of lack of ownership...<br />
Well, of course, I do not own it, Mr. or Mrs Google owns it and I play with the words and pictures on this platform at other entities discretion.<br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">I have for forwarded my research around the beautiful romantic landscape painting I had purchased earlier.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138;">It is not signed so I have been tracing its possible via stylistic analysis.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138;">So here is food for thought.</span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138;">Definitely it is not a German style painting but Scottish and most likely depicting the region of Cumbria.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Look at those two paintings by <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Charlotte Nasmith</span></b>.</span><br />
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She was a daughter of Alexander Nasmith.<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Alexander Nasmyth</b> (9 September 1758 – 10 April 1840) was a Scottish <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_art" title="Landscape art">landscape</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting" title="Painting">painter</a>, a pupil of Allan Ramsay. (...)</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;">Nasmyth's six daughters all became notable artists. His daughters were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Nasmyth" title="Jane Nasmyth">Jane</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Nasmyth" title="Barbara Nasmyth">Barbara</a>, Margaret, Elizabeth, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Nasmyth" title="Anne Nasmyth">Anne</a> and Charlotte.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nasmyth#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> His eldest son, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Nasmyth" title="Patrick Nasmyth">Patrick Nasmyth</a>, studied under his father, then went to London and attracted attention as a landscapist.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EB1911_1-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nasmyth#cite_note-EB1911-1">[1]</a></sup> </span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EB1911_1-6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nasmyth#cite_note-EB1911-1"><span style="color: #b45f06;"></span></a></sup>(Wikipedia)<br />
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Having at the moment on access to any European collections I had to relay on an online research.<br />
Dropping of the German thread, I decided to try to identify the landscape on my painting, the particularly shaped mountain with two peaks and a cascading side and place it in a 18/early 19th century context.<br />
<i>Et voila</i>, I immediately recognized the the hill, the lake painted just slightly at a different angle, the sail boats, that shimmering golden air of Romanticism and of the mastic varnish.<br />
The warmth of this discovery was quite remarkable. <br />
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Yes, my initial attempt at cleaning the surface was a serious mistake.<br />
However, the waxy for i extracted pointed to the varnish being mastic.<br />
It is also the clue that the landscape was painted before ca 1830 since more prevalent later Damar varnish was not in use earlier. I have also found that while Damar varnish used to contributing to more distinctive yellowing of the paint surface, Mastic did rather darken it.<br />
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So armed with this assumption I have successfully neutralized most of the wax and coated the rest of the canvas with Mastic. Mastic does not harden as much as Damar, it gave a gorgeous sheen.<br />
This beautifully smelling mixture of natural resin (the <i>Tears of Chios</i>) and turpentine has brought the painting to a spectacular light.<br />
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I will surely one day travel to Scotland and devote more research to the subject.<br />
As a younger person I did not quite understand the development of the Romantic style.<br />
But now I am beginning to understand, particularly after reading Goncourt's <i>French Eighteenth Century Painters</i>) (1859–1875) comments on the artistry of Watteau.<br />
The "back to the Nature" was the first underlying prompt, away from the stifle air of the cities, away from stiff and formal clothing. The air of Liberty was surely filling the sails.Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-33438441799034246672018-07-01T12:43:00.000-07:002018-07-01T12:48:54.275-07:00Wellington and BlucherThe love of print still going strong...<br />
The most recent acquisition is this impressive in its size steel engraving by Lumb Stocks, RA.<br />
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it follows the wall mural at the Westminster by Daniel Maclise, RA representing - what else the Brits kicking French ass (sorry....) at Waterloo. Or rather, the battle's aftermath.<br />
It is heavily imbued with the winners vs losers iconography: Wellington in the highlight and Bluthe in the shadows, the British solders in Roman helmets with plumage, the horse making its way in the knee-high carnage. Ohhhh, the Brits with solemn yet "just" faces, the French in their <i>shacos</i> are sad and lost.<br />
The prints edition from 1876.<br />
Original frame in serious need of repair, but recoverable.<br />
I have replaced all brutally simple acidic backing with the ph balanced board and will insert clear acrylic instead of old seriously green glass.<br />
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The description from Doe & Hope Auction site<br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>These line engravings were published by The Art Union in 1876 after the
1868 original wall painting by Daniel Maclise in the Royal Gallery at
the Palace of Westminster. Wellington and Blucher mounted on horses,
with cavalry behind them, shake hands in front of ruined building
surrounded by numerous mounted and dismounted soldiers and bandsman;
dead and wounded lying in the foreground. The French army is seen in
pursuit along the road behind. A somewhat fanciful rendering of one of
the great melodramatic moments in history.<br /><br />Late in the evening on
the day of the battle of Waterloo (Sunday, June 18th. 1815) Wellington
and Blücher met on horseback outside the somewhat battered but aptly
named La Belle Alliance inn where they briefly shook hands and
congratulated each other on their victory. "Quelle affaire!" the elderly
Prussian Marshal exclaimed, - Wellington said afterwards that was all
the French he knew. Blücher also suggested La Belle Alliance would be a
good name for the battle, but the Duke made no reply.<br />Following the
meeting of the victorious leaders, during the rest of the night the
Prussians pursued the remnants of the routed French army, from the inn,
down the road toward France by which they had come.<br /><br />Daniel
Maclise, R.A. (1806 -1870) was an Irish historical painter whose fame
rests chiefly on a series of lithograph portraits of contemporary
celebrities and on two vast frescoes that he painted in the Royal
Gallery in the House of Lords, of which this is a copy of one.<br /><br />Scale, originality, texture, grandeur; these really must be seen - stunning.
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Beautifully polychromed and visibly worn. <br />
Carved in a most darling manner - the wide coat, the style of the hand, the crescent moon, all so lovely.<br />
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The expression is that of an old aunt saying:<br />
Didn't I tell'ya, Just keep on loving and everything's gonna be alright...<br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“Detail of a miniature of God creating the sun and moon.”, <i>Bible historiale</i>,
f. 5v by Guyart des Moulins and art by “The Master of the Bedford
Hours, and the Master of the Cite des Dames according to Meiss,…”,
Paris, France c. 1420 via <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bl.uk%2Fcatalogues%2Filluminatedmanuscripts%2FILLUMIN.ASP%3FSize%3Dmid%26IllID%3D60211&t=MWU1ZDMzMDhmOTlhMDYwZjVhZmRmZmIyNzA5NGNmMjg2Nzc5MDM0YyxLTVR2Wmt6ZQ%3D%3D&b=t%3A8iDqEQN7ItY-JkSBHMsjRw&p=http%3A%2F%2Fopenmarginalis.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F140883452808%2Fdetail-of-a-miniature-of-god-creating-the-sun-and&m=1" target="_blank">The British Library</a>, Public Domain</td></tr>
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Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-48919107105124450022018-03-17T05:49:00.000-07:002018-05-21T08:09:27.221-07:00Old ParisThis book, a small album of panoramic photos from the 20-ies and earlier, bought early this spring.<br />
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Marvelous find. The enlarged images on rough heavy paper are simply spectacular feast for the eye.<br />
The shot of the Opera is particularly splendid as it shows an authentic and lively human interaction of that day. On the right side there is a group of two women and a man seen from behind.<br />
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The fashion of the period dictated light loose jacket, gloves and a hat.<br />
For a man - obligatory Panama hat, after all it is no longer winter!<br />
The women remind me the way my grandma and her friend Nellie (we thought it is aunt Tralalla at first...)<br />
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<br />Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-86498906631872965522018-01-27T05:59:00.001-08:002018-01-27T06:22:55.829-08:00Early Collodion Prints<span style="color: #f6b26b;">I have seen such photographs before, but never up-close.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">This is the recent acquisition, from a young antiquarian and a collector of old photographs.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Most of his collection comes from Fredericton, New Brunswick - on the Atlantic side of Canada.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Some of the smaller photos I had purchased bear the embossed mark of Harvey, 164 Queen Street, F'ton N.B. The studio still exists, but doesn't bear any traces of its past...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Other photo, portrait of some Mr. Johnson and another man comes from a studio of Norman B. Henry in Clint, Ontario. I cannot locate any traces of the photographer, but there lives Johnson family.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Another yet from Belleville - Brock & Co.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Beautiful golden tones and surprisingly neutral-to-friendly facial expressions!</span></i>Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-32253407348233197482017-12-26T05:53:00.002-08:002017-12-28T06:33:22.294-08:00Venice at ChristmasSnowy and cold holidays in Ottawa.<br />
The weather forecast is hopeful: cold and sunny, with a chance for happiness.<br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">It was November 1st, 36 years ago, there was a massive whiff of cold, damp fog and very uncertain weather that hit my face. I decided not to get off, I pressed on and went to Rome.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Venice remains this place I do not go to see, sheltering it from disappointment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">I almost prefer to hold to the imaginary Venice: <br />a slice of Josip Brodsky against the Canaletto background...</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Like this Venetian teapot and a cup - the melancholic object can be rearranged, moved around, serve many occasions.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Oh, and don't get fooled by the fat crest with two lions back-stamp: this is not England my dear, it is pure China designed in Italy. Lovely nevertheless. </span>
Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-66168006675589801262017-07-30T18:32:00.000-07:002017-07-31T06:55:34.753-07:0019th c Cuteness Overload?<br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet</b>,</span> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Academy" title="Royal Academy">PRA</a> ( 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood" title="Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood">Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</a>.<br />
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His wife was previously married to the critic <span style="color: #e69138;"><b>John Ruskin</b></span> whose support for Millais early work was probably very instrumental in creating the later success.<br />
Ruskin was a strong proponent of naturalism -"painting from nature only".<br />
He was also an influential social critic and reformer.<br />
I have a pleasure of owning an old copy of his great <span style="color: #e69138;">"The Seven Lamps of Architecture"</span> with remarkable illustrations, such as this:<br />
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But the more minor work of Millais I have been reading about is this:<br />
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I have just a small print - titled <i><b>"The First Minuet"</b></i> and inscribed as <b><i>Hand Printed Facsimile</i> by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., London.</b><br />
It is a fairly old print, nicely embossed, spot-coloured otherwise monochrome print.<br />
Lovely embossed water mark of the printer in the left corner.<br />
I have just carefully cleaned it and now I marvel on the amount of interesting research it triggers. <br />
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The search on the subject of the history of the printer is equally exciting.<br />
The founder, Raphael Tuck was born into a Orthodox Jewish family in the early 19th c in Kożmin, near my home town of Poznań - then within the Prussian partition.<br />
Tuck and his wife Ernestine, married in the eve the 1848 Revolution which in the end was another step into the "Clash of Empires". While still while living in Poland they took to reproducing in the Victorian mode the post cards and other printed decorum.<br />
Emigration to England followed and the family did well in the printing business on the Island.<br />
They mingled well and their son has already become a baron, assumed a coat of arms and continued successfull family business, publishing mostly post cards.<br />
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They operated under this name until 1959, which suggests that I basically finished them...<br />
So, to make the long tale short, whether art reproductions or <i>kitch</i>, the commercial art printing has made some fortunes in the past. Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-51815916719507338592017-06-10T14:57:00.001-07:002017-06-21T04:48:05.286-07:00Qu'Appelle, SaskatchewanThis small water colour on paper, in its original frame entered my life most recently.<br />
Cleaning the dusty glass opened the expanse of the skies and water.<br />
I set the print in archival picture corners and backed the work with museum grade foam board.<br />
The note on its tattered backing paper is made in pencil, in a nice cursive:<br />
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<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Oct. 10th, 1955</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #bf9000;">Thanksgiving </span></i><br />
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The image, the old frame, the aging and the note have pushed me to a melancholic trip in time.<br />
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The effects of the research were very interesting but did not f ill with optimism.<br />
Qu'Appelle is merely a shadow of its vibrant past.<br />
Once a town with commercial viability and successful farming community is now almost gone back to the land.<br />
Once ruthlessly taken from the Cree, it is now a refuse of our industrial civilized efforts. The Laws of Entropy in all natural manifestations.<br />
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It is definitely one of the places I would like to visit, but it may not take place in this life...Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-47661342192732362032017-05-26T05:37:00.001-07:002017-05-26T05:38:35.903-07:00Or, perhaps George Smith?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Classical Landscape </h1>
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Noooo, still rather Bierstadt?
https://visualelsewhere.files.wordpress.comHannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-66395663625450672992017-04-22T18:34:00.001-07:002017-04-26T05:08:17.276-07:00Perhaps another Mount Logan?<h2>
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<b>Albert Bierstadt</b> was a German-born (near Dusseldorf) painter (1830-1902).<br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><i>He became part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_School" title="Hudson River School">Hudson River School</a> in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River" title="Hudson River">Hudson River</a>. Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">romantic</a>, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminism_%28American_art_style%29" title="Luminism (American art style)">luminism</a>. An important interpreter of the western landscape, Bierstadt, along with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moran" title="Thomas Moran">Thomas Moran</a>, is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"> </sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bierstadt#cite_note-1">[1] </a></sup></i></span><br />
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So here it is, a section <span style="font-size: small;">c</span>lose-up.<br />
If it is not Bierstadt then what on earth is it???<br />
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Patching canvas hole and surface conservation ahead...<br />
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Another of his paintings, the actual "Lander's Peak", one in the Harvard Art Collection, has been described as follows: <br />
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<dl><span style="color: #e69138;"><i>This painting is based on sketches and photographs that Bierstadt
compiled in the summer of 1859, when he joined a government survey
expedition led by Frederic W. Lander. But the work is an imagined view
rather than an accurate topographical rendering. Painted and exhibited
in Bierstadt’s New York studio, it is geared to the sensibility of urban
East Coast viewers. With its dramatic sunlit mountain range and
verdant, uncultivated valley, the painting portrays the American West as
an edenic landscape filled with hope and opportunity. It signals the
promise of new beginnings, a resonant theme for a nation torn apart by
civil war.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138;"><i>Bierstadt, one of the first American painters to explore the West,
journeyed as far as the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. Though he
encountered and sketched many Native Americans on his travels, this work
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from: http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/303976 Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-14644916454392908622017-04-12T08:22:00.000-07:002017-04-12T08:25:01.135-07:00Love of print againOf course, I re-enact the desires of my childhood.<br />
My mother took me regularly to museums and old masters galleries - my sister tucked in a pram and I - free to gaze into the Netherlandish skies of Ruysdaels and alike.<br />
Visits in print rooms gave the notion or precision and organization of the visual record.<br />
Soon I realized that I feel very comfortable among the subtly yellowed vignettes, nicely matted, rigidly framed, organized by the tight webbing of drawn scenes.<br />
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Those three are just recently re-framed items, archivally backed or matted.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Henry Jackson Simpson</b> - Loch Logan<br />
engraving on English-made paper by JFHead<br />
Behind - large pin-hole photograph, abandoned church in Nova Scotia, favourite photography subject.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left - the final unveiling of the "oryginal" <b>Frank H. Mason</b> print<br />
The melancholy of the St.Michel, Normandy has great appeal.<br />
The print has yellowed, but has been given archival ecru-coloured spacer mat.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Interestingly, paper moulds are of considerable interest, paper and prints can be dated by identifying the watermarks.<br />
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Apparently, the monogram watermark was introduced ca 1930, but my print has the the whole manufacturers name embossed.<br />
In my days of humble paper making I used synthetic mesh over plastic grid.<br />
Some of my sheets have still survived, some were used by a friend artist to make great works with paint and ink.Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-44547564383252448742017-03-08T19:45:00.000-08:002017-03-12T19:46:29.152-07:00Broads of the World Unite<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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When we are young, soft and supple, March 8 to be something like Monarchy - something we don't know what to think about.<br />
With age, we mature like a good antique and see their total and complete usefulness.<br />
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<br />Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-4150360444624476402017-02-12T15:28:00.003-08:002017-02-12T15:28:47.965-08:00Love of old chinaDid I mention - it is middle of February, it is cold, dark and it is snowing all the time...
Yes, I do tend to acquire various not particularly rare but cute vintage china.
But I am already afraid that it is fragile.<br />
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Here is the way to upcycle the loses, <span style="color: #3d85c6;">sigh of relief....</span><br />
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https://designmixer.com.tr/2011/02/02/made-in-china-art-porcelain-costumes-by-li-xiaofeng/</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-53008966878767977912017-02-11T17:02:00.000-08:002017-02-12T17:12:17.349-08:00English China dress material?In case it all breakes, proceed to the next post....<br />
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Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-16324366038338177132017-02-04T08:46:00.000-08:002017-02-05T04:01:05.705-08:00Polish Army in Canada, 100 Anniversary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Polish Army, so called <span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Blue Army</b></span> was formed offically 100 years ago in 1917 in France, under gen. Haller - after more than a century of occupation by Prussia, Russia and Austria.<br />
But much of the events took place in Canada which - as part of the Dominion - was able to allow the formation. Estimated 20,000 to 25,000 Poles volunteered from North America, mostly US and some from Canada.<br />
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Notably, Methodists of YMCA were helpful in the organization endevours.<br />
(more info here: <a href="http://www.hallersarmy.com/">http://www.hallersarmy.com/</a> <br />
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Initially, the Polish fought in WWI with one goal in mind - Polish independence.<br />
After fighting in WW1 the Blue Army became Polish Army and fought against Bolshevik Russia in 1920. <br />
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This remarkable event has been immortalized in this painting.<br />
<a href="http://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1016425/">http://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1016425/</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Polish Army at Beach</b> by <i><b>C.W. Jefferys</b></i><br />
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<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Charles_William_Jefferys.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Charles William Jefferys.jpg" border="0" class="mw-mmv-final-image jpg mw-mmv-dialog-is-open" height="200" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Charles_William_Jefferys.jpg" width="150" /></a><b>Charles William Jefferys</b> (1869 – 1951) was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians" title="Canadians">Canadian</a> painter, illustrator, author, and teacher best known as a historical illustrator.<br />
Jefferys was one of the War Artists, a program which called selected artists to document the events of wars.<br />
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The painting really expands on the theme of <span style="color: #0b5394;">Blue.</span><br />
At the first glance the sunny landscape of the Lake Ontario coast, the <span style="color: #3d85c6;">blue lake</span> water and <span style="color: #3d85c6;">blue sky</span> merge and the sight of hundreds of naked men bathing seems almost recreational.<br />
But up close we see the seriousness of the scene: the men are bathing seriously, is a part of soldering, the <span style="color: #3d85c6;">blue-</span>uniformed sergeants overlook the operation and everyone knows there is more war ahead... <br />
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More about the artist and his paintings can be found here:<br />
<a href="http://www.cwjefferys.ca/polish-army-bathing-at-niagara-camp">http://www.cwjefferys.ca/polish-army-bathing-at-niagara-camp</a><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: small;">THE POLISH ARMY IN NIAGARA by Janet Carnochan </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: small;">from the cahier #35, Published by THE NIAGARA HISTORICAL SOCIETY </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Niagara, 1923</span> <a href="http://www.niagarahistorical.museum/media/NHS35.pdf">http://www.niagarahistorical.museum/media/NHS35.pdf</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: small;">The United States having declared war, Mr. Ignace J. Paderewski offered to form </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: small;">a Polish Army but the United States Congress did not allow and special legions and onthe 4th of June, France decrees that a Polish Army is to be formed, Canada opens its armsand the best young men are selected from among those of the training school at Cambridge Springs and sent to Camp Borden where Col. Le Pan with his excellent staff Majors Young, Madell, Kirk and Kenrick who had taught from the first 23 young men at Toronto devoted themselves with zeal and l</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: small;">ove to make of them good officers and with them Col. LePan went to Niagara Camp, in October, 1917 to receive three thousandvolunteers and train them. Who </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: small;">was instrumental in getting that sacred historical spot Fort George and Fort Mississsauga could not be learned and those who knew would not tell. I only know there is in Canada a certain high officer who likes to be called the "Godfather of the Polish Army" who obtains from the Canadian Government all the whoobtains from the Canadian Government all the favors and privileges for the Polish Army. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: small;">On 4th November, I witnessed the touching scene when after 125 years of </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: small;">persecution the "White Eagle, Polish banner was unfurled and on the spot where </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: small;">Canadians had shed their blood in defence of their country, a hundred years ago. The banners were given that day to three thousand men who had only been four weeks or lessin the Camp and the Canadian officers were giving the commands in Polish who had no idea about Polish till they met our boys...</span></span></span></div>
Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-31534418767750785762016-12-12T09:23:00.002-08:002016-12-12T11:18:04.967-08:00Christmas approaching<img alt="puchatek-wdziecznosc" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12535" height="282" src="https://tajnearchiwumwatykanskie.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/puchatek-wdziecznosc.jpg?w=640" width="400" />Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-70371851153873753542016-11-27T17:14:00.000-08:002016-11-27T17:14:42.501-08:00Passion for Print & Paper continuesI have scouted few files showing the work of one 19th century Polish artist.<br />
Only four of the files were in the condition that I would edit them for clarity, colour and I had built a vignette for a nice frame they will go into.<br />
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The sites were then built within the Polish-Lithuanian Union, and now are within borders of Poland, Bielorussia, Ukraine or Lithuania.<br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><i><b>Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda</b> (<span lang="be"></span>1807 – 1883) was a
musician, pianist, composer and artist, best known for numerous
sketches of historical sites of present-day Belarus, Lithuania, and
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The works and the geographical span they docomented show the borders of Polishness, of Polish Baroque and Classicism, the Eastern borders of Europe.<br />
We view them with great veneration and remain grateful to Orda's generous spirit.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mir Castle, Poland, presently Bielaruss, reconstructed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Antoniny Palace, Poland, presently Ukraine</td></tr>
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Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-69173041589806590942016-11-08T11:46:00.001-08:002016-11-09T16:19:36.130-08:00WeatherOttawa enjoys amazing weather. It is November 8, the trees are in full colour but the begonias are still in bloom - in short, we did not have a freezing spell. Many flowers still in bloom.<br />
Looks like fall merged with the Indian summer.<br />
Most enjoyable...<br />
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In the meantime, somebody sent me an areal photo over Copenhagen, Denmark.<br />
Greys galore.<br />
<br />Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-67309333700043197502016-10-22T11:27:00.000-07:002016-10-25T07:38:40.809-07:00Frank Mason again....I have made a smaller than original reproduction from my newly aquired old print by Frank Mason. <i>(more on the arrival of the original print <a href="http://artzink-studio.blogspot.com/2016/08/new-acquisitions.html">here</a>)</i><br />
Fitted in appropriate in colour frame and bordered with the fresheness of the Somerset Velvet background.<br />
It depictsSt. Michel off the coast of Normandy, France with the Abbey towering over it.<br />
The print shows boats and people standing in a fairly shallow water - must be when the water is low.<br />
Alas, there is a bridge now, or rather a board-walk, much to the loss of the scenery...<br />
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<br />Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-10829952897427854312016-10-17T07:53:00.000-07:002016-10-22T11:22:15.539-07:00Autumn vs. Fall<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i>Fall </i></b></span><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">and <b>autumn </b>are
both accepted and widely used terms for the season that comes between
summer and winter. Some who consider British English the only true
English regard fall as an American barbarism, but this attitude is not well founded. Fall is in fact an old term for the season, originating in English in the 16th century or earlier....</span>(grammarist.com)</i><br />
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I had spent the Thanksgiving afternoon at the Arboretum and on the grounds of our modest Botanical Gardens<i> </i>at the Experimental Farm.<i></i><br />
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Filling a gap after the theft of the original, perhaps this could do in a pinch...<br />
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A replacement piece for my father.<br />
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<br />Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805506976932325529.post-91712987586377708412016-09-15T10:00:00.001-07:002016-09-25T06:55:02.361-07:00Majuba Dawn<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yUy6Gg8ai_M/V9rTh8u0E2I/AAAAAAAACE8/W6fwUcrCvSECM5F7uD8KpECsflSWIloXwCLcB/s1600/MarchingAsToWar2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yUy6Gg8ai_M/V9rTh8u0E2I/AAAAAAAACE8/W6fwUcrCvSECM5F7uD8KpECsflSWIloXwCLcB/s320/MarchingAsToWar2.jpg" width="179" /></a>I have been reading Pierre Bertons "<b>Marching as to Wa</b>r".<br />
It is an absolutely great read, that satisfies both my interest in History and in the images of War Art.<br />
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The book was released about 15 years ago and probably everyone read it then. After years of too much work and raising kids, I enjoy this book now.<br />
It gives accounts of Canadian military and political involvement in the major world conflicts, starting with the Boer War.<br />
I did not know nearly enough about it, so the details are captivating.<br />
The description of events surrounding the capitulation of the poor Dutch farmers.<br />
The "Dawn of Majuba Day" was one of those mornings he brings up.<br />
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Several years ago I had created an impressive in size and appearance reproduction of a painting by <b>Richard Caton Woodwille</b>, Jr, an English painter, known for his battle scenes. <br />
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The battle ended with the British defeat, but the civilian atrocities were most serious, and as I learned later, almost too hard to mention.<br />
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It was <b>Arthur Connan Doyle</b> who passed the message to Chamberlain.<br />
This was a story of Lizzy, a girl of Dutch descent who was dying of starvation in a lazareth managed by the British stuff. Unable to speak English, week and confused by the ravavges of war she was mistreated by doctors and nurseds as nuisance when calling for her mother.<br />
Lizzy died at the age of seven. <br />
The subsequent coverage by the press brought the to focus the civilian cost of the military conflicts. <br />
We learned more of Concentration Camps in subsequent wars.Hannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16087864240819435206noreply@blogger.com