Thursday, July 8, 2010

Kindle Edition of Gerard Audran's The Proportions of the Human Body

New Kindle Edition of Gerard Audran's The Proportions of the Human Body

Gerard Audran's The Proportions of the Human Body

Gerard Audran's The Proportions of the Human Body



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Monday, July 5, 2010

Fifty Figure Drawings - Bridgman Publishers

 

Charles Cagle, Watkins Institute, Nashville, Tennessee, James B. Gould, pupil of Arthur Woelfe, Mechanics Institute, New York.

This book was published in 1927 by Bridgman Publishers and consisted of a selection of fifty figure drawings that were submitted to a jury, presumably for the purposes of publishing this book.

 

A. Kitz pupil of Louis F. Bernecker, Mechanics Institute, New York City,  Edwin Kaufman, Cleveland School of Art, pupil of P. B. Travis.


Charles Chappell and Edund C. Gray, pupils of Kimon Nicholaides, Art Student's League, New York

A reprinted edition  and a book by one of the instructors mentioned are available at Amazon.com:

Fifty Figure Drawings  The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Original editions are also available
Fifty Figure Drawings, a Selected Group of the Best Figure Drawings Submitted to the Fifty Best Drawing Jury
Fifty Figure Drawings
Fifty Figure Drawings

Bridgman was a prolific publisher of books about figure drawing. These are Dover reprints

Heads, Features and Faces The Human Machine Bridgman's Life Drawing The Book of a Hundred Hands 


Drawing the Draped Figure Drawing the Female Form One Hundred Figure Drawings

One Hundred Figure Drawings

Samples from Drawing the Female Form are at: Figure-Drawings.com

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Charles Wilson Peale and Rembrandt Peale


Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, left, by Charles Wilson Peale, right.

Rembrandt Peale was the son of the artist Charles Wilson Peale. Rembrant was born in 1778 and Charles Wilson Peale was a contemporary of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, including Thomas Jefferson.

Charles Willson Peale and His World Rembrandt Peale 1778-1860: A Life in the Arts: An Exhibition at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Charles Willson Peale and His World
Rembrandt Peale 1778-1860: A Life in the Arts: An Exhibition at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
WONDER OF HIS WORLD; CHARLES WILSON PEALE
Charles Wilson Peale A Biography
Charles Wilson Peale: Artist and Patriot
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits by Charles Willson Peale and James Peale and Rembrandt Peale