TOP ROW; Cadillac advert August 1955; Firestone tires September 1955;
7UP November 1951
SECOND ROW ; illustration to Half-Hearted Wife May
1954; Mrs Gable fakes a painting June 1950; EMCEE August 1947
THIRD ROW Douglas Crockwell, My New Hobby, Beer
Advert, date unknown c1953 ; fiction illustration Decadent Angel August
1949; Tom Cowell, advert for New England Mutual Life, November 1959
FOURTH ROW Fiction illustration Counterfeit Masterpiece,
August 1960; fiction illustration, A Most Beautiful Model, JJuly 1959
; Hitchcock belts May 1950;
BOTTOM ROW Jack Potter advert for Coca-Cola undated c1962 ; Fiction
illustration August 1949; L.S.Johnson, New Yorker cover March 1985
As a consuming public we are at ease when an easel
signifies the presence of the artist. There are ways in which you have
to sit and contemplate as an artist and indeed as a spectator. An implicit
attraction is the presence of the model, quietly smouldering as contemplated
by the artist, whose mind is, of course, far above such matters as
sex. Mrs Gable is pretending to paint a canvas which, on close examination,
turns out to be a painting by Henri Rousseau. I have a similar image
of Dwight Eisenhower doing the same to underpin his artistic credentials
as the Republican candidate for the Presidency, also faking a Rousseau
ARTIST AND STUDIO, THREE GALLERIES IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
ARTIST AT THE EASEL GALLERY
ARTIST IN CARTOONS
ARTIST IN ADVERTISING
ARTIST'S MODEL, a handbook by John Everard 1951 Bodley Head.
THE ARTIST'S WORKSHOP (ESSAYS) Studies in the History of Art, Washington biblio guide
THE DRAUGHTSMAN, compare and contrast
BRITAIN'S ART COLONY BY THE SEA (Cornwall)
GEORGE
EDWARDS, Uncommon Birds Titlepage 1764
EDOUARD
DETAILLE IN HIS STUDIO
THE
SAME WITH RAMPANT HOOVES
ETHEL WRIGHT'S STUDIO with Pierrots
VICTOR PROUVE IN HIS STUDIO 1897 (The Artist)
ARTHUR HACKER IN HIS STUDIO 1898 (The Artist)
GEORGE CHINNERY self portrait at the easel
MILLET SEATED 1898 (The Artist, single)
EDWARD
SAMSON. OH YOU MODERNS 1933
WHEN
THE FINISHING TOUCH SPOILED THE MASTERPIECE, SHELL 1957
REALISM
OUTDONE, an early Baselitz pose
Do Nudes give artists a subliminal thrill? SIR 1959
Paul Dollfus, Artists' Models, Paris 1898
George Hayter's family at work, Introduction to Perspective 3rd ed 1820
Adrian Beverland drawing a Statue, print 1696
ONE LOVE HAD SYLVIA, Lazzolo illustration WOMAN'S JOURNAL, 1938
.J.Schubler , Amor vehementer quidem flagrans Augsberg 1729
J.C.Stephenson, My Studio Window, Drawing and Design 1921
Gordon Coutts,In the Studio, Drawing and Design 1921
Louis Dupre ,Voyage to Athens 1825
Paul Sandby,Young Girl at her drawing board 1760
Johann Klein , The Artists on their journey 1819
Jean Helion, The Studio 1953
Louis Dupre , LOUIS FAUVEL IN HIS HOUSE 1819
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