—Elizabeth Taylor
Artist: Nicolaes Maes (Dutch, Dordrecht 1634–1693 Amsterdam)
Date: ca. 1655
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 18 in. (54.6 x 45.7 cm)
Artist: Charles Biederman (American, 1906–2004)
Date: 1938
Medium: Painted wood and acrylic
Dimensions: 30 3/4 in. × 21 7/8 in. × 4 in. (78.1 × 55.6 × 10.2 cm)
Railyard workshop, Kamloops, BC
—Gary Cooper
Artist: Nicolaes Maes (Dutch, Dordrecht 1634–1693 Amsterdam)
Date: ca. 1656
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 in. (45.1 x 52.7 cm)
Jewish Boy Selling Thread and Sewing Materials on the Street, Warsaw, Poland, 1916
Artist: Charles Sheeler (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1883–1965 Dobbs Ferry, New York)
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 1/8 in. × 34 in. (63.8 × 86.4 cm)
Head of Muse
created between 1508-1511
Used as a study for one of his frescoes in the Vatican.
Black chalk on paper
—Gene Kelly, photo by Gjon Mili, 1944.
Artist: Jan Steen (Dutch, Leiden 1626–1679 Leiden)
Date: ca. 1660
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 34 x 39 in. (86.4 x 99.1 cm)
Brigitte Bardot, for “Vogue” 1950
Artist: Edward Hopper (American, Nyack, New York 1882–1967 New York)
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 48 1/4 x 60 1/4 in. (122.6 x 153 cm)
Cooper’s comment, quite insightful. The way a good actor should think and feel.
The Audrey Hepburn photo is one of the most un-Avedon pictures I’ve ever seen by Avedon.
The Poles really elevated movie and theatre posters to some whole new level for a couple of decades.
Yes, the Avedon Hepburn pic is atypical. Polish artists really elevated movie posters to a level of brilliance.
Another excellent Friday Photos entry, Robert.
I love the Packard, the Auburn Boat Tail, Gene Kelly, BB, etc. but I am fascinated with Raphael’s Head of Muse drawing. The hair and neck seem to be a casual sketch (maybe something I could have done!), but then you see the eyes and realize a master did this. 🙂
Enjoy your Sabbath everyone…
In the art world, the best measure of talent is the quality of drawings not paint. This Raphael sketch demonstrates the wisdom of that saying.
The kids are getting big and looking good.
“I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.”
Original words of Julius Caesar when giving the ashes and signet of Pompey to Pompey’s widow.