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Hazel Rose in Gold Sir John Lavery Art Contrarian: October 2012 | Irish painters, Irish art, Walker art

I should have noted the source at the time, and didn't. But I did read someplace that Norman Rockwell (1894-1978, Wikipedia entry here) lighted his subjects from the direction of the viewer, this minimizing use of shadows. I hadn't thought of that before. And that's true. Though not entirely. Many of Rockwell's cover illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post were indeed front-lighted, and I'm not sure why. Perhaps he explained somewhere, but I don't recall having seen an explanation. (Let…

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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: Ladies of leisure, at leisure - a selection of paintings by Sir John Lavery | Art history, Art painting, Illustration art

Mrs. Osler, Cap d'Antibes, 1929. Lady Astor playing golf at North Berwick, 1921. The Green Sofa (Mary Auras), 1903. My Studio Door, Tangier, 1920. Lady in Red (Mrs. Owen Barton Jones), 1924. The Hall of Argyll House, Chelsea, London - with Syrie Maugham and Sibyl Colefax, 1930. Miss Rosemary Hope-Vere and Bacchus, 1929. Bacchus! Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, 1931. (Study for "Their Majesties' Court, Buckingham Palace", now lost.) Madame Leo d'Erlanger, 1931. (Study for "Their Majesties'…

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