Cecilia Beaux

Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855-1942). A Little Girl (Fanny Travis Cochran), 1887. Oil on canvas. 36" x 29 3/16"



















Cecilia Beaux, Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker), 1898, Oil

Cecilia Beaux was an incredibly productive portrait painter whose work I love in part because she has great technique, and partly because her female subjects look smart and determined.

Tove Marika Jansson (August, 1914–June 2001) was a Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She was the author of, among other works, the Moomin books.

One of her political cartoons achieved a brief international fame: she drew Adolf Hitler as a crying baby in diapers, surrounded by Neville Chamberlain and other great European leaders, who tried to calm the baby down by giving it slices of cake - Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia.

Jansson said that she had designed the Moomins in her youth: after she lost a philosophical quarrel about Immanuel Kant with one of her brothers, she drew "the ugliest creature imaginable" on the wall of their WC and wrote under it "Kant".

The name "Moomin" comes from Tove Jansson's uncle, Einar Hammarsten: her uncle tried to stop her pilfering food by telling her that a "Moomintroll" lived in the kitchen closet and breathed cold air down people's necks.

(From Wikipedia)

Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) was an extremely popular and productive painter during and following the Art Deco age. She was born in Poland and lived and exhibited her work in France and Italy. Her bold, assertvie portraits had a dramatic but cool machined look, influenced by cubism and Art Deco styles.

Isabel Bishop (March 3, 1902 – February 19, 1988) was an American painter and graphic artist, who produced numerous paintings and prints of working women in realistic urban settings. She was widely exhibited in her lifetime, and was recognized with a number of awards including one for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts, presented to her by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. (from Wikipedia)

Violet Oakley

Violet Oakley (1874-1961) was an American illustrator and muralist, who created 43 murals for the Pennsylvania Capitol building in Harrisburg, including the Governor's Reception Room, the Supreme Court and the Senate Chamber.