Month: September 2017

Clive Smith

Clive Smith, “Separate Together”, Oil on Canvas, 2000, 82 x 110 Inches

Clive Smith was born in St. Albans, England in 1967. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Kingston Polytechnic, at Kingston upon Thames, England in 1988. He moved to New York City where he studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League. He currently works and lives in New York.

The painting shown above is from Clive Smith’s “A Stage” Series.

Andrew James Pritchard: ” He Has Oft Times Wondered”

Photographer Unknown, (Rooftop Sweater)

“Aamir, recalling back to the idyllic days of his college youth, pictured himself once again sitting quietly on a familiar neighbourhood rooftop. He often enjoyed relaxing there, alone or with friends, while watching the colourful fluttering prayer flags on rooftop poles, especially in the warmth of an early evening breeze, as wispy clouds drifted against the jagged Himalayan backdrop. He has oft times wondered, ever since his childhood, if the prayers to the spirits of the dead, flying out from those slowly tattering rags, will ever really be answered. Perhaps it will be in another place, in another time, when we’re living another life that we shall finally know. Aamir had calmly thought at the time. He was that sort of philosophical guy.”

–Andrew James Pritchard, One in an Eleven Million

 

 

Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis, “Tree”, Drypoint, Unknown Date, 32 x 25 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum

In 1900, Martin Lewis left Australia for the United States. His first job was in San Francisco, painting stage decorations for William McKinley’s presidential campaign of 1900. By 1909, Lewis was living in New York, where he found work in commercial illustration. His earliest known etching is dated 1915. However, the level of skill in this piece suggests he had been working in the medium for some time previously.

It was during this period that he helped Edward Hopper learn the basics of etching. In 1920, Lewis traveled to Japan, where for two years he drew and painted and studied Japanese art. The influence of Japanese prints is very evident in Lewis’s prints after that period. In 1925, he returned to etching and produced most of his well-known works between 1925 and 1935. Lewis’s first solo exhibition in 1929 was successful enough for him to give up commercial work and concentrate entirely on printmaking.

Walter Simonson and Lee Weeks

Walter Simonson and Lee Weeks Collaboration, “Tarzan vs Predator”, 1996, Dark Horse Comics

In the center of the earth lies Pellucidar, the last bastion of primeval forest in the world. To Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, this is sacred ground. But to the Predators, it is hunting ground. Dark Horse Comics presented Tarzan vs. Predator at the Earth’s Core, by Walter Simonson and Lee Weeks, on January 1, 1996. When Tarzan receives word that Pellucidar’s greatest warriors and strongest beasts are being killed, and his friend David Innes, ruler of Pellucidar, has gone missing, there is no question that he must travel to the earth’s core to investigate. The people of Pellucidar rest a little easier, knowing that their protector is coming. And in this land of eternal noonday sun, the Predators rest up for their greatest challenge yet!