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Midterm Flashcards

1
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Golden age ends in…

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1920

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Winslow Holmer

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Most well-known battlefield artist

  • he would sketch the battle field
  • different artists would do a section and put them together
  • Block of would carved out if white spots
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Edwin Austin Abbey

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Moved to england to research costuming and props

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First American woman to make a living strictly from artwork

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Palmer Franny (Frances Palmer)

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5
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Gibson Girl

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Charles Dana Gibson
Turn of the century ideal sweetheart

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Felix Octavius Darley

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First well known American illustrator, his name would sell a book

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The Yellow Kid

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  • Yellow journalism
  • Vehicle for showcasing color in newspapers (brand new)
  • introduced the use of word bubbles among other things
  • Hogans alley
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The red rose girls

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  • Elizabeth shippen green
  • Jessie Wilcox Smith
  • Violet Oakley
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NC Wyeth

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  • Scribner’s classics
  • First was Treasure Island
  • started in 1911, did 20-25 over the span of 15-20 years
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Mucha

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Best known for his illustrations defining art nouveau

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Howard Pyle

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Founded the Brandywine school

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Frederick Remington

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  • Western paintings
  • Friends with Teddy Roosevelt
  • Middle name was Sackrider
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Joseph clement Coll

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Beautiful landscape drawings in PEN AND INK, lines would go thicker as perspective came foward

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AB Frost

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Best known for his Uncle Remus’s Tales

Brer Bear, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox

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James Allen St John

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First science fiction fantasy illustrator

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Maxfield Perish

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was NOT a student of Pyle, he showed up but didn’t study

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Harvey Dunn

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WAS a student of Pyle

18
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Coles Philips

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Fadeaway girl, where parts of the dress and background are blent together

19
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Franklin Booth

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Was basing his pen and ink drawings on woodblock print

20
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Heinrich Clay

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Animal drawings for Disney’s fantasia

21
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Known for their line and wash illustrations in the late 19 teens

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Authur Ignatius Keller
Frederic Rodrigo Gruger
Arthur William Brown
Henry Patrick Raleigh

22
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Rolf Armstrong

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known for his drawings of very stylish women

23
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Ashcan group

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group of 8, 4 were illustrators
John Sloan
Everett Shinn
George Luks
William Glackens

Robert Henri was NOT one of them

24
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James Montgomery Flagg

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Uncle sam I WANT YOU

25
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Roaring 20s were exemplified by 2 arists

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John L Junior, JC Leindecker

26
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JC Leindecker

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Known for
- Arrow-collared men
- Sophisticated paintings

27
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Over 100 Saturday evening post covers

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  • JC Leindecker
  • Norman Rockwell
  • John Falter
  • Steve Dohanos
28
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Norman Rockwell

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  • Did over 300 covers for the Saturday evening post
  • Four freedom illustrations
  • 1999 retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim
29
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Rosie Oneil

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Cupie Doll

30
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Pruett Carter

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“An illsutrator is like the director of a motion picture “

31
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Tamara de lempicka

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Art is recognized and exmplified by art deco

32
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Howard Chandler Chrissy

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“gee I wish I were a man poster”, something the Gibson girl would never do

33
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Dean of Illustration

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Dean Cornwell

34
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Rockwell Kent

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  • Social Issues
  • Mobey DIck
35
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Rube Goldberg

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Elaborate contraptions for a simple task

36
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John LaGatta

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  • illustrations of sophisticated groups
  • Backside illustrations
37
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Combat Artists

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  • Ed Reep
  • Kerr Eby
  • Howard Brodie

Bill Mauldin was NOT a combat artist but was still influential

38
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Peter Helck

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Known for his automobile illustrations

39
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Boris Artzybasheff

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Anthromorphization, human qualities to nonhuman things

40
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Robert Fawcett

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Sherlock Holmes

41
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Haddon Sundblom

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Contemporary image of Santa Claus
- with coke
- boy with a dog

42
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Post WW2 Modern Era

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