This symbolist watercolor painting by the important Austrian artist Paul Grabwinkler shows a luscious nude on the cliffs with a skeleton at her feet.
Artist: Paul Grabwinkler
Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
This symbolist watercolor painting by the important Austrian artist Paul Grabwinkler shows a luscious nude on the cliffs with a skeleton at her feet.
Artist: Paul Grabwinkler
Andre Durenceau, the French-American illustrator and muralist, mines his Jewish heritage in this symbolist 1950s imagining of the sanctuary of a synagogue. Evoking horror and hope, this severe surrealist image presents a vision of resurrection in the aftermath of World War II. The oil on canvas is technically refined, and filled with historically resonant Judaica imagery from biblical to modern times. This piece, titled Invitation, has both the scope of mural art and the narrative detail of magazine illustration.
Artist: Andre Durenceau
This is a rare American expressionist offering by the “poet of American Indian Painters,” George De Forest Brush. The European trained Brush is best known for his romantic potrayals of Native American life, and his Old Masters inspired portraits of Modern American Madonna and child scenes. The portraits, while they made his name and fortune in the late 19th century, were constraining, and this dark and dramatic symbolist work vividly shows his desire to break free of the stereotype of idealized portrait painter.
Artist: George De Forest Brush