Word: draughtsmanship
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...Pittsburgh was just the place for a man with an embittered soul, a keen eye for the grotesque and a liking for the rough & tumble life of taverns and streets. David Blythe painted drunks, loafers, pickpockets, runaway horses, grinning bill-collectors, swaying stagecoaches. With warm colors and swift, vigorous draughtsmanship, he poked fun at such everyday events as the rump-bumping scramble for mail in Post Office (see cut) or a lawyer braying at a gaping jury in A Court Room Scene...
Occasionally the Professor's imagination, his instinctive sense of design and sure draughtsmanship made him antedate the modern surrealists by two generations with such a drawing as Bridget's Dream, a nightmarish wedding of nightshirts, handkerchiefs, sunbonnets and bed socks (see cut). Generally however, he preferred historical scenes like the Opening of the Erie Canal or The Casting of the Liberty Bell. The Professor viewed the problem of woman suffrage with considerable alarm. He did a satirical series of pictures on the Triumph of Women's Rights. Typical was the scene at the polling place...
What makes the volume really notable is the work of Doris Spiegel, a very fine sketcher who fits her clear, accurate illustrations admirably to the content. It is fun to glance through "Paris to the Life" again and again and study the excellent draughtsmanship and remarkable vivacity of Miss Spiegel's drawings...
...have never been shown before. The twenty-eight books and many separate pages, rich with color and gold, some as old as the ninth century, contrast vividly with the twenty original drawings from Perugino to Watteau. Yet they combine together in presenting an unusual survey of the art of draughtsmanship...
Further sales gave Gibson a chance to study first at the New York Art Student's League, later in Paris. There he acquired the technique he still has, the loose draughtsmanship of the late great Anders Zorn. While in Munich, just before the Spanish-American War, Artist Gibson received a commission for some weekly pictures. A bald nervous little German came around looking for a job. From that followed a long series remembered by all Gibsonians as "The Education of Mr. Pipp...