Hi and thanks for your positive response to my videos. I'll take whatever praise I can get but when it comes from a professional (love your work by the way) it means so much more. Thanks a lot.

Hello again and thanks again for your comment.

Hi there and thanks for your continued appreciation of what I'm doing. It means a lot

Hi again and Vofel was another former unknown for me when I made the video. So many talents from those days, as you rightly observed. Enough to keep me out of mischief for a few more years at least...

Hi again and pleaee restrain yourself from overdoing the videos. I like to think they're entertaining but you might get bored and I'll lose a viewer. And over on this side of the ocean the term 'professor' is reserved for only the highest level academics - and that's certainly not me. I'm deighted to say that my former students say the best thing about me was that I was an working illustrator and actually knew what I was talking about. I know in the States what we call lecturers all get called professors. Pretentious or what?

Hi and thanks very much. I hope you'll continue to watch - and share if you can.

Hello and thanks a lot for the comment. Why it shoud be that the USA had so many talented representational painters, most of whom worked in oils, I have no idea. Just as a plug for the channel I'm currently working on a video devoted to the work of Parrish, which should be uploaded in a few weeks.

Hello and my thanks to you for your appreciation of the channel and its content.

Thanks for the comment. If you didn't know there's a more in-depth video on the channel just about Wyeth you might appreciate.

Hello and thanks for the comment. With luck the next upload - or maybe the one after - will be devoted entirely to Wyeth and his work.

Hello and many thanks for your favourable comment...music to my ears.

Hello and thanks for the positive response to the channel content. It means a lot to me.

Thanks a lot for your coment and apprecatition. I realised some time after I'd made this video that I had squandered the opportunity to look at Wyeth's remarkable work by only giving him a few minutes of attention. So like quite a few others I've now made a video just about his life and work, which is also on the channel.

@@petebeard thanks, glad you wrote back since I forgot the thumb up. Wyeth lived not far from here and the library where I worked on LI had an original of his hanging in their lobby, a Treasure Island illustration. As a youth my friends went to art school and taught me many things in conversation. As a child I went to the Andrew W. art exhibit at the NYC Meto Museum. Theirs was a colorful life with NC as dad for sure...saw the home made film about them...

Hello and thanks a lot for that. Education and therapy all in one package!

Hello and that's extraordinary dedication to the cause. Thanks very much, but even I would rapidly get sick of them watching so many in a short space of time...

Hello and thanks. Your wish is my command - there's a video titled 'The Early Years of Mad' on the channel. It's been up for some time but has suddenly (no idea why) attracted a lot more views. Not that I'm complaining...

Hello and thanks for the appreciation. I must say whether it's over or not I'm past caring about covid now and this year I'll be travelling abroad as much as I can afford to.

Hello and thanks a lot for your comment -it's greatly appreciated.

Thanks again.

Hello and thanks. I would not consider Wyeth - or many other of the American greats to be unsung either. But the majority of my viewers are not American, and many of them are also young and therefore (and I mean it with sympathy) largely ignorant of anything that happened anything more than 2 days ago. I think you might be shocked at how few actually know about what you might consider household names.

@@petebeard Your series is a treasure. You're right, and as an American, I'm probably more ignorant than most! You have put together a unique resource. The art world is doing a forehead slap right now. It is sad to know so many masterful artists die in obscurity, and your homage is a kindness and an honor to them all. I'm a shameless swooning slobbering Andrew Wyeth groupie, didn't know about N.C. till I read thru bio's of Andrew. I need more time on this earth!

Wyeth did the paintings in the Children's Chapel of the National Cathedral.

I agree-nobody paints as well as the american illustrators of that period

Thanks a lot for your comment and I'm glad to have shed a little light on them.

Hello and thanks for the appreciation. And I hope your sister enjoys them too.

Hello again. Thanks for the name - another 'never heard of' so I'll investigate.

Hello and you're not the first. Actually it isn't always a horse - the idea started with the first in the series which I thought made a nice 'heroic' image. And then it became a game I played with myself to see how long I could keep the theme up, and I've occasionally deviated with bears riding pigs and others.

Thanks

Hello and thanks. I've just checked and they are there as far as I can tell. Maybe some youtube glitch?

@@petebeard Can you please see if you mark them to be made visible? In the playlist, they are not showing. These are amazing! Thank you so much for posting these.

@@petebeard They are not showing in the 1 through 10 playlist. I will go back and look at the videos that large to see if I can find them. Thanks.

@@petebeard so sorry. I found them among the videos. I had been listening via the playlist :-). Thanks.

Hi again and that's certainly true (but just to nitpick I'm not sure I'd go as far as 'huge'). And you can see similar getting absorbed into later illustratrs vis Patterson. What baffles me is where the hell Held got his style from. I can't think of any earlier Americans pursuing that geometric approach. Maybe he was that rarest of illustrators - a true original.

@@petebeard maybe the Katzenjamer kids ( not sure about the spelling ) if i remember correctly That was a bit similar but not certain

Hi again and funnily enough I've just finished a piece of the creator of the Katzenjammers - Rudolph Dirks, and his younger brother Gus. That'll appear before too long I hope.

Me gustaría hacer un vídeo sobre él pero no hay suficiente información. Y lo que es más importante, no puedo encontrar suficientes imágenes de buena resolución para mostrar. Si puedo encontrar más lo intentaré de nuevo.

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Hello and thanks for the comment and question. But whatever your reasons are the answer is a very definite no. The copyright in these videos belongs to me and any use of the content created is a breach of my copyright and therefore illegal.

@@petebeard understand!

He certainly is/was.

Hello and thanks a lot for the tip - never heard of him - I'll add him to the list but I haven't got a clue when he'll feature.

Sorry - that happens from time to time in the earlier videos. I'm fairly deaf so I struggled to get a balance. Apparently later ones are better. You can always turn the volume down/off and use subtitles if you encounter others.

Hello again and my apologies. In the interests of even-handedness I try to conceal my general dislike of that generation of American painters, but I don't always succeed. Sometimes the odd derogatory descriptor gets away from me.

@@petebeard Hello Pete I should've made the asterisk and *"kidding"* in bold type. My apology for my schist sense of 'humor'. With Wyeth's quote "Painting and illustration cannot be mixed, one cannot merge from one into the other." ... makes me curious at what point is there a difference? Is it in illustration for advertisement, the image must be read at once while painting it unfolds over time? Though, repeatly viewing your very well made videos I enjoy pausing and taking time to look at an illustration. Or, is illustration butt wipe for the masses? Uncoated paper. My sister once said you could spent days creating one frame of a 'cartoon' for a periodical yet people think it took or should have taken a minute or so to sketch it out. Same goes for the price. Some people don't understand the value of an illustration. I was interested to read Norm Saunders was initially paid $1.25 per hour for his pulp work. Roomfulls of pulp artwork were trashed by publishers thinking they were a dime a dozen. Anyway, something to wonder about as I enjoy your art presentations *Thanks*

P.s. 😏 Gonna appreciate the British understatement. Pompous to disain for a whole generation of American painters. O.k., but ... Where does that leave the expatriate John Singer Sargent, others i.e. Whistler.? Do they get a free pass? Note: respect your opinion. Best

I should have clarified - my lack of enthusiasm for representation in early 20th century illustration (and art for that matter) is without national bias. I'm no fan of the pre-raphaelites either. It's just that 'realism'I generally shows a certain lack of imagination compared to more individualistic approaches. At heart I'll always prefer a cartoon.

@@petebeard Understood from previous comments of yours representationalism isn't your ... well, cup of tea. And, yea, lot of it in those times. *Enjoy* your portfolio work. Very positive. My favorite is MotorHead guy with chihuahua. Seen heavy metalists* after a hard night in the mosh pit go home to their toy pet ... and petite girlfriend. Plug for Gahan Wilson. Hell Boy. If there is ever a fun compilation of cartoonists video. Martin Scorsese's "After Hours" is a period piece of those times but its a movie. Maybe storyboard illustration. * punks, skinheads, goth, anything dressed in black.