#artist is carl bille

[diioonysus]

blue + art

[corgipixeloof]

so like what if they were friends

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Fantagraphics Rediscovers the Wonders of Marvel’s Atlas Comics

Fantagraphics Rediscovers the Wonders of Marvel’s Atlas Comics #comics #comicbooks #marvel #graphicnovel

Fantagraphics has announced the publication of Fantagraphics Presents the Marvel Atlas Comics Library, a series of hardcover volumes reprinting comics from Marvel’s 1950s Atlas Comics line in both facsimile editions of individual titles and compilations of a single artist. Fantagraphics will publish five volumes a year with the first two volumes releasing in Fall 2023. Sequential reprintings of…

[girlsdressingrooms]

Iris Barrel Apfel, Decorator and Fashion Stylist

(August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024) 

Ms. Apfel was one of the most vivacious personalities in the worlds of fashion, textiles, and interior design, she has cultivated a personal style that is both witty and exuberantly idiosyncratic.

Her originality was typically revealed in her mixing of high and low fashions—Dior haute couture with flea market finds, nineteenth-century ecclesiastical vestments with Dolce & Gabbana lizard trousers.

With remarkable panache and discernment, she combines colors, textures, and patterns without regard to period, provenance, and, ultimately, aesthetic conventions. Paradoxically, her richly layered combinations—even at their most extreme and baroque—project a boldly graphic modernity.

Iris Barrel was born on Aug. 29, 1921, in Astoria, Queens, the only child of Samuel Barrel, who owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye, who owned a fashion boutique.

She studied art history at New York University, then qualified to teach and did so briefly in Wisconsin before fleeing back to New York to work on Women's Wear Daily, and for interior designer Elinor Johnson, decorating apartments for resale and honing her talent for sourcing rare items before opening her own design firm. She was also an assistant to illustrator Robert Goodman.

As a distinguished collector and authority on antique fabrics, Iris Apfel has consulted on numerous restoration projects that include work at the White House that spanned nine presidencies from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton.

Along with her husband, Carl, she founded Old World Weavers, an international textile manufacturing company and ran it until they retired in 1992. The Apfels specialized in the reproduction of fabrics from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traveled to Europe twice a year in search of textiles they could not source in the United States.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute assembled 82 ensembles and 300 accessories from her personal collection in 2005 in a show about her called “Rara Avis”.

Almost overnight, Ms. Apfel became an international celebrity of pop fashion.

Ms. Apfel was seen in a television commercial for the French car DS 3, became the face of the Australian fashion brand Blue Illusion, and began a collaboration with the start-up WiseWear. A year later, Mattel created a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll in her image. Last year, she appeared in a beauty campaign for makeup with Ciaté London.

Six years after the Met show she started her fashion line "Rara Avis" with the Home Shopping Network.

She was cover girl of Dazed and Confused, among many other publications, window display artist at Bergdorf Goodman, designer and design consultant, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97.

Ms. Iris Apfel became a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin in its Division of Textiles and Apparel, teaching about imagination, craft and tangible pleasures in a world of images.

 In 2018, she published “Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon,” an autobiographical collection of musings, anecdotes and observations on life and style. 

Ms. Apfel’s apartments in New York and Palm Beach were full of furnishings and tchotchkes that might have come from a Luis Buñuel film: porcelain cats, plush toys, statuary, ornate vases, gilt mirrors, fake fruit, stuffed parrots, paintings by Velázquez and Jean-Baptiste Greuze, a mannequin on an ostrich.

The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History in Boynton Beach, Florida, is designing a building that will house a dedicated gallery of Ms. Apfel's clothes, accessories, and furnishings.

Ms. Apfel’s work had a universal quality, It’s was a trend.

Rest in Power !

[cephalopodvictorious]

My book just shipped and I'm so excited!

Horrific scenes of anti-Jewish violence in Europe filled the newsreels in American theaters in the 1930s and 1940s. What could be done to make sure it didn’t happen in America? One Jewish organization hit upon a remarkable idea—to enlist some of America’s most beloved cartoonists to wage a war on bigotry. Cartoonists Against Racism uncovers the secret campaign to create anti-racist comics and cartoons to flood America’s newspapers, classrooms, and union halls. Meet the artists and the work that was their ammunition in the battle for America’s soul. The book showcases impactful anti-racism artwork from the era’s preeminent cartoonists, including multiple Pulitzer Prize winners Bill Mauldin and Vaughn Shoemaker; New Yorker cartoonists Carl Rose, Mischa Richter, and Frank Hanley; famed antiwar cartoonist Robert Osborn; Dave Berg of Mad magazine; renowned sports cartoonist Willard Mullin; noted labor cartoonist Bernard Seaman; comics artist Mac Raboy (Flash Gordon, Captain Marvel Jr.); and Eric Godal, who escaped from Nazi Germany and became a leading cartoonist in the American press and acclaimed artist Dick Dorgan.

I'll let you all know how it is

[prikarin]

Regarding Killer Trait Updates

Hello, everyone!

It's been a good minute since my last Killer Trait update, hasn't it?

A lot of people have been asking me about Killer Trait updates and when the full-game will be released so, after a lot of thought, I decided to make this post.

Here's the thing: my Patreon hasn't been doing well. It hasn't been doing well for several months now. While the decline started after Where Winter Crows Go's release in November of last year, it's gotten progressively worse from February 2024 onwards. And because of this I'm going to have to pause my billing for my current patrons from August onwards—at least until I have something new to post.

It'd be a lie if I said this didn't affect me, I'm only human after all, but I'm also well aware that Patreon is a tough thing to maintain in a way that's consistent and interesting.

Unfortunately, since I live in Argentina, my only real way to get funds for my games is through Patreon, donations on Ko-Fi and sales and donations on Itchio. While it definitely helps that I hire some people from Argentina for certain art related things (so I pay them in Argentine Pesos), most of the people I commission are from overseas, so it's always a must to be able to pay them in USD.

And that's the issue: since I don't have that much money anymore and I can't commission people as often... this inevitably delays my progress on both Killer Trait and Potion Pleasing (DEMO out now!) indefinitely. It's sucks for me too, but it's the reality: making games costs money.

As I mentioned in a previous post, Killer Trait will have re-designs for most of the characters (not counting Carl because his design was originally my own) since the ones in the DEMO were stock sprites I bought from an artist, not my own designs. And I want these characters to be 100% my own, which is why I decided to have them re-designed. I've talked about this in the past in more detail when I decided to have Crowe re-designed, you can find that post HERE.

Of course, for these new character sheets (with the exception of Oz's, which has already been finished) and the new sprites, I need game funds in order to commission the artist. Even after the sprites are done, there are a couple of backgrounds—the characters' rooms—that I'd like to have originally made (especially since the ones I bought from Minikle are very limiting and don't really fit with the characters' personalities). And this doesn't even account for CGs, which I'll probably have to postpone for a while because the sprites and the backgrounds are way more important.

Some might be thinking "What about Where Winter Crows Go?". While I was lucky that WWCG's first demo was so well received, I still spent a whole lot of money from my own pocket to make it. I bought a lot of assets and, when I got a few donations, I commissioned a few artists to help me. WWCG was NEVER a game made with only free resources.

Making the art book for WWCG was a way I found to get a little of that investment back, but I'm well aware that I'll never get all the money that I spent back. And that's okay! To this day, I don't regret having invested my money to make WWCG because it gave me a lot of experience, perspective and made me learn a lot.

Be that as it may, however, I can't realistically make the rest of my games free. As I mentioned before, game development is expensive in both money AND time. Without funds, it's a given that things are going to be delayed.

So... where does that leave things?

Well, after pondering on it for a while, I came to the conclusion that I'm not really ready for a crowdfunding campaign right now. Those are extremely hard and ALSO cost money to advertise well and make sure everything's in order. So... the temporary solution I arrived at is setting goals on Ko-Fi! 

How would this work? Basically, I would set a monetary goal of the amount of money needed for a certain asset in a certain game that needs to be made. For example: sprites & character sheets in Killer Trait. Once that goal is met, I'll commission the person in question so they can start working on it! After that, I'll set the next goal and so on 💪

I'm thinking of setting the first Ko-Fi goal once August starts. And from there... I'll see how it goes! If things don't go well, I'm also considering making Where Winter Crows Go paid for a while—don't worry, I would make an announcement first—because I honestly have no more ways of getting game funds for Killer Trait and Potion Pleasing and, as mentioned before, making games is really expensive (and I'm only one person).

Thank you so much for reading until the end and I hope you have an amazing day!

[daimonclub]

Quotes and aphorisms on animals

Quotes and aphorisms on animals Quotes and aphorisms on animals by famous authors, writers, artists and men of science to remind us the importance of animals for our lives and our planet earth. World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare. It is celebrated on October 4 each year, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife. St. Francis De Sales Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Joseph Addison Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats. Woody Allen Man is an animal endowed with reason, but also with much stupidity. Carl William Brown At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Aristotle Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. Pierre De Beaumarchais The dog is the god of frolic. Henry Ward Beecher I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. Hilaire Belloc

Quotes on animals Scientific laws are still a product of man, that's why I, first of all, dedicate myself to the study of this amazing animal. Carl William Brown A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. John Berger Politicians are none of my business… I was struck by the fact that they live a dog's life without the manners of a dog. Rudyard Kipling Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. John Berryman A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler If you take a starving dog and fatten him up, he will not bite you. That is the main difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain The road to understanding man passes through understanding the animal, just as the road to the birth of man undoubtedly passed through the animal. Konrad Lorenz Brothers, love the beasts: God has given them the beginning of thought and peaceful joy. Do not torment them, do not disturb them, do not take away their joy, do not oppose the purpose of God. Man, do not exalt yourself above the animals. F. Dostoevskij Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend. Lord Byron Humans are the only animals that have a highly developed brain; perhaps that is why they are so avidly aggressive. Carl William Brown Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind. Malcolm De Chazal Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal. Winston Churchill Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it. Gabrielle Colette For the warriors of the pre-Christian era, a dragon was a fairly dangerous animal; for the students of the 21st century after Christ, a wasp is a very dangerous beast. Carl William Brown A fence should be horse high, hog tight and bull strong. Author Unknown Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. George Eliot Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? Ralph Waldo Emerson Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. Victor Hugo Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. Georg Hegel Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. Edward Hoagland Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me. Edward Hoagland Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't. Russell Hoban Animals often strike us as passionate machines. Eric Hoffer From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. Victor Hugo The better I know men the more I admire dogs. Author Unknown I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings. King Asoka of India Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats: all human life is there. Henry James Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. D. H. Lawrence I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. Joe E. Lewis Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS! Shirley Lord Eagles do not beget Doves. Motto The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk. Ogden Nash We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better. Native Americans I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal. Friedrich Nietzsche Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door. Charleton Jr. Ogburn The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride. Author Unknown Four legs good, two legs bad. George Orwell In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth. Ouida Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man. Thomas Love Peacock There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe The zebra told the white horse, "I am white," and told the black horse, "I am actually black." African Proverb The fatter the flea the leaner the dog. German Proverb Who loves me loves my dog. Latin Proverb Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them. And, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. Thomas De Quincey No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. Bertrand Russell Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected. Chief Seattle Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals, "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. Edwin Way Teale The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. Henry David Thoreau What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground. Henry David Thoreau An eagle does not catch flies. Author Unknown If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk. Author Unknown Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago. Walt Whitman The best thing about animals is they don't talk much. Thornton Wilder Quotes by authors Quotes by arguments Thoughts and reflections Essays with quotes Read the full article

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EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 5 by Carl Wessler, Al Feldstein, Otto Binder, Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando, Graham Ingels, Reed Crandall and more. Cover by Davis. Out in January 2025.

"Dark Horse Comics brings even more macabrely majestic Tales from the Crypt, now as an affordable paperback! This terrifying tome has been digitally recolored-using Marie Severin's original palette as a guide-and features stories drawn by all-star comic artists Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, George Evans, Graham Ingels, Bill Elder, Bernie Krigstein, Reed Crandall, and Joe Orlando! Featuring a foreword by cult icon Bruce Campbell!"

[jasper-the-menace]

I'm going to be engaging in a reading bingo thing for the library I work at (though I won't be eligable to win any prizes) for January and February. There aren't any rules about only counting one book per square, so there's a lot of fun overlap. The books are as follows:

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Rebecca Thorne)

Diadem: Book of Names (John Peel)

Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under The Sea (Dav Pilkey)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

Give-A-Damn Jones (Bill Pronzini)

Gods of Jade and Shadow (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

Heartbreaker (Julie Garwood)

Hide (Kiersten White)

Marrying the Ketchups (Jennifer Close)

Practical Gods (Carl Dennis)

Sigil Magic: For Writers, Artists, & Other Creatives (T Thorn Coyle)

Strawberry Shortcake Murder (Joanne Fluke)

The Leftover Woman (Jean Kwok)

The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)

The Puppets of Spelhorst (Kate DiCamillo)

The Whittiers (Danielle Steel)

Zendikar: In The Teeth Of Akoum (Robert Wintermute)

17 books in 60 days, most of which are over 300 pages. Let's fucking gooooo!

[tomoleary]

It��s a special treat to find images of artists by artists.

Barry Windsor-Smith by Michael Netzer

Gil Kane by Marie Severin

John Buscema by Bill Sienkiewicz

Frank Frazetta by Marcus Boas

Gene Day by Dave Sim

Al Williamson by Bernie Wrightson

Jeffrey and Louise Jones (Later Louise Simonson) by Bernie Wrightson

Jack Kirby by Michael Cho

Hannes Bok by Virgil Finlay

Carl Barks by Al Hirschfeld

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Some stunning photos of Edna Purviance as Marie St. Clair in "A Woman of Paris". The last photo is Charlie Chaplin directing Edna Purviance in a scene. He did not appear in the film.

The 2 men in Marie St. Clair’s life - her true love Jean Millett (Carl Miller*), a poor struggling artist, weak willed and under the influence of his mother & the man who gives her all the material things in the world, Pierre Revel (Adolphe Menjou**), the richest man in Paris but no love or promise of a future between them.

Charlie Chaplin created this dramatic role for Edna Purviance, hoping it would help towards a career as a dramatic actress. It was his way I’m sure of acknowledging her contribution to his early success as his leading lady from 1915-1923. Edna contributed more to “the tramp’s” continuing evolution and was his greatest and most enduring onscreen partner.

Choosing to not appear in the film had a downside: “A Woman of Paris” was praised by the critics but the public stayed away, seems they did not want to go see a Charlie Chaplin film he was not in. His biographer David Robinson says the film would have done immensely better if Charlie had removed his name from the bill.

In 1976 towards the end of his life Charlie Chaplin prepared a reissue of “A Woman of Paris” - he created a new score:

According to David Robinson: “The score was the last completed work of a creative life that had spanned three quarters of a century”

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Caricatures of the early Disney staff circa 1929. Drawn by Jack King for Florbael Muir’s 1929 New York Daily News story, “How Silly Symphonies & Mickey Mouse Hit Up The Grade”

Walt & Roy Disney- The Big Cheeses. (Walt also doing voices, directing and being one of the story heads with Roy being purely business)

Ben Sharpsteen - Director & Head Animator

Ub Iwerks - Director & Head Animator

Win Smith - Animator

Wilfred Jackson - Director & Animator

Steve Millman - Animator

Carl Stalling - Composer

Norm Ferguson - Animator

Jack Cutting - Animator

Chuck Couch - Inbetweener & Animator

Johnny Cannon - Head Animator

Burt Gillett - Director & Animator

Merle Gilson - Animator

Bill Cotrell - Cameraman

Les Clark - Animator & BG Artist

Jack King - Animator

Carlos Manriquez - BG Artist

Dick Lundy - Animator & BG Artist

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Haha yeah so what if what if

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.22

Beer Birthdays

Carl Funke (1855)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Ray Bradbury; writer (1920)

Claude Debussy; French composer (1862)

John Lee Hooker; blues singer (1915)

Dorothy Parker; writer, critic (1893)

Annie Proulx; writer (1935)

Famous Birthdays

Roberto Aizenberg; Argentine artist (1922)

Tori Amos; pop singer, songwriter (1963)

Richard Armitage; actor (1971)

Honor Blackman; English actor (1925)

Alexander Bogdanov; Russian philosopher (1873)

Aimé Bonpland; French botanist and explorer (1773)

Ty Burrell; actor, comedian (1967)

Henri Cartier-Bresson; French photographer (1908)

Roger Cashmore; English physicist (1944)

David Chase; tv director (1945)

Holly Dunn; country musician (1957)

Jack Dunphy; author and playwright (1914)

Colm Feore; American-Canadian actor (1958)

Gorch Fock German author and poet (1880)

Valerie Harper; actor (1939)

George Herriman; cartoonist (1880)

Jerry Iger; cartoonist (1903)

James Kirkwood, Jr.; playwright and author (1924)

Samuel Langley; aviation pioneer (1834)

Jacques Lipchitz; sculptor (1891)

Rich Lowry; writer (1968)

Bill Parcells; football coach (1941)

Denis Papin; French physicist and mathematician (1647)

Max Scheler; German philosopher (1874)

Norman Schwarzkopf; U.S. general (1934)

Edward Rowe Snow; historian (1902)

Layne Staley; rock singer (1967)

Karlheinz Stockhausen; composer (1928)

Kristen Wiig; comedian, actor (1973)

Archibald M. Willard; artist (1836)

Cindy Williams; actress (1947)

Carl Yastrezemski; Boston Red Sox LF/1B (1939)

[yr-obedt-cicero]

what would you say is the most accurate painting of Hamilton?

According to Elizabeth and Hamilton's grandson, Allan McLane, the most accurate in Hamilton's likeness was James Sharples's and John Trumbull's;

"Most of the portraits of Alexander Hamilton, of which there seem to be many, are inartistic and disagreeable, because of their crudity and ugliness, a large number being the work of the peripatetic painters who flourished during the early part of the century, and up to the discovery of Daguerre. Exceptions, however, are the portraits of Trumbull and Sharples. The work of the former is characterized by its dash and spirit, and an artistic excellence which is generally conceded. The merit of the work of the latter lies chiefly in the fidelity of the likeness. The Trumbull portraits of Hamilton are well known, that belonging to the New York Chamber of Commerce having been often copied and engraved. The Sharples portrait, which is here presented, has never been reproduced.”

“James Sharples (or Sharpless), an Englishman, came to the United States in 1796, and won im- mediate popularity through the novelty and cleverness of his profile pastel portraits. That of Washington was followed by many others of persons identified with the Revolution. This picture of Hamilton is from one of his few portraits in oil, a small cabinet picture measuring eight by ten inches, which was owned by my grandmother, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, who survived her husband fifty-two years, and died in the city of New York in 1856, at the age of ninety-seven years. She bequeathed it to my father, the late Philip Hamilton, who was their youngest son. She always maintained that the Sharples portrait was the only satisfactory likeness she had known. So far as I can learn, it was painted when Hamilton was about thirty-nine years old, and after he had retired from the treasury and had resumed the practice of law in New York.”

(source — The Century)

Alexander Hamilton by James Sharples, c. 1796

Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, c. 1806

There is actually a matching portrait by Sharples of Elizabeth too, although Trumbull's is arguably the most beloved and is usually the iconic one you will see whenever searching around Hamilton on the internet.

But of course, there is also the unforgettable marbel bust of Hamilton. By Ceracchi, who was a sculptor from Rome who had proposed to Congress a memorial to the American Revolution, however Congress would decide against his proposal. But that was after he would sculp several prominent figures like; Washington, Jefferson, and as we all know, Hamilton. In July 1792, Ceracchi wrote Hamilton that he was “impatient to receive the clay that I had the satisfaction of forming from your witty and significant physiognomy”. When Ceracchi heard the memorial proposal was rejected, he sent the completed busts to each of his models in 1794. But also hilariously sent them each a bill for the work they didn't ask for. And while Washington tried to return the bust rather than pay that outrageously for a marbel copy of his face, Hamilton shamelessly paid $620 “for this sum through delicacy paid upon cherachi’s draft for making my bust on his own importunity & as a favour to him.” because he wanted that bust for himself if he could.

The Hamilton family kept the bust until 1896 when they donated it to the New York Public Library, there is also a copy on display at the Grange. This bust would be utilized as a common reference for Hamilton's appearance posthumously; Trumbull used the bust as model for a series of 1804-1808 portraits of Hamilton (Example above). And the first US Postal Service stamp to honor Hamilton was an 1870 30-cent stamp using this bust as a model. Also in 1880 while the bust was owned by Hamilton's son, John Church Hamilton, he lended it so it could be used as a model for the head of the granite statue of Hamilton by Carl Conrads.

[cuzikan]

As a session musician, arranger, producer, singer, songwriter, pianist, guitarist, bandleader, and touring musician, Leon Russell has collaborated with hundreds of artists, including Glen Campbell, Joe Cocker, Willie Nelson, Edgar Winter, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, J.J. Cale, David Gates, Bruce Hornsby, Hal Blaine, Tommy Tedesco, Bobby “Boris” Pickett, B.B. King, Freddie King, Bill Wyman, Steve Cropper, Carl Radle, Chuck Blackwell, Don Preston, Jesse Ed Davis, Rita Coolidge, Gram Parsons, Barbra Streisand, Ike & Tina Turner, Ricky Nelson, Herb Alpert, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Ann-Margret, Dean Martin, Marvin Gaye, Dave Mason, Steve Winwood, and groups such as Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, The Monkees, and more.