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Ted McGrath

Ted McGrath

Ted McGrath‘s frenetic brushwork and mind-bending journals are completely un-self-conscious. A good reminder that we should try to let go and follow our intuition. McGrath teaches illustration at the Pratt Institute and you may have seen his stuff in the New York Times / New York Magazine.

Don’t miss his “Power in Numbers” journal in the news section…

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com/ Jed Alexander

    Great looking sketchbooks! All the texture experiments remind me of the sketchbooks of Henrik Drescher and Gary Panter.

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com Jed Alexander

    Great looking sketchbooks! All the texture experiments remind me of the sketchbooks of Henrik Drescher and Gary Panter.

  • http://www.planetsaturday.com/ Monongahela Monster

    Heh… I was just about to dig through a bunch of annuals trying to find Drescher’s name.

    The black-and-white section also made me think of some other artists… whose work, now that I come to look at it again, is not as much in the same vein as I thought, but is still good fun for the eyeballs:
    Jack Unruh-
    http://www.jackunruh.com/home.html
    Ben Shahn (annoyingly tiny but clickable thumbnails)-
    http://www.tfaoi.com/newsmu/nmus58b.htm

  • http://www.planetsaturday.com Monongahela Monster

    Heh… I was just about to dig through a bunch of annuals trying to find Drescher’s name.

    The black-and-white section also made me think of some other artists… whose work, now that I come to look at it again, is not as much in the same vein as I thought, but is still good fun for the eyeballs:
    Jack Unruh-
    http://www.jackunruh.com/home.html
    Ben Shahn (annoyingly tiny but clickable thumbnails)-
    http://www.tfaoi.com/newsmu/nmus58b.htm

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com/ Jed Alexander

    Unruh has some tasty penwork, but he’s more of renderer. Though on a superficial level some of the subject matter is in a similar vein, he doesn’t quite have the soul or craft of an Arzybasheff.

    Now Shahn is a real master of design, and he did some powerful posters. Then there’s my other favorite social realist Alice Neel:

    http://www.aliceneel.com/

    If Max Beckman and Oskar Kokoska had an American baby during the depression, it would be Alice Neel.

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com Jed Alexander

    Unruh has some tasty penwork, but he’s more of renderer. Though on a superficial level some of the subject matter is in a similar vein, he doesn’t quite have the soul or craft of an Arzybasheff.

    Now Shahn is a real master of design, and he did some powerful posters. Then there’s my other favorite social realist Alice Neel:

    http://www.aliceneel.com/

    If Max Beckman and Oskar Kokoska had an American baby during the depression, it would be Alice Neel.

  • http://www.planetsaturday.com/ Monongahela Monster

    >Unruh has some tasty penwork, but he’s more of renderer.

    Yeah, I’ll buy that. Some of that work is very dry, but some of it’s got a nice sense of humor.

    I’d completely missed Alice Neel… thanks for the pointer. Her 20′s gallery makes me think of Chaim Soutine a bit-
    http://www.artunframed.com/images/soutinec/sou09c.jpg

  • http://www.planetsaturday.com Monongahela Monster

    >Unruh has some tasty penwork, but he’s more of renderer.

    Yeah, I’ll buy that. Some of that work is very dry, but some of it’s got a nice sense of humor.

    I’d completely missed Alice Neel… thanks for the pointer. Her 20′s gallery makes me think of Chaim Soutine a bit-
    http://www.artunframed.com/images/soutinec/sou09c.jpg

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com/ Jed Alexander

    Soutine is the Shiznit.

  • http://jedalexander.blogspot.com Jed Alexander

    Soutine is the Shiznit.