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Artist Profile: Raymond Pease (1908 — 1990)

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Raymond Pease was a painter and an illustrator.  Born in Vermont, Pease attended Grand Central Art School and the National Academy of Design in New York City, and received a B.F.A. degree from the Yale University School of Art.  He also studied art in Paris at the Ecoles des Beaux-Arts and Academie Julian.   Along with painting portraits, still lifes, and portraits of horses, Pease did illustrations for magazines and book covers for Signet and Pocket Books.  Pease lived the latter years of his life in Arizona.

A sampling of his work can be found below.

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Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox: 2013 World Series Champions!

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I never thought I’d be rooting for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series. I love my Texas Rangers, even though they’ve broken my heart twice now by falling apart in September.  When the Rangers lost the wild card spot to the Rays, I thought I might be done with baseball for the year.

However, as I watched the World Series, the Red Sox won me over.  It helped that former Ranger Mike Napoli is on the team.  It also helped that they were playing the St. Louis Cardinals, a team that showed themselves to have absolutely no class when they beat the Rangers in the 2011 World Series.

The Cardinals managed to win two games but the outcome of the World Series was never in doubt.  Everyone watching knew that this was Boston’s year and the Red Sox easily dominated the Cardinals.  The team earned this victory by playing outstanding baseball.  Even more importantly, the city of Boston earned this victory by showing everyone in America what being strong truly means.

Tonight, when Koji Uehara got that final out, we were all Boston Strong.

Artist Profile: Raymond Bayless (1920 — 2004)

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Born in Oakland, California, Raymond Bayless was a self-taught artist who, by the end of his career, had his still-life paintings hanging in the National Air and Space Museum, the State Department, and the Pentagon.  He is best known for his fantasy and horror-themed illustrations, many of which  writings of H.P. Lovecraft.  Bayless also wrote several books on parapsychology.

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Artist Profile: Virgil Finlay (1914 — 1971)

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Finlay1Virgil Finlay is considered to be one of the best artists to work in pulp magazines.  From the his first publication in 1935 until his death in 1971, Finlay created more than 2600 works of graphic art.  He was acclaimed for the amount of detail that he put into his illustrations.

A small sampling his work can be found below.  Click on each picture to enlarge.

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Artist Profile: Judson Huss (1942–2008)

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Judson Huss was born in North Carolina.  After studying art at several different design schools, Huss grew dissatisfied with the “modernist” approach of most American instructors and moved to Europe.  Huss lived and worked in Paris.  His paintings are in select private collections in France, the Netherlands, and America.  After his death, much of his work was collected in the retrospective art book, River of Mirrors.

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