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Monograms have been used as signatures by artists and craft workers on paintings, sculptures and pieces of furniture, especially when guilds enforced measures against unauthorized participation in the trade. A famous example of a monogram serving as an artist's signature is the "AD" used by Albrecht Dürer.
John Emmet Sheridan (June 14, 1877 – July 3, 1948) was an illustrator well known in his lifetime for his cover art for The Saturday Evening Post, his illustrations for Collier's Weekly and Ladies' Home Journal, and his commercial advertisements. He is "credited with the idea of using posters to advertise college sports."
Falk, Peter H. Dictionary of Signatures & Monograms of American Artists: From the Colonial Period to the Mid 20th Century. Madison, Conn: Sound View Press, 1988. Falk, Peter H, Audrey M. Lewis, Georgia Kuchen, and Veronika Roessler. Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975: 400 Years of Artists in America. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999.
German artist Albrecht Dürer, recognizing how much his name increased the value of his prints, went so far as to petition a court to protect his signature. But with the advent of digital art, the ...
Rembrandt's earliest signatures (c. 1625) consisted of an initial "R", or the monogram "RH" (for Rembrant Harmenszoon), and starting in 1629, "RHL" (the "L" stood, presumably, for Leiden). In 1632, he used this monogram early in the year, then added his family name to it, "RHL-van Rijn" but replaced this form in that same year and began using ...
Ay-O's Tactile Box and Finger Box on display in the exhibition Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950–1970 at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. In front of the case is a simulator of the artworks within, where visitors can insert their hands (for the Tactile Box ) or fingers (for the Finger Box ).
Dietrich Hermann Grunewald was born in Oskarström, Sweden, to parents of German ancestry.His father, Eduard Gottfried Grunewald (1873-1943), was born in Nicaragua to a German Moravian missionary and his wife, while his mother, Elisabeth Feldmann (1882-1975), was born in London to a German salesman and cigar manufacturer and his wife.
Art Signature Dictionary – signatures and monograms 20 examples of genuine signatures and monograms by John Bauer. John Bauer Museum Archived 2005-10-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish) Pictures by John Bauer at Project Runeberg (in Swedish) 11 Illustrations from Die Göttersage der Väter (1911)