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eddie, thanx for the help. (And thanks for putting up that lovely NC Wyeth Maine picture.) My objections to Frazetta have to do with his anatomical knowledge. His big muscle-bound guys cross the line of the improbable (the thigh muscles are often out of drawing or out of proportion to the development on the rest of the body, and you KNOW that the pillagers did a lot of walking and heavy lifting, dragging all those poor girls around by their hair!) and his ladies . . . well, he hasn't any more idea how a woman is put together than Michelangelo did in his sculpture of "Night" for the Medici Chapel! Without being too, ahem, explicit, they have the same problem with not knowing how certain portions of a lady's upper anatomy are attached to her chest muscles . . . they're not just stuck on there with super glue (or at least they shouldn't be :-D ) (Some, however, have advanced the theory that "Night"'s model was suffering from breast disease . . . and I haven't looked at that many undraped females by Michelangelo.) There's also something funny about the way Frazetta handles the insertion of the thigh muscle into the pelvis on his women. Do you know if Frazetta works from live models or out of his head? I'm a great believer in George Stubbs's theory (and da Vinci's), that knowing how the insides are put together is absolutely essential to painting the outsides.

pepsi, I'm with you on Norman Rockwell (there are so MANY good artists that I'm sure I missed a few . . . I just saw the thread and started typing.) I saw the Rockwell exhibit when it toured to Atlanta. If all you've ever seen are the magazine reproductions, look at the originals if you get a chance! He was a very, very accomplished artist and his magazine covers were just a small portion of his output. The occasional sentimentality and the lack of subtle color and detail were the result of his clients' demands (and even the great Renaissance masters had to put up with the demands of their clients -- they paid the bills!) The "Girl in the Mirror" was in the exhibit, and the original is breathtaking.