Whose Brush Stroke Is That?

Tuesday, June 17th, 2014

-By Dan dos Santos

Can you identify each of these 14 Artists simply from their brush handling? They may be living or dead, but each one is very well known. Click on the thumbnails for a hi-resolution detail.

Leave your guesses in the comments section. And for a real challenge, try not to peek at other people’s guesses. (No fair answering you IMCers!)

I’ll post the answers, and the entire painting, tomorrow.

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25 Comments

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    Best Guesses:

    1. Drew Struzan
    3. Patrick Nagel
    5. Donato Giancola
    9. John Berkeley
    12. Robert McGinnis

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    1- David Grove
    4- Justin Sweet ?
    5- Giancola ?
    6- Moebius
    9- Manchess ?
    11- Jeff Jones

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    1 Drew Struzan

    2 John Palencar

    3 Patrick Nagel

    4 Petar Meseldzija *

    5 Donato

    6 Moebius

    7 Greg Manchess *

    8 Eric Fortune

    9 John Berkey

    10 Stephan Martinere

    11 Jeff Jones

    12 Robert McGinnis

    13 Kent Williams

    14

    *to be honest / guessing.

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    1. Drew Struzen
    2. John Jude Palancar
    3. Moebius
    4 ?
    5. Donato Giancola
    6. William Stout
    7. Greg Manchess
    8. Eric Fortune
    9. John C, Berkey
    10. Rich Anderson
    11. NC Wyeth
    12.?
    13.?
    14.?
    The ones I cant identify are killing me. I recognize them but names escape me. I'll be kicking myself tomorrow

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    14- Maxfield Parrish … maybe ?

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    1. Struzan
    2. John Jude Palencar (or second guess one of the Wyeths?)
    3. Nagel
    4. ?
    5. Donato
    6. Moebius
    7. ?
    8. Eric Fortune
    9. Dave Berkey
    10. ?
    11. Wyeth? Or one of his adventure painting contemporaries
    12. ?
    13. ? (I thought it was that guy who paints the pics of the construction workers and boxers, but I think I'm wrong)
    14. ?

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    Are you thinking of Steve Huston? I thought about him for that but I'm not sold either.

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    1: Drew Struzan
    4: Petar Mezeldzija
    5: Donato Giancola
    6: Jean Giraud / Moebius
    9: John Berkey
    11: Hmm … maybe N.C. Wyeth?

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    1- Drew Struzan
    2- John Jude Palencar
    5- Donato Giancola
    8- Eric Fortune
    9- John Berkey (?)
    13- Kent Williams

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    Yup, that's the guy! Funny, as I loaded the page to check back, his name came to me suddenly. But yeah, I don't think it's him. I checked out Bruce Jensen's guess (Kent Williams) and that looks a lot closer.

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    Also…why the hell did I type *Dave* Berkey? lol

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    I'm pretty certain of #2.

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    1.Drew Struzan
    2. John Jude Palencar
    3. Patrick Nagel
    4.
    5. Frederic Remmington?
    6.
    7.
    8. Eric Fortune
    9. John Berkey
    10.
    11.
    12. Jeff Jones
    13. Mead Schaeffer or Dean Cornwell
    14. Maxfield Parrish

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    3. Patrick Nagel

    …Looks like I need to brush up on my artists *o*

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    14 – Thomas Kinkade πŸ™‚

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    I think I had them all, but I definitely looked at the other answers, so I took my guesses down. πŸ™‚

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    1. Drew Struzan
    2. John Jude Palencar
    3. Patrick Nagel
    4. Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo
    5. Donato Giancola
    6. Moebius
    7. Greg Manchess
    8. Eric Fortune
    9. John Berkey
    10. ?
    11. N.C. Wyeth
    12. Robert McGinnis
    13. ?
    14. Thomas Kinkade
    Just a bit of “oops” and a typo. Meant one when I typed the other. πŸ™‚

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    1.Drew Struzan
    2. John Jude Palencar
    3. Patrick Nagel
    4. Boris Vallejo
    5. Donato Giancola
    6. Moebius
    7. Gregory Manchess
    8. Eric Fortune
    9. John Berkey
    10. Stephan Martiniere
    11. Jeffrey Jones
    12. Robert McGinnis
    13. Kent Williams
    14. Thomas Kinkade

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    1 struzan
    3 nagel
    6 moebius
    8 fortune
    11 wyeth

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    1 grove? Not a Struzan but similar style
    2 palencar
    3 nagel?
    4 valejo
    5 giancola
    6 moebius
    7 manchess
    8 fortune
    9 berkey!
    10 martineiereoiearie?
    11 the elder wyeth
    12 mcginnis
    13 williams
    14 the painter of light

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    HA HA HA White Whale! you got enough vowels in on 10?
    Here's some more just in case not: eiaiaeioaioeiiea

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