The Pictorial Arts: Ride, Boldly Ride

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Eric Kincaid — Eldorado

Annie said...: Thank you for featuring this artist. I wasn't familiar with him, so I did a little research. It looks like he and presumably his wife, Lucy Kincaid, collaborated on several books. One of them, The Skittles ABC, from 1976, is in my library system's special collections rare book room.; April 28, 2011 at 8:46 PM
Will o'the Glen said...: I like this as much for the poem as the illustration. "El Dorado" is the only poem I have ever memorized in its entirety, and probably the only bit of poetry ever featured in a John Wayne movie!; April 29, 2011 at 6:25 AM
Li-An said...: Sorry but it awfully looks very much similar as a famous Bilibine illustration:
http://caracol.imaginario.com/contosempre/imgBilibin/vassilissa3e4.html; April 29, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Thomas Haller Buchanan said...: Li-An, it's nothing to be sorry about. That was a goodly observance. This does indeed look inspired by Bilibin's basic pose. But if you place them side by side, you can see that Kincaid made this drawing his own—detail wise, but also the bone-weary look of the horse.

Commercial illustrators have an awful dilemma so many times, of needing to quickly turn out illustrations of situations and poses that cannot be made up out of the mind, cannot be posed with models, but must be inspired by the 'swipe file' that they've created over the years. I think Kincaid has been very creative with his swipe.; April 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM