Chess Images

 ;-)    Beautiful painting!  

From 'The Prisoner' at Portmeirion? 

more art...

Frederick Judd Waugh, known mainly for his seascapes and for his ship camouflage work during WWI, was also quite capable in other forms as his 1891 painting, "Chess Players," attests.

British portaitist Francis R. Cotes painted this oil picture (circa 1760) of William Earle Welby and his first wife, Penelope, informally titled, "Playing Chess, before a Draped Curtain."  It's rather exquisitely executed.




Delphin Enjolras, French artist (mainly a watercolorist),  created many paintings of women doing everyday things, usually illuminated by a lamp or a candle. Here is a painting from around 1900 completely in that style.

Nice 

Edwin Lord Weeks, 1849 - 1903, oil on canvas
55 1/4 by 73 1/4 in. (140.3 by 186.1 cm)

couldn't post the image directly from the Sothebys page, so i just cropped it a bit.
the link below has the whole painting include zooming feature and other interesting info..

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/european-art-n09940/lot.61.html

A. Ernest V. Bisson was a little known French post-impressionist. This 1914 painting is called "Une Serieuse Partie." He seems to have tried for, and achieved, a photographic quality along with his splendid arrangement. 



I like this painting.  It shouts CHESS.  Beryl Fowler painted it in 1904, when she was but 23. Her husband was Frank Fowler, a German artist (later she married film-maker, Hubert von Herkomer). Beryl herself hailed from West Cumbria, England. The painting is entitled, "A Young Man Sitting on a Settle Leaning over a Chess Table." 

Paintings, drawings and other artistic representations generally have a pleasing, aesthetic about them.  Photos, while quite important and relevant, unless deliberately composed, are often less aesthetically pleasing (though certainly not always) and finding interesting ones is always a treasure hunt.

Below is a well-composed photo of Arnold Denker during the 1945 US-USSR Radio Match. The boy on the right preparing the move for transmission is no other that Elliot Hearst:


Below is Marcel Duchamp with Larry Evans in 1957. The photo is somewhat reminiscent of the John Singer Sargent's 1907 painting, "The Chess Game" (below the photo)

I find this 1921 photo really extraordinary - the ladies are Edith Michell, 3 time British Woman's Champion, Edith Price, 5 time British Woman's Champion and Gertrude Anderson, 3 time British Woman's Champion.

Two couples: foreground-Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning (soon to be Ernst) and background- Muriel (Streeter) and Julien Levy.  Levy owned the Levy Gallery where this picture was taken during the Imagery of Chess exhibition in 1945-6.  The chess set (and table) Ernst and Tanning are using is the creation of Max Ernst in which the shapes of the pieces supposedly reflect their representation and their function. Ernst also created the Strategic Board where the importance or value of a particular square is indicated by the color tone of that square for the show.


Here is Muriel Levy's contribution to the show:


Here is Dorothea Tanning's contribution to the show:

Fascinating! 

indeed

In 1945 Xanti Shawinsky created this oeuvre depicting a position from a Lasker-Capablanca game which is intended to represent the moves being calculated in the player's mind.

Two views:

Gisela Gresser was the US Women's Champion in 1944 when this photo was taken. 

1935:

Willi Schlage (left) was the Reichstrainer des Großdeutschen Schachbundes or head trainer for the German Chess Federation staring in 1935. In 1939, during Youth Chess Week he trained (l-r) Karl Krbavic, Edith Keller, Klaus Junge, Wolfgang Unzicker and Rudolf Kunath in the town of Fürstenwalde.

I rather like this sketch.

John Newton Hyde, a commercial artist and political cartoonist (he also illustrated some children's books) out of Boston sketched this for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Magazine in 1871. the caption (not shown here), says "Matt in Einem Zug" ("Mate in One Move").