Artists in Creative Process

Black and white images of artists actively engaged in their craft, capturing moments of creativity, skill development, and artistic expressions.

English driver Joe Dainer of Petersham is having his ninth attempt this year to win the Archibald prize, by exhibiting a portrait of last year's winner, William Dobell.Mr. Dainer, 51, stocky bald and sincere has been painting nearly all his life as a hobby. He has never had a lesson in portrait or life work, but claims two years tuition in landscape and seascape.He led us to what he called his humble studio, which is a small room in his crowded flat. In the room are a double and single bed, a large wardrobe, large loughboy (the doors of which he uses for an easel) and a couple of chairs and a table. February 15, 1950.

Anefo photo collection. Theo Swagemakers, painter with painting General track. January 10, 1962

Fresco class , Frescoes, Artists, Art education. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Anefo photo collection. Sculptor Altorf The Hague. January 23, 1951. The Hague, South Holland

English driver Joe Dainer of Petersham is having his ninth attempt this year to win the Archibald prize, by exhibiting a portrait of last year's winner, William Dobell.Mr. Dainer, 51, stocky bald and sincere has been painting nearly all his life as a hobby. He has never had a lesson in portrait or life work, but claims two years tuition in landscape and seascape.He led us to what he called his humble studio, which is a small room in his crowded flat. In the room are a double and single bed, a large wardrobe, large loughboy (the doors of which he uses for an easel) and a couple of chairs and a table. February 15, 1950.

Anefo photo collection. World Press Photo 1966. December 8, 1966

Anefo photo collection. Painter germ. De Jong March 8 70. 17 February 1956

Francis Picabia

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition at Sotheby, Waay Mak, Portrait Hugo de Groot. April 21, 1978

Anefo photo collection. 125 years of arti amicitiae exhibition, Jacob kuijper son-in-law of Jan Sluijters carries painting by Huib Luns. December 11, 1964

David Hockney in his studio in Los Angeles, in 1966. Hockney was a major contributor to the British Pop art movement of the 1960's, and lives today in Los Angeles, California.

Elie Nadelman

Anefo photo collection. Sculptor Albert Termote March 30 70. March 22, 1957

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition "We" pictures of the Magnum Group in the Stedelijk Museum; The layout of the photo alone. October 31, 1963

Anefo photo collection. Vincent Van Gogh exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1945). Visual artist or writer?. October 1945. Amsterdam

Anefo photo collection. Karel Appel signs some images from him in Galerie Kikhaar. October 1, 1977

Anefo photo collection. Rijksacademie Visual Arts Prescription Prix de Rome. October 14, 1953

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition "De Grote Naoven" in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. August 22, 1974. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Vladimir Tatlin before the Monument to the Third International, Anonymous

Sculptor Zagor. May 29, 1953.

Anefo photo collection. Painting A. M. van Schaik 80 years in Blariucm. August 7, 1956. Blaricum

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973). Escena del reportaje El Misterio Picasso, 1956, dirigido por Henri-George Clouzot.

Anefo photo collection. Theo van der Horst (painter), Quarles van Ufford Price (with one of his works). June 7, 1962

Madrid, April 1961. Study of the sculptor Juan de Ávalos. In the image, a part of the studio. Firstly, one of the seventy-four sketches made for the nine sculptures in the Valley of the Fallen. To the right, the Piedad and the Offering Victory (eight meters high), which will go in the monument to the Alcázar of Toledo.

Anefo photo collection. Last hand is placed on memorial monument in memory of the Haarlem resistance heldin Hannie Schaft designed by Truus Mixer. April 13, 1982

ROUGH SKETCH (EV001006_H)

Anefo photo collection. Painting of Queen Wilhelmina for the municipality of Zaandam manufactured by the painter A.P. van Meaver to Heiloo. July 1, 1953. Heiloo

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition Roy Lichtenstein in Stedelijk Museum. Designing staff. November 1, 1967

The Young Contemporaries Exhibition - Sir John Rothebstein Director and Keeper of the Tate Gallery, who opened the Exhibition, looking at the sculptor piece of the show "Man Shearing a Sheep" by Ralph Brown.The Young Contemporaries Exhibition of Coronation Year was opened at the R.B.A. Gallreies in Suffolk Street, London, S.W. I., by Sir John Rotherntein today. The first exhibition decided to make it an annual event - it is now second only to the Royal Academy in size and attendance. This year as, an extra incantive, Messrs. Colman, Prentis & Varley are to award a prize of £50 for the most outstanding work in the show. February 24, 1953. (Photo by Fox Photos).

Anefo photo collection. Painter germ. De Jong March 8 70. 17 February 1956

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition Chinese painting Amsterdam by UNESCO. October 24, 1955. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Almost A State Secret -- Benno Elkan at work on his 'secret' bust of Winston Churchill. Mr. Churchill is a hard man to persuade against his will, but Mrs. Churchill did it and the result of her efforts will be seen next January in the Wildenstein Gallery, London, when a bronze bust of the great war-time leader is shown publicly. The bust, a personal tribute to Churchill, has been seven years in the making for most of that time without the knowledge of Mrs. Churchill or her husband. November 29, 1949. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Anefo photo collection. Stedelijk Museum exhibition zero open overview. March 9, 1962. Hull

Bedser's New 'Twin'Alec Bedser Surrey and England bowler and twin brother of Surrey batsman Eric Bedser, is now being, duplicated in clay.He is pictured posing for sculptor Walter Marsden in Mr. Marsden's South Kensington (London) studio. The life-size head will be used for an effigy of Alec Bedser which is to be displayed at Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition in London. December 21, 1953. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Anefo photo collection. Karel Apple exhibition in Stedelijk Museum, Apple for his last painting "Deux Figures". June 25, 1965

Anefo photo collection. Wall painter and designer Harry on the Largest Gobelin jobs in the Netherlands designed. July 7, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Rijksacademie Visual Arts Prescription Prix de Rome. October 14, 1953

Anefo photo collection. Artists painted the fence opposite the courthouse, where the occupiers are tried, slogans against Mr. Nanes. June 16, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Elsevier photo collection. Gipsen model stone lions National Monument. sizes precision devices final images. lions designed sculptor John Rädecker Sr. 30 June 1955. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Command Rotterdammer, sculptor prof. Fred Carasso. 13 May 1963. Rotterdam, South Holland

Salvador Dalí in front of "Pax", Anonymous

Portrait in bust of the surreal painter René Magritte (1898-1967) on October 18, 1961 in front of one of his paintings "the love perspective" of 1935 Portrait Bust of the surreal painter René Magritte (1898-1967) on October 18, 1961 in front of one of his paintings "the love perspective" of 1935. Anonymous photography. Draw at gelatin bromide of silver. 1961-10-18.

Champion in Clay -- Instantly identified, even without the familiar cue, is this bust - of former world champion snooker player Joe Davis.Joe (center) poses at Bristol for the bust, modelled by Mr. Roy Smith, head of the west of England college of Art.The bust, eventually to be cast in bronze, was commissioned and is to be presented to Davis by his lifelong friend, Bill Lampard, former member of the national Billiarde Association. The bust will be on a how at Leicester square Hall, scene of Joe's many triumphs.(Davis retired as unbeaten snooke champion of the world). September 13, 1952. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Anefo photo collection. Bust of Cruys Voorbergh by Haagse Alderman Mr. M. cheerful revealed in the Kostuummuseum, the bust of Cruys Voorbergh. March 31, 1965

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition of the work of Claes Oldenburg (USA) in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. January 16, 1970. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

stampa di oggetti a calco con impasto solido, 1958

Sir Henry Spencer Moore (July 30, 1898 - August 31, 1986) working at home in Much Hadham, England, 1984. Moore was an English-born artist and sculptor, known for his modernist, abstract works.

Jack B. Yeats Exhibit at Galerie Beaux Arts. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Painting "Love letter" van Vermeer again in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, L. Kuiper (main restoration department) show cloth, behind him director of Schendel /. October 8, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Sculptor Gerard Bruning in Douglas J. Cooper art gallery "Gallery emeritus for young and talented artists" in Amsterdam. Galleries, statues, sculptors, Gerard Bruning, Bruning, Gerard. July 1, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

M F Hussain sitting in pundole art gallery mumbai Maharashtra India Asia Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Anefo photo collection. Louis van Roode makes enormous mosaic in Rotterdam facade. March 22, 1954. Rotterdam, South Holland

03/20/1918. In the hall of the Fine Arts Circle, in Madrid. Exhibition of Works by the Painters Carlos Alberto Castellanos (1) and Roberto Montenegro (2), Inaugurated yesterday.

Anefo photo collection. Stedelijk Museum Director Wim Beeren Rob Scholte, exhibition "Some Amsterdam". November 21, 1985. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Another Find In The Roman Temple -- The head of a god, described by archaeologists as the most beautiful find ever made in Britain, was unearthed in London's Roman temple of Mithras to-night. The head appears to be late Grecian, and is in much better state of preservation than that of Mithras. This picture taken at the Temple to-night shows Mrs. Audrey Williams, who found the head, carrying it to safety. September 26, 1954. (Photo by Daily Sketch Picture).;Another Find In The Roman Temple -- The

Anefo photo collection. Command Goois Museum. Sculptor Claus. 17 June 1968

Bernard Lamotte painting White House Swimming Pool mural. Artist Bernard Lamotte (left) and an unidentified assistant work on a mural depicting Christiansted Harbor in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Swimming Pool, White House, Washington, D.C.

Sir Henry Spencer Moore (July 30, 1898 - August 31, 1986) with an original cast of one of his sculptures, Much Hadham, 1970. Moore was an English-born artist and sculptor, known for his modernist, abstract works.

Anefo photo collection. Art painter J. Hower Droeze 85 years for one of his works The Muiderslot. March 22, 1962

Alexander Viktorovich Opolovnikov (1911-1994), Anonymous

Detective. Christian Boltanski; French, born 1944. Date: 1972-1973. Dimensions: . Black-and-white photomechanical reproduction mounted on paper, glass, and tape. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Madrid, 10/22/1940. Heinrich Himmler in Spain. In the image, before a reproduction of the Lady of Elche in the Archaeological Museum.

SALVADOR DALI PINTOR ESPAÑOL.FIGUERAS 1904-1989 EL PINTOR SALVADOR DALI EN SU MUSEO DE FIGUERAS.

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition distressed artists about poor storage works of art in WKR scheme, press conference in the Stedelijk Museum. March 27, 1981

02/25/2001. Madrid...26..2..01.. Exhibition by Antoni Tapies at the Soledad Lorenzo Gallery..With his wife Teresa Barba...Photo Javier Prieto...Archdc.

White House furnishings, artifacts, and conservator cleaning busts. An unidentified man cleans a marble bust of George Washington by Giuseppe Ceracchi, modeled ca. 1790-1794 and carved ca. 1815. The bust measures 22 x 10 x 8.75 inches and was purchased by the United States government in 1817 from Benjamin Lear. White House, Washington, D.C.

'Royal Wedding' In Wire -- Wendy Solling with 'Royal Wedding', a study in copper wire, at the exhibition. Ordinary wire - some of it of the kind used for making fences - is an unusual medium used by young Australian sculpturess Wendy Solling, whose first London exhibition is being opened by the Hon. Eric J. Harrison, Australian Resident Minister in London, at the Calerie Apollinaire, Litchfield Street, W.C., to-day (Thursday). February 15, 1951. (Photo by Reuterphoto).

Berlin - The owner of DNA Gallery, one of many trendy art galleries in East Berlin, Germany.

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