Art Talk Podcast: Studio Ramble to Ron

The Golden Palm Tape Network was a 1980s precursor of podcasting, where a small group of far-flung artists kept in touch by recording circulating ideas and readings via tape cassettes. (Video link) 

This one is addressed to my friend Ron Harris of southern California, a comic artist, collector, and art historian who still comments on this blog.

Sandor Bihari -- Before the Judge

Listening to the tape is a reminder to me of how it was in the 1980s. Discovering obscure information required sleuth work at libraries and used bookstores, plus the cooperation of friends with similar interests. 

The primary members of Golden Palm Tape Network were: 

Ron Harris 

Paul Chadwick 

Tom Kinkade 

Bryn Barnard 

James Warhola 

Here are links to some of the books and artists referenced.

Books (links mostly go to Amazon)

Some Call It Kitsch: Masterpieces of Bourgeois Realism 

Genre Painting in the Hungarian National Gallery by Supka 

American Boys' Handy Book 

Joaquín Sorolla

Edwin Austin Abbey by E. Lucas 

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen by Joseph Pennell 

Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur Guptill 

Mastering the Craft of Painting by Angelo John Grado 

The History of Modern Painting by Richard Müther 

The Ulysses Voyage by Tim Severin 

Mural Painting in America by Edwin Blashfield 

William Bouguereau, 1825-1905 (Exhibition Catalog) 

The Life and Work of Jean Léon Gérôme by Gerald Ackerman 

Artists Mentioned (links mostly go to Wikipedia)

Heinrich Siemiradzki 

Simon Hollósy 

Sandor Bihari 

Mihály Munkacsy 

Joaquín Sorolla 

Edwin Austin Abbey 

Haddon Sundblom 

Mike Jittlov 

Frank Reilly 

Fred Fixler 

Domenico Morelli 

Stanhope Forbes

Frank Bramley 

Ilya Repin 

Edwin Blashfield 

Frank Millet 

N.C. Wyeth 

Vladimir Peter "Bill" Tytla 

Kay Nielsen 

Maxfield Parrish 

Frank Frazetta 

Moebius (Jean Giraud) 

Hal Foster 

Alex Raymond