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The Oxbow Manifesto

Considered among the most important American paintings, Thomas Cole’s 1836 "The Oxbow" is a manifesto, not just of nineteenth-century American art but for the social role that American art can still play.  England-born artist Thomas [...]

By |2025-08-05T18:45:34-04:00August 5th, 2025|

Full of Grace

Artist Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) was an important figure in the “New York School” of painters born of the excitement of the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and ‘50s. Her large painting titled “Giftwares” shows [...]

By |2025-08-05T22:24:10-04:00July 31st, 2025|

Shine, Shine, Shine

Hot enough for you? What color is “hot” – or “too hot”? If winter’s colors are cool blues and violet-grays, then summer’s are scorching orange, flame-yellow, and fire-engine red. Or so it seems, but not [...]

By |2025-07-28T21:58:41-04:00July 28th, 2025|

The Colors of Summer

Of all the moderns, Matisse is the most lighthearted, the least angst-ridden, the most, well.. summery. His mission was to paint the exuberance of life – the best of us, our “best side” as human [...]

By |2025-07-25T17:14:23-04:00July 25th, 2025|
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