The River Arts District (RAD) in Asheville, North Carolina has been decimated by catastrophic flooding. Most of the 26 buildings were devastated including art and the supplies and equipment used by creators. The Artists for [...]

If people cared as much about painting as they do about literature, the name Ralph Albert Blakelock might be almost as celebrated as that of Edgar Allen Poe. At an auction in 1913, Blakelock set [...]

Charles Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) founded the popular Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Mass. Hawthorne was famous for his fresh, observational approach to painting and for having his students [...]

The winners in the monthly PleinAir Salon have been announced. Taking the top spot is Thomas Kegler’s nocturne, “Mid-Summer Night, Romans 5:4,” The Biblical reference, paraphrasing, says: “Perseverance produces character, and character produces hope.” Come [...]

In this painting by Edward Gordon, we find ourselves in a fine, presumably Victorian house by the sea, perhaps somewhere on the coast of Maine. The open window looks out over a veranda overhanging the [...]

They say there isn’t a major museum in the world that doesn’t own counterfeit works, some even misattributed to very famous artists (e.g. by a recent count, 20% of all art in museums in the [...]

Five Ways I Recharge My Creative Batteries By Guest Contributor PAT FIORELLO If you’ve been painting for any length of time, you know it’s natural to go through periods of great energy and inspiration and other [...]

Can a landscape be epic?  That’s the question RISD professor and artist-printmaker Nancy Friese asks in a brief essay on the painting titled “Rain on the River,” created in 1908 by a young American “Ashcan [...]

“We do what we must, and call it the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.” – Emerson (Experience) The key is to be wild but [...]