England-born artist Thomas Cole (1801-1848) is considered the first great American landscape painter. His painting (above) titled “View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm,” popularly known as “The Oxbow,” is probably the most [...]
A remarkable body of never-exhibited abstract watercolors by Andrew Wyeth has revealed that the methods of 1950s abstract expressionism lay at the heart of Andrew Wyeth’s meticulous realism all along. The revelation has surprised painters [...]
Artist Kathie Odom judged the latest entries. The Salon is sponsored by PleinAir™ Magazine but open to all painting styles and mediums. Below we highlight the top winners along with the judge’s comments about why [...]
It's easy to mistake the intensions of numerous “challenging” or "edgy" artists for obnoxiousness or obscurity. But keep looking and thinking, and what at first seems like a childish flip-off to aesthetic conventions may gradually [...]
Happy National Cat Day! Nobel prize-winning author, philosopher and physician held that there are but “two means of refuge from the misery of life – music and cats.” Perhaps we could agree to add a [...]
When we say an artist, musician, or high-caliber entertainer “works their magic,” we’re acknowledging there’s something extra-ordinary about the creation and experience of art. We go to art because there is something immaterial there; that [...]
One of the “spookier” American paintings must be Albert Pinkham Ryder’s “The Race Track,” popularly known as “Death on a Pale Horse.” Like many a Ryder painting, it’s a strange, stricken-looking gem created at the [...]
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 [...]
Pat Fiorello has been painting for more than 25 years, and during that time she says, she’s been fortunate to “mostly” have felt excited to get into the studio and paint. But no one is [...]
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 [...]
