Lit by the moon, it looms like a phantom, the hoary captain of an unsinkable ghost-ship maybe, surveying the gray expanse of Northern Wilderness rolling endlessly into the horizon.  Standing 5 feet tall by nearly [...]

#1. Look Close, See Big “I wish you could see what I see out the window,” wrote Georgia O’Keeffe to her friend, the painter Arthur Dove in 1942. At 55 years old, she was writing [...]

Each December, and with annually increasing influence, the color company Pantone Colour Institute. announces the next year’s “Colour of the Year.” This year they’ve declared that for 2024, it’s what they’re calling “Peach Fuzz,” described [...]

Winter’s arrival can bring a contemplative, philosophical turn to an artist’s mind. The faded dawns, gray-velvet afternoons and sparkling-clear nights can inflect paintings of winter with a quiet, melancholy stillness present at no other time [...]

“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the [...]

You feel it only after, when you’ve broken out of the trance. For the last hour or so you’ve been “somewhere else,” lost in the moment, not worried about ANYTHING. Also, you weren’t worrying about [...]

In 1904, the young, focused, and ambitious Welsh painter Gwen John arrived in Paris. Homeless and living in an abandoned building, she decided she had nothing to lose and knocked on the door of the [...]

There’s more than meets the eye in James McNeil Whistler’s painting originally titled The Woman in White after a popular mystery novel of the day by Willkie Collins. “This is modeling as performance art,” wrote [...]

The Number One Thing you need to paint better trees is to understand trees better. That’s the surprising verdict of 20th century landscapist and author John Carlson. Carlson literally wrote the book on landscape painting [...]

A typical Crane of his later period (1920s). Robert Bruce Crane (1857 – October 30, 1937) learned his tonalistic approach from French landscapist Jean Charles Cazin  (1841–1901), with whom he studied for a period. Cazin was [...]