In the Wild North

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 [...]

By |2024-01-18T15:23:25-05:00January 18th, 2024|

Color Me Crazy

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 [...]

By |2023-12-28T12:44:25-05:00December 28th, 2023|

A Mind of Winter

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 [...]

By |2023-12-21T15:59:50-05:00December 21st, 2023|

“Bizarre!”

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 [...]

By |2023-11-16T13:52:31-05:00November 16th, 2023|
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