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Celebrating Father’s Day with Mary Cassatt
“I have touched with a sense of art some people – they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?” Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) Portrait of Alexander – J....
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Art Galleries Hold Our Stories
Art Galleries hold our stories. There is a profound need for humanity to be remembered. To declare that we have walked this earth and in some way left our mark for others to know we have lived. The...
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The Woman with Red Hair
“It is your duty in life to save your dream.” Amedeo Modigliani The Woman with Red Hair 1917 January 2008 marked the first year of my Art Page-a-Day calendar journey. I came across the calendar quite...
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Artists in the Garden
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a...
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Happy Birthday Gustav Klimt
“Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.” Gustav Klimt Avenue in the Park of Schloss Kammer, Gustav...
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A Building Transformed
A building is defined as a structure with a roof and walls. This simple description holds the complexities of our world. We live, learn, play and work in buildings They are a construct of humanity’s...
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Happy Birthday Jonathan Eastman Johnson
Eastman Johnson: “Not at Home (An Interior of the Artist’s House) c. 1873. Brooklyn Museum The American painter Jonathan “Eastman” Johnson was born today, in 1824. His birthplace was Lovell, Maine,...
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Emil Nolde – Expressionist
Emil Nolde – 1909 – Wildly Dancing Children “Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.” Emil Nolde On August 7, 1867,...
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Fra Angelico – The Annunciation
The Annunciation by Fra AngelicoWelcome December! It is winter’s month of celebration that signals festive music, scintillating lights and the aroma of cinnamon and chocolate. Amid long-awaited family...
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The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius by Carlo Crivelli
The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius – Carlo Crivelli – National Gallery The Annunciation generally includes two figures – Mary and the winged angel, Gabriel. Carlo Crivelli, an Italian Renaissance...
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The Annunciation – Journeys & Destinations
The story of the Annunciation is one of the most frequent themes in Christian art, most notably depicted by the artists of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This is a story of connection between...
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Pre-Raphaelites & the Annunciation
There were three at the first meeting held in the home of John Millais’s parents in 1848: John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. Humble beginnings for the Pre-Raphaelite...
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Celebrating New Year’s Eve with Konstantin Somov
My 2019 Art Calendar is ready to take its place on the bookcase in our entryway hall. That way, it is the last thing that I see when I leave home and the first thing that welcomes me back. My 2018...
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Artists in the Garden: Claude Monet
Winter brings a bitter chill and an invitation to keep a stack of books and a pot of hot tea close at hand. This is a time of respite and recuperation. Or so it would appear. But as every gardener...
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Celebrating Paul Cézanne’s 180th Birthday.
“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.” Paul Cézanne One hundred and eighty years ago, on January 19, 1839, Paul Cézanne was born in Aix-en-Provence, a city-commune in the south of France,...
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Celebrating Valentine’s Day with François Boucher
Erato The Muse Of Love Poetry by François Boucher I am celebrating Valentine’s Day with François Boucher, a French painter, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings. He lived in the flamboyant...
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Cleveland Museum of Art – Open Access
The Lock at Pontoise by Camille Pissarro. Image via the Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. We live in a world that offers seemingly unlimited access to what was previously only available to the select view....
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Venice Connection
“-last words about painting, age 78… I think I’m beginning to learn something about it.” Pierre-Auguste Renoir The Doges’ Palace, Venice By Pierre-Auguste Renoir Today is Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s...
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Emily Mary Osborn – Nameless and Friendless
‘Nameless and Friendless’ (1857) by Emily Mary Osborn “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.” Proverbs 10:15 Emily Mary Osborn added this Biblical...
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Guo Pei: Couture Beyond
“Fashion shouldn’t just be about the present. I care more about the meaning behind the details. Therefore, the embroidery and motifs you see on my clothing all have stories behind them.” Guo Pei,...
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