Claudia’s Sunday Evening Gallery
I look forward to Claudia’s Sunday Evening Art Gallery. Today’s is fabulous! Check it out (I’m looking at you, Daughter C & The J-Man).
The Rainbow | an interspersion
Image from Wikiart as in the crappy old book, Grandma Moses ( Otto Kallir, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, New York, 1973).
What are the odds?
“Hey, Missy?” Marica asked as she approached Missy’s desk. “Sorry to interrupt, but do you have a minute?” “Sure, Marica,” Missy said slipping off her reading glasses and looking up. “I’m working on the final edits you suggested to my Epic Novel but I could use a break. What’s up?” Missy and Marica just looked
Sunday Travels: Walter Anderson’s Little Room
As Missy is wont to do, I’ve began last Sunday’s Travels in the middle of things. So let’s back up. First– thanks to Daughter C! Not only were the photos taken by her when she & the J-Man visited the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, but also she kindly supplied me with a lot of
Sunday Travels: To the Walter Anderson Museum of Art
In order to realize the beauty of man we must realize his connection to nature. Walter Inglis Anderson More coming soon– including The Little Room!
Oh no it doesn’t!
Some models are predicting snow for us. I don’t forecast snow, but what do I know? Grandma Moses’ work is a treasure. Link to works by, or about Anna Mary Robertson Moses at Internet Archive. Many can be “borrowed” (downloaded) for two weeks.
“Name that Vase!”
“Marica?” Missy slid off the bed, sauntered over to Marica’s desk and sat down on the floor. “Oh! Hey Missy,” Marica replied. “What’s up?” “Ruff?” wondered Rocky. “Well, Marica, we wondered why you are looking so pensive these last few minutes.” “I’m trying to think of a name for something,” Marica said sighing. “Ruff?” “Oh.
At random
I reached into the box of 40+ Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts magazines and pulled out three volumes thinking that I could clickedy clack rattle off a table of topics, contents, authors, and subjects which interested artsy cultured folks in what by chance turned out to be 1962. Can’t be done. Too much. Can’t
Good Taste is a Moral Quality
From “Lecture II: Traffic” in John Ruskin’s The Crown of Wild Olive: Four Lectures on Work, Traffic, War and the Future of England (ca. 1895). John Ruskin was an interesting chap. A writer, poet, artist, art critic and later social critic. According to that infallible source, his work influenced Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Proust. The final sentence
A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi
Currier & Ives Chronicles of America (1968, p191; reproduced here from the Library of Congress archives). “A Cotton Plantation…” was first published in 1884.
Chronicles of America
I mentioned earlier that today is Nathaniel Currier’s birthday. Currier opened his print publishing business in 1834. James Ives joined him in 1852 and became his partner in 1857. Currier was a trained lithographer. Ives was a businessman with “a shrewd insight into the public’s taste.” From that infallible source: Lithography originally used an image
This should keep me out of trouble!
Today is the anniversary of Nathaniel Currier’s birth in 1845. I’ve got a crappy old book for that! Stay tuned.
The WWW has failed me, yet again
Alternate title: This, my friends, is why we have crappy old books Not long ago I picked up The World’s Great Madonnas: An Anthology of Pictures, Poetry, Music, and Stories Centering in the Life of the Madonna and Her Son (1947; which can be yours for one shiny penny). The largest portion of the book deals
Sweet
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel was a famous illustrator of children’s books. That’s the title page to his first book, (trans.) Old Songs and Rounds for Small Children. From that infallible source (citations removed): In 1895, however, he published an illustrated children’s history of Joan of Arc which has been regarded as his masterpiece. Working epic scenes in
Imagine it gone
Sistine Chapel Ceiling: Creation of Adam— Michelangelo Buonarroti 1510 (from Wikiart.org) Michelangelo was born this date in 1475. He began planning the ceiling in 1508. He finished it in 1512. I cannot think of words to describe the work, or the work. Others try: The Creation of Adam is so famous that it is almost
How Ignernt Am I?
This ignorant. Today is the anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh’s birth (1893), an anniversary noted in the Second Edition of Anniversaries and Holidays but not the first. (I’ll return to this some other time.) I asked myself, what better way to commemorate this anniversary than to post “Sunflowers”? Did you know there are like 107
“So Long till Next Year”
“So Long till Next Year” Grandma Moses (1960); from Grandma Moses (Otto Kallir, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, New York, 1973. Today’s the day I began putting Christmas away. I won’t finish, of course, until Epiphany, but today’s the day I began. Except for the Bible still open to Matthew, the Christmas books were the
Thanksgiving Turkey
“Catching the Turkey” Grandma Moses 1940 More in the “Catching the Turkey” series here. Though I know little about Grandma Moses, primitivism, or art, I am a fan of Anna Mary Robertson, and enjoy looking at her work. “A Blizzard” 1956
A Place for Everything
“Mom?” “Mom? Where’s that deer skull?” “Ummm… . In that chest in the foyer.” Right side. Top shelf. Because, like, doesn’t everyone have a deer skull in a chest in the foyer? The steer mandible is in the garage near the Area 51 rock. The goat skull is on top of one set of encyclopedias– I
“The Kiss of Betrayal”
Lots going on today! Since tomorrow is Good Friday, lots of businesses and such will be closed– even State!– so today substitutes for Friday-go-to-town-day. But first I have to get the first coat on. But before that I must post at least a little something. So I turned to a crappy old book, Christ and the