by Meryl Ann | Jun 21, 2022 | Elizabeth Shippen Green, Jessie Willcox Smith, Red Rose Girls, Violet Oakley, Women Artists
The Red Rose Girls were artists from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, active in the early 1900s: Violet Oakley, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Elizabeth Shippen Green. They were given their nickname by their teacher, Howard Pyle, because they rented the Red Rose Inn together,...
by Meryl Ann | Jun 20, 2022 | Cecilia Beaux, Women Artists
Went to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts today to see the “Women in Motion” exhibition (which closes June 24! Just barely made it!) PAFA was founded in 1805 and is the oldest art museum in the US. The exhibition was spectacular! A couple of my favorites are below...
by Meryl Ann | Jun 19, 2022 | Colored Pencil, MAB Art, Male artists, Meryl Ann Butler, Peter Max, Watercolor
“Maxxed Out on Love, Joy and Flowers: The Goddess is Afoot” was my entry into the annual “Fabulous Forgeries” exhibit at the Virginia Beach Art Center in January, 2022. (For that exhibition, entries may be copies of well known artworks, or simply...
by Meryl Ann | Jun 18, 2022 | Frank Reilly, Michelangelo, Oil Painting, Uncategorized
Copying works of Old Masters is a time-honored tradition, in fact, the reason for creating art museums in the first place was to provide the work of the masters for art students to copy. American art students went to Europe in the mid-1800s and early 1900s...
by Meryl Ann | Jun 17, 2022 | Art Projects, Meryl Ann Butler, Uncategorized
I posted recently about a painting I am working on of my grandmother Mohena Belle Roberts (born in 1894) and my grandfather, Franklin Harris (born in 1886), on the family property in 1916. I had the photo for many decades, planning to paint it some day…and I...
