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Creating art can lower stress and enhance your wellbeing. Of course, most creative folks already know this, but it's always satisfying when science catches up. A 2016 Drexel University study found that making art can significantly reduce stress-related...
Angels Entertaining the Holy Child (1893. Pvt. collection) is a painting by Marianne Stokes (1855–1927), an Austrian-born artist who exhibited at London’s Royal Academy, and was associated with the famous Newlyn School artists colony. Marianne shows an insightful...
When I lived in California I fell in love with the Aztec-Mexican holiday, "Día de los Muertos" --"Days of the Dead," an amazing celebration of the lives of departed loved ones. It is filled with spiritual joy and excitement, so different from the solemn Western...
I just entered my gouache painting, "Transcendental Rhythms: the Platypus Paradox" in the Virginia Beach Art Center's "Endangered!" exhibition. One of Australia’s most beloved species, the mystical duckbilled platypus is a nocturnal, semiaquatic, egg-laying...
American Impressionist Theodore Robinson (1852-1896) divided his time between New York and France, where he lived next door to his friend Claude Monet; they often advised each other. Robinson introduced his friend, artist Theodore Earl Butler (my 6th cousin four...
This gorgeous Stomp Dance Skirt for Green Corn Ceremony was made in the 1960s by Peggy Jim Osceola (1932- ) an Independent Seminole who lives in Florida. This skirt is in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art collection. Stomp dances are the introductory...
Berthe Morisot was one of the organizers of the Impressionist painters first exhibition in 1874, and was the only woman in the show. She exhibited in 7 of the 8 Impressionist exhibitions, only missing the one when her daughter was born. During her lifetime she was...
In the early 1900's Florence Griswold ran a summer boarding house for artists, mostly ones who came up from NYC to her home in Connecticut. It became the nucleus of the Old Lyme Art Colony and is now in the National Historic Register as the Florence Griswold Museum....
Hill-Stead Museum is a Colonial Revival house and art museum set on a large estate in Farmington, Connecticut designed by Theodate Pope, who was the first woman to become a licensed architect in NY (and the 6th in CT) and also designed the nearby Avon Old Farms...
In times like these, beautiful art is a welcome feast for the eyes and the soul. The exhibition, Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France features more than 100 inspiring works by the first wave of expatriate artists to cross the Atlantic. This tour de force...