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I enjoyed a quick visit today to one of my favorite statues, Sybil Ludington, in Carmel, NY alongside Lake Gleneida. The creatrix, Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973), was among the foremost women sculptors in the United States to have undertaken significant,...
Some days there is so much magic that it requires two blog posts! Yesterday, after my museum visit I got to meet my friend Lisa at her fabulous dance studio - she and I met online when we attended Americans for the Arts Action Fund Executive Director, Nina Tunceli's,...
I visited the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art today (Hartford, CT; founded 1842) -- it has a great collection of paintings from the Hudson River School which I will share in upcoming posts. It also has a lovely painting by Mary Cassatt which I have been...
Here’s a stunning double portrait which I viewed at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT, today. “Immigrant from Checo Slovacia” [sic], ca. 1921-22, is by American Impressionist, Martha Walter (1875-1976), (Oil on board.) Martha is known for...
It is the longest day and shortest night of the year, the Summer Solstice, a perfect day to honor the ancestors with a huge box of flowers for the graves! But when I got there, I realized I had forgotten to bring a hammer…something that is good to use with a chopstick...
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,...
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...
“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 based on a...
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...
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 finally...