I imagine a good number of us older artists, especially » Read More
Art History
Impressionism’s Influence
“Impressionism may properly be called the greatest single disintegrating » Read More
The Academy Tradition
Some of the best work being created in figurative painting today is » Read More
What is Art?
What is art? That’s a question I don’t hear debated much anymore, maybe because » Read More
Charles Sprague Pearce
In the last quarter of the nineteenth-century, a very large » Read More
Ennobling the Peasantry
In the early 1800’s, paintings depicting themes from » Read More
John Frederick Kensett
As professional artists, in my case a painter, it’s » Read More
Learning from a master
“In a certain sense a picture is but the record of » Read More
The Cornish Connection
What might have been wasn’t meant to be. » Read More
Reality Sets In
“Approved” art of the last 100 years proves destructive
When I was in college in the 1960’s, having decided to become an artist, there was a distinguishable antagonism and snobbery, from those » Read More