If I know how to paint, this is where I learned it. It was on this very spot when I was in the ninth grade, that I learned how to paint. At least I saw how to paint and I have spent the last many years learning it. I am still so early in my [...]
There is a fantastic show at The Morgan Library on Madison Avenue in New York City of; The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, “the most important and lavish of all Dutch manuscripts as well as one of the most beautiful among the Morgan’s collection.” I have long been a big fan of illuminated work from the [...]
A writer hears. A painter sees. If you want to make great paintings you must see great paintings (and drawings). Toulouse Lautrec is a great painter and a great drawer yet he is unknown to so many of the people I mention him too. Everyone is aware of Degas who as a younger man was [...]
I wanted to post this painting because it is one of my favorites. It brings me a great deal of joy. I was fortunate enough to view the original when it was shown at the New York Historical Society in New York City – LIFE’S PLEASURES: THE ASHCAN ARTISTS’ BRUSH WITH LEISURE, 1895-1925. The original [...]
I spend a lot of time at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. There are tons of other places in New York City to see art but this place has always been a Mecca for me because of the sheer volume of work. I have been looking at a lot of work from Siena from the [...]