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Top 10
I was invited by Blogs.com to list my top 10 art blogs you can find the list here.http://www.blogs.com/topten/10-great-art-blogs-and-resources/index.html
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Made a list and made it on a list!
http://www.blogs.com/topten/top-10-art-history-and-museum-blogs/The Art History Blog
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Nimble Fingers
Gee's Bend Quilters Collective, Gee's Bend Alabama The ladies of Gee's Bend have been making quilts for more than six generations. Largely using scraps of old material, they have created some of the...
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Masterpiece Cards Guest Blogging
http://www.themasterpiececards.com/famous-paintings-reviewed/Check out the site for Masterpiece Cards - they invited me to do a guest blog.
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An Apple a Day
Rebel in the Making: Schoolboys Exercising, with One Eating an Apple, Tokyo, Japan, 1936 by Fritz Henle, University of Texas.There was a wonderful show of the photography of Fritz Henle at that Ransom...
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Mad Architecture
The Old Pennsylvannia Station, NYC, 1910-1963, McKim,Mead & White Architects.When the original Beaux-Arts station was torn down in 1963 there was such an uproar from the citizens of NYC that the...
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Rose Bowl
White and Pink Roses by Henri Fantin-Latour, Private Collection.A friend of the Impressionists Manet and Bazille, in his early career Fantin-Latour was part of the traditional academic salon. He...
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Cafe Art
Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven by Paul Gauguin, 1888, National Gallery of Art.Known as the Volpini Suite, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, have organized and...
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Merry Masked Men
Gift Rapt by Charley HarperMid 20th century artist and illustrator Charley Harper's work can be found in everything from posters, calendars, and books of all kinds. He felt an affinity toward nature...
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Tweets!
Your Daily Art on TwitterTwitter followers - Your Daily Art is now on Twitter. Hope to see you there too!Happy 2010,Martha
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Looking Back
The Great City of Tenochtitlan by Diego Rivera, 1945, Mural from the National Palace, Mexico City.Diego Rivera was an active and outspoken Communist who painted these murals (featuring the world of the...
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Attention Michigan Artists:
Works Progress Administration PosterThere is a contest taking place until February 15th where artists, designers, graphic artists, etc. are invited to create a poster in the WPA style to help promote...
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Familiar
Winter Sun by Alex Colville, 2005Canadian artist Alex Colville paints highly detailed images in the pointillist style - unusual because of the slow exacting methods it requires - yet his subjects are...
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Build Your Own
Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Leon Gerome, ca. 1890, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtGerome is well known for his beautiful paintings but he also took up sculpture late in his career and created a...
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Ragamuffins
Young Boys of Wartime Liverpool by Virgil D. Haynes, 1943, private collection.Virgil Haynes took this photo while serving in WW II working at the 38th Station Hospital in England and France. After the...
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By Popular Demand
Wash Day by Virgil D. Haynes, 1959, private collection.Troop Transport, Chartres by Virgil D. Haynes, 1945, private collection
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Resting
Flower Market, Tokyo by Robert Frederick Blum, c. 1892, The Manoogian CollectionBlum was born in Cincinnati where he worked for a lithographer before he began to take classes in drawing. He had a...
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Floating
Black, White, and Ten Red by Alexander Calder, 1957, NGA, Washington.Calder was from a family of artists but chose to himself to train as an engineer; skills that would serve him well when he changed...
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For Mother
Maman by Louise Bourgeois,1999 (cast 2001)Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, SpainAt first glance it may seem that by entitling this piece Maman (Mother in French) that Louise Bourgeois was not fond of her...
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Holy Cows
Nebamun’s cattle , fragment of a scene,Thebes, Egypt Late 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC, The British Museum.The Egyptians considered cows an essential element of life and survival. As the once fertile...
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"Miss Perry's Pottery"
Classic shape and colors, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MIThe Pewabic pottery was founded by Mary Chase Perry Stratton in 1903 in Detroit and the building they built to house the pottery in 1915 is still...
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