Writing about Artists
Category: Artists
Growing up in Peace: Post-Civil War Images of Children by Winslow Homer
A s an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly, Winslow Homer’s depictions of camp life in the Union Army endeared him to Northern readers during the American Civil War. Moving among the ranks, Homer found less interest […]
Finding Roman Golla
Some artists burn through their brief existence like shooting stars across a summer sky. We see them as streaks of light, sparkling in the darkness, spinning and twisting through space, a silent dance for those […]
Surrealism’s Prange
Many contemporary students of art find interest in Surrealism. It is one of the few art movements with the ability to alter the viewer’s perception by simultaneously disturbing and settling the waters of reality, distilling […]
Christina Chalon
One-hundred years before American Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt created timeless images of mothers and children, there was Christina Chalon, a woman of rare artistic focus and incredible skill. Two of Chalon’s untitled genre works, on […]
Insightful Eye, Lucid Hand, Brilliant Mind: The Art of Honore’ Daumier
Art can be a dangerous profession. Some such thought such might have occurred to the 24 year old artist Honore’ Daumier (1808-1879) as he entered the gates of Ste Pe’lagie Prison in August of 1832. […]
Rolling Thunder
Genuine insight sometimes bites into our awareness like an Old Testament vision in the desert. I favor this simile due to a personal experience etched, with the help of a set of Kodachrome slides, vividly […]
What Is, Need Not Be
The Atlantic Souvenir, a petite, early 19th century gift book, published in Philadelphia between 1825 and 1832, contains poems, stories and engravings of paintings for the enjoyment of its readers. Engraving, lithography, and etching were […]
Eudora Welty, Photographer
Eudora Welty is a very familiar name in American letters. Those who revel in her keenly descriptive prose might also be aware of her early career in photography, as this corresponds with some of the […]
The Unintended Curator 