Tag: Art
Vernacular Photography and the Best Wedding Photograph Ever!
One of the most interesting and accessible portals to collecting art is Vernacular Photography. All it takes is an eye for well-composed images, a bit of luck, and a willingness to preserve quality work through […]
Curiously Collecting Art II: Kill the Sofa
Jumping from the tracks, we scrambled up the shale hillside into the blue shadow of an open-grate steel bridge just in time to witness the approaching locomotive flatten the first of five copper pennies Timmy […]
The Visual Voice
Transcending culture, spoken language, and time, all visual artists command a common visual vocabulary. Though universal, this visual language breaks into many dialects as artists evolve means of communicating that becomes their voice. Some common […]
Nathan James Little Wounded
There is a certain material honesty in the art of Nathan James Little Wounded, a rare quality often absent in galleries of contemporary art. His complete and confident understanding of the nature of wood, horn, […]
Roman Golla and the Goddess Imagination
Born in the southern highlands of Poland, the paintings of Naïve artist, Roman Golla, reveal an intimacy with nature few urbanites experience. Rural people’s lives weave across the warp of the seasons. They understand the […]
Lady Holding A Portfolio
Her eyes are a pale hazel, her hair a deep auburn, delicately framing a slightly smiling face in curls. She sits pink-cheeked, in a black dress among a background of sepia and Van Dyke brown, […]
Finding Roman Golla: The Portfolio
What is it about the human spirit that causes people to make things? What flows in the pulse of humanity that compels the making of art? How do we recognize the innate roots of the […]
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 […]
Curiously Collecting Art
Some years ago, while visiting the home of an older art collector to view his small but beautiful collection of 18th century Northern European landscape paintings, I became curious about his motivation to collect art. […]
The Unintended Curator 