Friday, November 30, 2012

mitchell art: "Emergence"

mitchell art: "Emergence": I wanted to do a piece that captured the new growth of spring as it emerges from winter's long slumber. It is 5" x 16" colored ...

Created With Joy: France In Watercolor

Created With Joy: France In Watercolor: I am in a creative mode but not with a paint brush at the moment. I am involved in a Webinarts 101 class with Leslie Saeta . You can chec...

It's About Time: Scarves to keep warm...

It's About Time: Scarves to keep warm...: Anders Zorn,  (Swedish artist, 1860–1920) Ols Maria, 1918 Anders Zorn, (Swedish artist, 1860–1920) Mona, 1898 Andre Lhote (Fr...

It's About Time: Early Morning Mother

It's About Time: Early Morning Mother: Elanor Colburn (American artist, 1866-1939) New Earth

A DRAWING A DAY: "Instant bliss" Asian girl 7x9 female charcoal por...

A DRAWING A DAY: "Instant bliss" Asian girl 7x9 female charcoal por...: In this instant I used white 75 lb Canford paper , I think its made by Daler Rowney, I started generalizing the forms with vine charcoal fi...

It's About Time: Eva Gonzalès (1849–1883) & Female Impressionists i...

It's About Time: Eva Gonzalès (1849–1883) & Female Impressionists i...: Eva Gonzalez was the daughter of the novelist Emmanuel Gonzalez, a Frenchman of Spanish descent. She was taught by Charles Chaplin who wa...

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

It's About Time: 1930s America's Great Depression - 1934 Public Wor...

It's About Time: 1930s America's Great Depression - 1934 Public Wor...: . Barbara Stevenson (American artist, ) Apple Vendor, 1933-34 The United States of America was in crisis as 1934 approached. Bernice ...

It's About Time: Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907

It's About Time: Paula Modersohn-Becker 1876-1907:   Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) Kopf eines jungen Maedchens mit Perlenkette in Profil nach rechts, 1901 Paula Modersohn-Becker (187...

It's About Time: Self-Portraits Nella Marchesini 1901-1953

It's About Time: Self-Portraits Nella Marchesini 1901-1953: Italian Nella Marchesini’s (1901-1953) self-portraits became progressively more expressive & delicate throughout the 1930s. The artist & h...

It's About Time: Polish artist Maria Mela Muter 1876-1967

It's About Time: Polish artist Maria Mela Muter 1876-1967: . 1930s Maria Mela (Melania) Muter (Mutermilch) (Polish-French artist, 1876-1967) Self Portrait The daughter of a Polish merchant, Mar...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2012: Review of Edm...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2012: Review of Edm...: In the Fall 2012 issue of The Journal of Art Crime , Catherine Sezgin reviews Edmund de Waal's The Hare with the Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inh...

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

It's About Time: The Softer Side of American Ashcan Artist John Slo...

It's About Time: The Softer Side of American Ashcan Artist John Slo...: American John French Sloan (1871-1951) was a member of The Eight, a group of American artists, & he became a leading figure in the Ashcan ...

Monday, November 26, 2012

ARCAblog: Eleven year old boy finds and returns stolen paint...

ARCAblog: Eleven year old boy finds and returns stolen paint...: Mathew Claxton of the Langley Advance in British Columbia broke the story of an 11-year-old boy who recovered a stolen painting from a n...

Sunday, November 25, 2012

It's About Time: Scarves to keep warm...

It's About Time: Scarves to keep warm...: Anders Zorn,  (Swedish artist, 1860–1920) Ols Maria, 1918 Anders Zorn, (Swedish artist, 1860–1920) Mona, 1898 Andre Lhote (Fr...

It's About Time: Winter Snow in 19th-Century America by Various Art...

It's About Time: Winter Snow in 19th-Century America by Various Art...: . Louis Rémy Mignot (American Hudson River School painter, (1831-1870) Winter Skating Scene Louis Rémy Mignot (American Hudson River Scho...

It's About Time: 1930s America's Great Depression - Jobs & Art Acro...

It's About Time: 1930s America's Great Depression - Jobs & Art Acro...: . Stuart Davis (American artist, 1894-1964) Impression of the New York World's Fair (mural study, Communications Building, World's Fair, Fl...

DAILY PAINTWORKS News: DPW Spotlight Interview: Abigail Gutting

DAILY PAINTWORKS News: DPW Spotlight Interview: Abigail Gutting: Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings.  To enter to win Abigail Gutting's pain...

Saturday, November 24, 2012

STUDIO SOUTH COAST: Bullfighting journal posters advertise courage and...

STUDIO SOUTH COAST: Bullfighting journal posters advertise courage and...: Bullfighting journal posters advertise courage and art of matadors

STUDIO SOUTH COAST: ARCAblog: Would you have recognized these painting...

STUDIO SOUTH COAST: ARCAblog: Would you have recognized these painting as stolen ????  ...: ARCAblog: Would you have recognized these paintings as stole... : The Carabinieri TPC listed the images of the paintings recovered earlier t...

STUDIO SOUTH COAST: ARCAblog: Statistics on European Art Crime

STUDIO SOUTH COAST: ARCAblog: Statistics on European Art Crime: ARCAblog: Statistics on European Art Crime : by Dr. Ludo Block, Senior Investigator at Grant Thornton Forensic & Investigation Services Neth...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influenc...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influences PICASSO...: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Pic... : ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Picass...

It's About Time: Morning Madonna

It's About Time: Morning Madonna: . William Dyce (Scottish artist, 1806–1864) The Virgin and Child In this blog, I try to begin each day with a painting of the Madonna &...

Thursday, November 22, 2012

19th-century American Women: Native American Thanks...

19th-century American Women: Native American Thanks...: The Picture Collection of the New York Public Library Image ID: 806997 The Thanksgivings Translated from a traditional Iroquois pra...

It's About Time: Women by Spanish Painter Francisco José de Goya y ...

It's About Time: Women by Spanish Painter Francisco José de Goya y ...: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish painter, 1746–1828) Dutchess of Alba 1797 Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish p...

ARCAblog: Kunsthal Rotterdam Theft: Messenger bags may have ...

ARCAblog: Kunsthal Rotterdam Theft: Messenger bags may have ...: Painting by Gauguin stolen from Kunsthal Rotterdam by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Here’s a link to an artic...

ARCAblog: Kunsthal Rotterdam Theft: Private art investigator...

ARCAblog: Kunsthal Rotterdam Theft: Private art investigator...: Matisse painting stolen last month from Kunsthal by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Dutch private art invest...

ARCAblog: Update on Pretoria Art Museum Theft

ARCAblog: Update on Pretoria Art Museum Theft: Photo Credit - Wikimedia Commons By Lynda Albertson. Four of the paintings stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum have been found in a s...

ARCAblog: Pretoria Art Museum in South Africa robbed

ARCAblog: Pretoria Art Museum in South Africa robbed: "Street Scene" by Gerard Sekoto was one of the paintings stolen  from the Pretoria Art Museum  (City of  Tishwane, Courtesy of The Los...

ARCAblog: Interpol’s International Conference on Counterfeit...

ARCAblog: Interpol’s International Conference on Counterfeit...: By Colette Loll Marvin Recently, I had the honor of being invited to speak at the first ever International Conference on Count...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2012: "The Lord Byr...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2012: "The Lord Byr...: In the Fall 2012 issue of The Journal of Art Crime , regular contributor John Daab writes on "The Lord Byron Forged Letter: Where's the ...

A PAINTING A DAY: "Nonchalant" 6x6 inches Female portrait girl oil o...

A PAINTING A DAY: "Nonchalant" 6x6 inches Female portrait girl oil o...: If you were following my postings on my other blog A drawing a day , you'll notice that I did a preliminary drawing for this painting, now ...

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A PAINTING A DAY: "Fontaine de jeunesse" Female nude in a dress pain...

A PAINTING A DAY: "Fontaine de jeunesse" Female nude in a dress pain...: A more archaic reference for this painting, using an old myth embodied in a female form, the power of myths is that they work at any po...

Monday, November 19, 2012

It's About Time: Women & Pet Birds

It's About Time: Women & Pet Birds: . Edward John Cobbett (American artist, 1815-1899) An Attentive Friend Today we put the birdfeeders up just outside the window for the...

It's About Time: The Haunting Images of Giuseppe Pellizza da Volped...

It's About Time: The Haunting Images of Giuseppe Pellizza da Volped...: Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (Italian artist, 1868-1907)My Mother 1890 Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (Italian artist, 1868-1907) Fie...

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Sunday, November 18, 2012

19th-century American Women: Life in the streets of 1840s New York City by Nico...

19th-century American Women: Life in the streets of 1840s New York City by Nico...: Nicolino Calyo (Italian-born American artist, 1799-1884) Broadway New York City 1840-44 Born in Naples, Nicolino Calyo was an accompl...

It's About Time: Working with textiles in 19th-20th Century Europe

It's About Time: Working with textiles in 19th-20th Century Europe: Odilon Redon (French artist, 1840-1916) Portrait of Madame Arthur Fontaine 1901 Harold Knight (English artist, 1874-1961) Knitting 1915...

It's About Time: A Few Summer Fashion Statements

It's About Time: A Few Summer Fashion Statements: . John Lavery (Irish painter, 1856-1941) Spring Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French artist, 1865-1953) Portrait of Mlle Carlier 1910 Abbo...

It's About Time: Flower Sellers 1700-1900s

It's About Time: Flower Sellers 1700-1900s: George Beare (English artist fl 1743-1749) Flower seller William Powell Frith (English Painter, 1819-1909).The Flower Seller 1871 ...

It's About Time: Rainy day reading indoors beyond the USA

It's About Time: Rainy day reading indoors beyond the USA: . Gustave Cailebotte (French artist, 1848–1894), Woman Reading 1880 Albert Edelfelt (Finnish artist, 1854-1905) Lukeva Ninen, 1885 ...

It's About Time: Modest American Women by Agnès Millen Richmond 187...

It's About Time: Modest American Women by Agnès Millen Richmond 187...: Agnès Millen Richmond (American artist, 1870–1964) Woman with Clasped Hands Born in Alton, Ilinois, Agnes Millen Richmond (1870-1964) st...

It's About Time: Modest American Women by Agnès Millen Richmond 187...

It's About Time: Modest American Women by Agnès Millen Richmond 187...: Agnès Millen Richmond (American artist, 1870–1964) Woman with Clasped Hands Born in Alton, Ilinois, Agnes Millen Richmond (1870-1964) st...

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

It's About Time: Brief History of bringing flowers indoors - The Gr...

It's About Time: Brief History of bringing flowers indoors - The Gr...: The possibility of growing tender plants in greenhouses had fascinated early Americans at least since the 1st half of the 18th-century in ...

It's About Time: Jean Edouard Vuillard Brings his Flower Pots Indoo...

It's About Time: Jean Edouard Vuillard Brings his Flower Pots Indoo...: Jean Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Pot of Flowers, c 1904 In 1895, Thadée & Misia Natanson commissioned from Vuillard a series of 5 deco...

A PAINTING A DAY: "Zen #3" Japanese model female nude in daylight oi...

A PAINTING A DAY: "Zen #3" Japanese model female nude in daylight oi...: 6 x 8 inches Oil on Canvas panel Fresh off the easel, this is a new intimist piece that I just painted, the warm daylight coming from t...

Monday, November 12, 2012

ARCAblog: Interpol’s International Conference on Counterfeit...

ARCAblog: Interpol’s International Conference on Counterfeit...: By Colette Loll Marvin Recently, I had the honor of being invited to speak at the first ever International Conference on Count...

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Vintage Blog: Alberto Vargas

Vintage Blog: Alberto Vargas: via

Vintage Blog: Rudolph Belarski

Vintage Blog: Rudolph Belarski: Large Size via Rudolph Belarski (1900-1983) est un illustrateur américain.

Vintage Blog: Alberto Vargas : Spanish Gypsy 1928

Vintage Blog: Alberto Vargas : Spanish Gypsy 1928: via

Art Blog: George Spencer Watson : Nude 1927

Art Blog: George Spencer Watson : Nude 1927: via

It's About Time: Judith & Holofernes 1900s-Present

It's About Time: Judith & Holofernes 1900s-Present: . 1901 Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Judith I 1909 Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) Judith II 1900s Arthur Greuell (Belgian artist, 1891-1966) Judit...

It's About Time: Orientalism in European paintings

It's About Time: Orientalism in European paintings: . Egron Sellif Lundgren (Swedish painter, 1815-1875) Francis Bernard Dicksee (English painter, 1853-1928) Emile Charles Emile H...

It's About Time: A Male Odalisque relaxing with his favorite pipe &...

It's About Time: A Male Odalisque relaxing with his favorite pipe & dog  ...: Pyotr Konchalovsky (Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky, Russian Пётр Петро́вич Кончало́вский) (Russian artist, 1876-1956), Portrait of Vsevolod...

DAILY PAINTWORKS News: DPW Spotlight Interview: Parastoo Ganjei

DAILY PAINTWORKS News: DPW Spotlight Interview: Parastoo Ganjei: Each week we spotlight a different DPW artist who gives away one of their best paintings.  To enter to win Parastoo Ganjei's painting, Cat...

Saturday, November 10, 2012

It's About Time: Friends & Family in the Garden

It's About Time: Friends & Family in the Garden: . Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (Australian artist, 1864–1947) Melbourne Botanic Gardens Emanuel Phillips Fox (Australian artist, 1865...

It's About Time: Marketing & Cooking & a little less Religion in Re...

It's About Time: Marketing & Cooking & a little less Religion in Re...: . Vincenzo Campi (Italian painter, c 1536 – 1591) The Fishmonger & Christ in the House of Mary and Martha Vincenzo Campi (Italian painter...

It's About Time: Monday is laundry day - 1700s-1900s Europe

It's About Time: Monday is laundry day - 1700s-1900s Europe: . Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French Rococo Era painter, 1725-1805) The Laundress 1761 When I was a child, Monday was laundry day. Today we ...

It's About Time: A few intriguing non-American 1760s portraits

It's About Time: A few intriguing non-American 1760s portraits: Jacques Louis David (French artist, 1748–1825) Madame François Buron, 1769  Joseph Wright of Derby (English artist, 1734-1797) Por...

It's About Time: Everyday life in 19th century America - On the wat...

It's About Time: Everyday life in 19th century America - On the water ...: . Edward Lamson Henry (American genre artist, 1841–1919) Down the river Robert Salmon (English-born American artist, c 1775-1845) W...

It's About Time: Horticulturalist Mollie Ridout's Favorite Cat

It's About Time: Horticulturalist Mollie Ridout's Favorite Cat: . Mollie Ridout, gardener extraordinaire who is the Director of Horticulture at the Historic Annapolis Foundation, Inc, loves her hard-work...

Created With Joy: Pin Mill UK

Created With Joy: Pin Mill UK: Here is one more painting from my recent trip to the UK. It was painted at Pin Mill on a windy, cool day, we were all so grateful ther...

A PAINTING A DAY: "Fleeting light" 9x12 Female nude plein air landsc...

A PAINTING A DAY: "Fleeting light" 9x12 Female nude plein air landsc...: 9 x 12 inches Oil on canvas This piece comes framed in a deep dark frame, for price inquiries email me at danipeci@yahoo.com

ARCAblog: Eleven year old boy finds and returns stolen paint...

ARCAblog: Eleven year old boy finds and returns stolen paint...: Mathew Claxton of the Langley Advance in British Columbia broke the story of an 11-year-old boy who recovered a stolen painting from a n...

ARCAblog: Palais Fesch Art Theft Update: Security guard and ...

ARCAblog: Palais Fesch Art Theft Update: Security guard and ...: Palais Fesch in Adjaccio, Corsica On October 26, 2012, two men received prison sentences of two and for years for stealing four painti...

Friday, November 2, 2012

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2012: Columnist Noa...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2012: Columnist Noa...: In the Fall 2012 issue of The Journal of Art Crime , columnist Noah Charney writes on "Counterfeit Money" in Lessons from the History of...

Thursday, November 1, 2012

ARCAblog: Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Theft: Journalist Colin Gle...

ARCAblog: Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Theft: Journalist Colin Gle...: by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog So much has been written about the October 16 theft of seven paintings from the Triton Foundation on di...