An Orange Orange in Sun

An Orange Orange in Sun

painted January 28, 2022
10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed,
$300

Minneola and Pear and Long Winter Shadows

Minneola and Pear
and Long Winter Shadows

on the snow behind my home in Shapleigh, Maine
on January 25, 2022, painted January 26/27, 2022
10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper,
framed, $300.

Minneola Tucked in a Snow Crevice

Minneola Tucked in
a Snow Crevice

on my driveway's plowed snowbank
in Shapleigh, Maine on January 25, 2022,
painted January 25/26, 2022
7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper,
framed, $150, for sale online at my art blog.

Grapefruit Snow Life

Grapefruit Snow Life

A red grapefruit on the snow behind my
home in the late afternoon on January 4, 2022,
painted January 12, 2022
10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper,
framed, $300

Winter Trunks Packed

Winter Trunks Packed

behind my home on January 10, 2022,
painted January 18, 2022
12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed,
$400

The Art of Woods with Snow

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The Art of Woods with Snow
The Trunks Are Packed
with art by:
Rockwell Kent, American
Koloman Moser, Austrian
David Grossman, American
Chu Teh-Chun, Chinese-American
Edvard Munch, Norwegian
Georgia O'Keeffe, American
William Thon, American
Mark Edwards, Scottish

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Au Sable River, Winter: Adirondacks
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), American
Oil on canvas, 39" x 28" (w x h), 1960
Gift from the artist in 1964 to:
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Source WiKi edited:
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager. Kent was not a Communist and considered his political views to be in the best traditions of American democracy. From 1957 to 1971, Kent was president of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. After a well-received exhibition of his work in Moscow at the Pushkin Museum in 1957-58, he donated several hundred of his paintings and drawings to the Soviet peoples in 1960.

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Pine Forest in Winter /
Föhrenwald im Winter
Koloman Moser (1868-1918), Austrian
Oil on canvas, 18" x 21" (w x h), circa 1907

Source WiKi edited:
Koloman Moser was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art. He was one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte.

He designed a wide array of art works, including books and graphic works from postage stamps to magazine vignettes; fashion; stained glass windows, porcelains and ceramics, blown glass, tableware, silver, jewelry, and furniture.

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Stained Glass Sky
David Grossman (1984- ), American
Oil on linen panel, 40" x 60" (w x h)
Private Collection

David Grossman:
"The fragmented colors of dusk filtering through branches and the hush of being inside of a winter forest made me think of a cathedral, quiet and illuminated as light pours through the patterns of stained glass."

Grossmann and his wife, Kristy, live in western Colorado. His paintings have been featured in Artists and Illustrators, American Art Collector, Plein Air Magazine, and the Royal Academy Magazine. In 2021, Southwest Art Magazine named him as one of the "10 top artists who will help define the future of western art."

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Printemps Hivernal
Chu Teh-Chun (1920-2014), Chinese-French
Oil on canvas,
1986-1987
Sotheby's 2014 New York auction Sold $4,421,000 USD

Source WiKi edited:
Chu Teh-Chun (or Zhu Dequn) was a Chinese-French abstract painter acclaimed for his pioneering style integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western abstract art. He enrolled in the National School of Fine Arts, now the China Academy of Art. He was the first ethnic Chinese member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of France, and together with Wu Guanzhong and Zao Wou-Ki were dubbed the "Three Musketeers" of modernist Chinese artists trained in China and France.

According to the Hurun Art List, the total value of Chu's artworks sold in 2013 at public auction was $65 million USD, ranking third among all living Chinese artists.

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Winter
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Norwegian
Oil and tempera on canvas, 31" x 26" (w x h), 1899-1900
Private collection

Source Wiki edited:
In 1899, Munch began an intimate relationship with Tulla Larsen, a "liberated" upper-class woman. They traveled to Italy together and upon returning, Munch began another fertile period in his art, which included landscapes, including Winter above, and his final painting in "The Frieze of Life" series, The Dance of Life (1899). Larsen was eager for marriage and Munch begged off. His drinking and poor health reinforced his fears, as he wrote in the third person:

"Ever since he was a child he had hated marriage. His sick and nervous home had given him the feeling that he had no right to get married."

Munch almost gave in to Tulla, but fled from her in 1900, also turning away from her considerable fortune, and moved to Berlin.

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Bare Tree Trunks with Snow
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), American
Oil on Canvas, 40" x 30" (w x h), 1946
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

Source Museum notes:
Taking winter-stripped trees in upstate New York as her subject, Georgia O'Keeffe simplified what she saw until what is left in this painting is an exploration of shape and color. O'Keeffe abstracted the essence of these forms by pulling in close to the trees without focusing on details; the forms are smooth, the bark dissolving into areas of soft grays and warm beige. The shallow space and cropped trees lend an ambiguity to the subject resolved only by the descriptive title. Throughout her career, O'Keeffe united abstraction with an abiding interest in nature, creating signature, close-up images of natural forms.

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Deep Winter
William Thon (1906-2000), American
Oil on Masonite, 36" x 22" (w x h), 1975
1976 Audubon Artist's Prize, New York City
Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, Maine, Sold $12,000.

Source ArtNet, Caldbeck Gallery and WiKi edited:
Born in Manhattan, William Thon made his home in Port Clyde, Maine for over 50 years. He enjoyed early professional success in New York at the 1939 Corcoran Biennial Exhibition and the 1942 Artists for Victory Show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This "Victory" show brought him to the attention of Alan Gruskin whose Midtown Galleries held Thon's first one man show in 1944. William Thon, The Artist and His Work was published in 1964 by Viking Press.

William Thon had no formal art training apart from 30 days at the Art Students League. He discovered his individual style through trial and error. He began painting in oil in a fairly realistic mode, but during his stay at the American Academy in Rome he discovered watercolor as a serious medium and loosened his style some. His work became more abstract, although the sources were still recognizable. Perhaps the major breakthrough for his painting came with the discovery of an abandoned quarry near his home in Maine. Here he painted spidery trees with rectilinear slabs of granite interspersed. While still based in nature, these were by far the most abstract of his paintings.

William Thon held an honorary Doctor of Arts from Bates College in Lewiston Maine, and was a member of The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as the National Academy of Design. His works are in over 60 museums nationwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Portland Museum of Art. The Portland Museum of Art's Biennial exhibition is supported by a multi-million-dollar contribution from Thon's estate.

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Beside the Path
Mark Edwards (1951- ), Scottish
Acrylic on canvas, 29" x 21" (w x h), 2010

Source artist's web site, edited:
Mark Edwards, born in 1951, went to study at Medway College of Art in 1967. He continued his studies at Walthamstow College of Art in London. Impatient to start his art career, he didn't complete his degree. He lives in the north of Scotland.

He's painted his Winter Wood studies of a snow-covered wood for more than ten years. One might expect to see deer standing knee-deep in the freshly fallen snow, but he paints a subtly amusing series of men, wearing black overcoats and Homburg hats. Creative and technical experimentation during the artist's time as an illustrator, coupled with his desire to avoid a preconceived narrative have led to this highly original body of work. Its bold compositions and isolated characters are enigmatic, ambiguous and even darkly comic.

The artist's website is HERE.

Comice and Bartlett Pears Snow Life

Comice and Bartlett Pears
Snow Life

in the late afternoon on January 4, 2022,
painted January 10, 2022
10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed,
$300

Grapefruit Snow Life Study

Grapefruit Snow Life Study

A Red Grapefruit on the snow behind my home
in the late afternoon on January 4, 2022,
painted January 12, 2022
7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed,
$150

Grapefruit in Art Museums

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Grapefruit in Art Museums
Eyes Ready to Feast On...

The museums from around the world in Greece, the US, and the UK appear in the following order:

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Botany Library, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

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Grapefruit
Edward Chalmers Leavitt (1842-1904), American
Oil on canvas, 22" x 16" (w x h)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

Wiki and Bedford Fine Art Gallery edited:
Edward Chalmers Leavitt, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, attended private schools in Rhode Island and the Kimball Union Academy in Meredith, New Hampshire. It was not until he enlisted in the United States Navy during the US Civil War that he began honing his drawing skills. Leavitt studied with James Lewin, one of the Group of 1855 artists who promoted the arts in Providence. Leavitt was said to be the most renowned still life painter of his day in Providence, although today he's largely forgotten. Leavitt's work is in the collection of the Brandywine River Museum, the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, Massachusetts, in the collection of the Cummer Museum of Art In Jacksonville, Florida, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California.

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Pompelmouse chadec /
(Cirtus paradisi) Grapefruit
Antoine Risso (1777-1845), French
Watercolor on paper
Page 65 from Histoire naturelle des Orangers
(Natural History of Orange Trees) (1818-1822)
by Antoine Risso
Botany Library, Natural History Museum, London, UK

Wiki edited:
Giuseppe Antonio Risso (1777-1845), called Antoine Risso, was a naturalist from Niçard (Nice in the Duchy of Savoy where the language was Niçard, though no longer used today.) Risso was born in Nice and studied there. He published Ichthyologie de Nice (Fish of Nice) (1810), Histoire naturelle de l'Europe méridionale (Natural History of Southern Europe) (1826) and Histoire Naturelle des Orangers (Natural History of Orange Trees) (1818-1822). He named 549 marine genera and species. Risso's dolphin is named after him, his description forming the basis of the first public description of the animal, by Georges Cuvier, in 1812.

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Still Life with Grapefruit and Seltzer Bottle
Larry Rivers (1923-2002) American
Oil and oil stick on canvas, 36" x 28" (w x h), 1954
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Wiki edited:
Larry Rivers, born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg, (1923-2002) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Rivers took up painting in 1945 and studied at the Hans Hofmann School from 1947-48. He earned a BA in art education from New York University in 1951. His work was quickly acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. Considered by many scholars to be the Godfather and Grandfather of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction. In 2002 a major retrospective of Rivers' work was held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. New York University bought correspondences and other documents from the Larry Rivers Foundation to house in their archive. Throughout his career, Rivers maintained studios in New York City, Southampton, Long Island, and Zihuatanejo, Mexico.

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Grapefruit and Endive
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), American
Oil on canvas, 11" x 8" (w x h), circa 1930
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Denver Art Museum edited:
O'Keeffe traveled to New Mexico, her first trip there, in 1929 with her friend Rebecca Strand/ They stayed in Taos with Mabel Dodge Luhan, who provided the women with studios. She painted this the following year.

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Grapefruit
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953), Japanese-American
Watercolor on paper, 16" x 22" (w x h), 1923
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Wiki edited:
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953) was a Japanese-American painter, photographer and printmaker. Born on September 1, 1889 in Okayama, Japan, in 1906, choosing not to attend military school in Japan, he immigrated to the United States. He spent some time in Seattle, before enrolling at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. Three years later he moved to New York City and studied at the Art Students League of New York. He later taught at the Art Students League in New York City and in Woodstock, New York, were around 1930, the he built a home and studio on Ohayo Mountain Road in Woodstock.

In 1935, Kuniyoshi was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. He was also an Honorary member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and first president of Artists Equity Association, now known as New York Artists Equity Association. In 1948, Kuniyoshi became the first living artist chosen to have a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1952, Kuniyoshi also exhibited at the Venice Biennial.

For an unexpected surprise, see Yasuo Kuniyoshi's 1930s lithograph of South Berwick, Maine HERE.

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Grapefruit (Pamplemousse)
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), American
Lithograph, edition of 28, 20" x 16" (w x h), circa 1964-1965
from Suite of Plant Lithographs. 1964-65, 1966
Publisher:  Maeght Éditeur, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Intriguing Observation:
Two museums have this series of lithographs, but only one has the titles listed correctly. MOMA, New York apparently has it correct, Tangerine (Mandarine) and Grapefruit (Pamplemousse), but the MFA, Boston seems to have the titles for these two switched. MOMA list HERE. MFA List HERE, based on the leaf shapes of Tangerine and Grapefruit trees.

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Nature morte aux pamplemousses /
Still Life with Grapefruits
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French
Oil on canvas, 30" x 26" (w x h), circa 1901
Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece

Museum notes edited:
In July 1895, Paul Gauguin made his second and last voyage to Tahiti, leaving France once and for all. Driven by lack of recognition in his homeland, financial difficulties and his constant desire to flee, in July 1895, Paul Gauguin made his second and last voyage to Tahiti, leaving France once and for all.
Painting in Tahiti, the classic elements of a Western still life have been replaced by exotic flowers, peppers and grapefruits; only the treatment of the tablecloth is similar, offering the same unity, the same harmony to the whole. It's believed that Gauguin painted Still Life with Grapefruits, which for many years was entitled Still Life with Apples and Flowers, in 1901. Experts came to this conclusion based on the arrangement of objects on the leather trunk, bringing the composition close to other paintings which were carried out that same year, and on his confinement to the hospital and subsequently to his studio due to illness, when he painted without a model. He died two hears after painting this.

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Tables for Ladies
Edward Hopper, (1882-1967) American
Oil on canvas, 60" x 48" (w x h), 1930
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

MET notes and Wiki edited:
In Tables for Ladies, a waitress leans forward to adjust the vividly painted foods at the window as a couple sits quietly in the richly paneled and well-lit interior. A cashier attentively tends to business at her register. Though they appear weary and detached, these two women hold jobs newly available to female city dwellers outside the home. The title alludes to a recent social innovation, in which dining establishments advertised Tables for Ladies in order to welcome their newly mobile female customers.

In the past, it had often been assumed that women appearing alone in restaurants or bars were prostitutes looking for business; now, dining on their own or dining with other women, they would be treated respectfully. In addition, the date of this painting serves as a reminder that Hopper was living in New York during the Great Depression, when many Americans could not afford to dine out, even at such an unpretentious establishment as this one.

The Art of Complimentary Fruit

The Art of Complimentary Fruit

A Snow Life of an Opal Apple and a Yellow Lemon
on the snow behind my home on January 4, 2022,
painted January 10, 2022
10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper,
framed, $300

The Art of Yellow and Blue

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The Art of Yellow and Blue
Playing Together

1
First Snow
Timkov Nikolai

Source Wiki and oknasocrealisma.com edited:
"The penetrating love of nature, its poetic perception, the ability to find the beautiful in any seemingly most inconspicuous corner, that's what is most characteristic of this master," wrote one of the Leningrad newspapers about Timkov's landscapes, among them... First Snow (both 1960) and First Snow (1961).
Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (1912-1993) was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (which before 1992 was the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation). He lived and worked in Leningrad and is regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, and known worldwide for his landscape paintings.

His paintings reside in State Russian Museum, in Art museums and private collections in Russia, France, England, Japan, in the U.S., and throughout the world. In 1990s, after the death of the artist, his work has received recognition and aroused great interest abroad. Exhibitions of his works were held in San Francisco (1998, 2000, 2001), Aspen (1999), New York (1999, 2001), Scottsdale (2000), Palm Beach (2000), Vail (2001), Washington (2001) and other cities. This brought the artist fame and glory of the Russian Impressionist. One of the first Soviet artists, and perhaps the first landscape painter, he was listed in the West as one of the important painters of the 20th century.

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Moon Radiance
Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867-1938), American
Watercolor with gum coating on hot pressed
off-white wove paper laid down onto thick wood panel,
13" x 10" (w x h), 1927
Karen & Kevin Kennedy Collection, New York, New York

Source Wiki edited:
Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867-1938) born Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner in Germany and after 1933 known as Oscar Florianus Bluemner, was a German-born American Modernist painter. He studied painting and architecture at the Royal Academy of Design in Berlin. At 26-years-old He moved to Chicago in 1893 where he freelanced as a architectural draftsman at the World's Columbian Exposition.
In 1901, he relocated to New York City where he also was unable to find steady employment. In 1903, he created the winning design for the Bronx Borough Courthouse in New York, although it is credited to Michael J. Garvin. The scandal that arose around this Garvin credit took down borough president Louis Haffen for corruption and fraud.

In 1908 Bluemner met Alfred Stieglitz, who introduced him to the artistic innovations of the European and American avant-garde. By 1910, Bluemner had decided to pursue painting full-time rather than architecture. He exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show. Then in 1915 Stieglitz gave him a solo exhibition at his gallery, 291. Despite participating in several exhibitions, including solo shows, for the next ten years Bluemner failed to sell many paintings and lived with his family in near poverty. In the 1930s he created paintings for the Federal Arts Project. In 1935 he had a successful one-man show at the Marie Harriman Gallery in New York City. On January 12, 1938 Bluemner committed suicide.

Often overlooked in his lifetime, today Bluemner is widely acknowledged as a key player in the creation of American artistic Modernism, with better-known colleagues such as Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin. An oil painting by Bluemner, Illusion of a Prairie, New Jersey (Red Farm at Pochuck) (1915) sold at Christie's, New York, for $5,346,500 on November 30, 2011, see HERE. Stetson University holds more than 1,000 pieces of Oscar Bluemner's work bequeathed in 1997 by his daughter, Vera Bluemner Kouba.

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Blue and Yellow, Newyln (Cornwall)
Sir Terry Frost, R.A. (1915-2003)
Acrylic and collage, 17" x 23" (w x h)
Christies London 2005 Auction
Sold GBP 3,840 ($5,240 USD)
Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003), British

Source: Wiki edited:
Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (The Royal Academy of Arts) (1915-2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. He didn't become an artist until he was in his 30s. During World War II, he served in France, the Middle East and Greece, before joining the commandos. In June 1941 while serving with the commandos in Crete, he was captured and sent to various prisoner of war camps. At Stalag 383 in Bavaria, he met Adrian Heath who encouraged him to paint. Commenting later he described these years as a "tremendous spiritual experience, a more aware or heightened perception during starvation."

In 1992 he was elected a Royal Academician and he was knighted in 1998. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, color and shape to start a new art movement in England. He became a leading exponent of abstract art and a recognized figure of the British art establishment.

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Sea Gate and Goldenrod (Maine)
William Kienbusch (1914-1980), American
Casein on paper, 45" x 32" (w x h), 1963
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Source Art in Embassies, US Dept. of State edited:
William Kienbusch (1914-1980) first painted in Maine in 1934, many time on Monhegan Island, eventually taking up residence on Great Cranberry Isle in 1962. Born in New York City, and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University, he studied at the Art Students League in New York with Raphael Soyer and John Sloan. He lived in Paris in 1937 and 1938, and traveled throughout Europe before the outbreak of war. He taught at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Brooklyn Museum school. His work is included in the collections of many outstanding museums, including that of New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kienbusch worked extensively in casein, turning to Craypas as his primary medium during the last five years of his life when failing health limited his ability to work on larger pieces.

Source Maine Arts Journal edited:
A New Yorker, in the 1930s Kienbusch attended Eliot O'Hara's watercolor class at Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport, Maine. After serving in the Army during World War II, he returned to Maine, staying in Stonington where his hero John Marin had spent time in the 1920s. He knew and mixed with many Maine artist's including Vincent Hartgen of the University of Maine (Bruce McMillan: He was the Art Dept head, an accomplished watercolorist, when I was a student taking art classes at UMO), Frank Hamabe, (Bruce McMillan: As an elementary school age child, I rode my bicycle to the Bangor Daily News for art class on Saturday mornings with Frank Hamabe, memorable), and the children's book author Robert McCloskey, who once referred to Bill as "the rowingest man in Maine." (Bruce McMillan: I was honored to be one of two speakers at a Library Association Luncheon in Los Angeles with Robert McCloskey, author of my favorite children's book, as a child, Make Way for Ducklings).

Best known for semi-abstract landscapes, Kienbusch spent summers photographing and sketching the pine trees, buoys, and shacks of the Maine coast. During the winter months, while teaching at the Brooklyn Museum School, translated his summer's work into geometrically formulated landscapes. During the 1960s Kienbusch adopted a looser technique.

Among Bill's last great subjects was goldenrod, a fitting image for the final years of his life. In an elegy inspired by the painting Sea Gate and Goldenrod, poet Rosanna Warren, who visited Bill on Great Cranberry Island on several occasions, describes the painter lying in his bed with "a patchwork map spread out" over his "failed legs." She wrote:

"…there are
other islands, and already, while we sat
here with you chatting of ours with its goldenrod
what you heard
was the other islands."

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Maine Waters
Wolf Kahn (1927-2020), German-born American
Pastel on paper, 30" x 22" (w x h), 1999-2000
Lempertz Auction house, Cologne, Germany
Auction in 2017 sold for 4.216 € ($4,800 USD)

Source WiKi:
Kahn loved the visual effects of Maine's coastline. In the late 1960s after a number of vacations on Deer Isle, Maine, the foggy conditions ultimately led to a significant shift in Kahn's painting. Years of monochromatic work concentrated on varying tonalities finally gave way to intense color. Kahn recalled later, "I began to let the color come through on my canvases...my pastels were always intense, and finally my painting caught up with them."

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Yellow on Blue
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), American
Oil on canvas, 80" x77" (w x h), 2001
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Source Wiki edited:
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York. On the occasion of the artist's 90th birthday in 2013, the National Gallery of Art in Washington mounted an exhibition of his prints; the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia put together five sculptures in a show; the Phillips Collection in Washington exhibited his panel paintings; and the Museum of Modern Art opened a show of the Chatham Series.

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Articulated Wall
Herbert Bayer
32 prefabricated concrete slabs,
all slightly askew of each other,
held together by an aircraft carrier
refueling mast that runs down the center,
85' tall, near I-25, Denver, Colorado
Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado

Source CPR (Colorado Public Radio) edited:
The sculpture is on private property but it's owned by the Denver Art Museum. The 85-foot-tall artwork was Herbert Bayer's final completed commission before his death in 1985. He "understood that people would see this sculpture from a very busy highway, so he realized that as you went by in a speeding vehicle, the sculpture would change shape," says Gwen Chanzit, curator emerita of modern art at the Denver Art Museum and director of museum studies at the University of Denver.
Beyond French fry and noodle analogies, people have compared the twisting yellow step sculpture to a stack of cheese sticks and Juicy Fruit gum packs piled on top of each other. One's interpretation will likely depend on the angle viewed from and how hungry the viewer is.

The original, or rather the first one, is in Mexico City. Bayer designed it for the 1968 Olympics. It looks like Denver's, except it's more than 20 feet shorter.
Bayer was born in Austria in 1900. At 21-years-old, he enrolled in the Bauhaus art school in Germany. He indeed did many things: graphic design, architecture, painting, sculpting, typography, photography, art direction and more. It was his exhibition design skills that first brought Bayer to New York in the late 1930s, to design several major shows for the Museum of Modern Art. Bayer then emigrated to the U.S., but he was unhappy in Manhattan. He was commissioned to transform Aspen, Colorado, from a relatively unknown mountain town into a cultural and intellectual destination and in 1946 he moved there.

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Blue Shoes, Yellow Bows
Henriette Simon Picker
Oil on canvas, 2012
Henriette Simon Picker Museum of Art, Poughkeepsie, New York

Source Henriette Simon Picker Museum website:
Born Henriette May Simon in 1917 in Jersey City, New Jersey, she died in Poughkeepsie, New York in 2016. In her nineties, during the last six years of her 99-years life, she painted about 200 paintings, almost as many as her prior 75 years. She studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan from 1939-41. Influenced by the Ashcan School and American Realism, she initially focused on everyday scenes of New York City.

In 1929, her father Wilhelm, a German Jewish immigrant and dentist, moved the Simon family back to Germany so his children could have a European education and he could work in his sister's dental practice. From 1929-1933, the family lived in Berlin she studied fine arts and design. In 1933, using ingenuity and persistence, her mother, Eleanor Simon, got the family out of Germany and they returned to the U.S.

In New York she began her career as a shoe designer under the name, Henriette Simon. In 1935, she became the first woman designer hired by the shoe company, I. Miller. She was only 16-year-old. For the next 45 years she designed women's high fashion shoes full time. She went on to design for Mademoiselle, Palizio, D'Antonio, Fox, Selby, Gran Sol and Enna Jetticks. During the 1950s and 1960s, she founded her own design and manufacturing businesses (Simone Fine Shoes to Match and Simone Fine Shoes) in New York and Italy. During the 1950s, 24-year-old Andy Warhol illustrated her shoes for fashion magazines.

In 1940, she married Julian Picker, a news writer for CBS Television, and they had three children.

The Henriette Simon Picker Museum of Art is open to the public by appointment. The museum shares its space with the orthopedic offices of Dr. William Thompson, who has turned all of his public spaces into a museum with white walls and gallery-style lighting. A rotating exhibit of Picker's paintings from different periods is featured. The website is HERE, where you'll see Henriette sitting with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is holding the portrait that Henriette painted of Ruth.

Freyr Climbing Past Two Years

Freyr Climbing Past Two Years

In a playground near his grandparents
Óli and Bína's home in Reykjavík. Iceland on
August 18, 2021 painted December 25, 2022
8" x 10" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper,
framed, gifted to Halla and Siggi.

Freyr at the playground wearing his big peekaboo smile...

Freyr on the playground swing wearing his big smile...

A Pummelo Snow Life Still

A Pummelo Snow Life Still

A Pummelo (Citrus maxima),
(also spelled Pomelo), the principal ancestor
of the grapefruit and the largest citrus fruit from
the family Rutaceae, on snow in a field behind my
home in Shapleigh, Maine on January 7, 2021,
painted December 30, 2021.
10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper,
framed, $300