Tag Archives: art

Gibson Girl Madness

Posted on April 6, 2006 by sheila

As you can tell from my blog design, I’m kind of nuts for Charles Dana Gibson. I have a huge old coffee table book of his work (sadly, I have no coffee table) … and … there’s just something about … Continue reading →

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Illustration

Posted on January 6, 2006 by sheila

Two gorgeous posts on one of my favorite blogs about illustrator Jessie Wilcox Smith. Here is the first post. My favorite image is the 5th one down. Just beautiful and evocative. And here is the second post. His archives, too, … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Walker Evans

Posted on November 3, 2005 by sheila

Biography of Walker Evans here. Below you will find a bunch of his photographs – interspersed with one of my favorite paragraphs from his collaboration with the brilliant James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Some of the photographs … Continue reading →

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100 years of illustration

Posted on October 17, 2005 by sheila

Go to this blog and just scroll through the gorgeousness. Example here. Look at the last illustration in that post – the black and white one of the cowboy. Just marvelous. It’s one of my favorite blogs out there – … Continue reading →

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Maxfield Parrish:

Posted on April 4, 2005 by sheila

He was the first artist I ever was aware of, as a youngun, because my aunt Regina had a book of his artwork in her room, and I used to look through it, in total wonder, when we would go … Continue reading →

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My (our) review of The Gates

Posted on February 23, 2005 by sheila

As you all will recall, Christo’s The Gates, now up in Manhattan (which I saw and thought was a lot of fun) inspired the group of readers here to go on a rampage of pretentious art-critic-y criticism, just for fun. … Continue reading →

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Vis a vis The Gates

Posted on February 16, 2005 by sheila

So Curly and I were discussing, via email, my post about The Gates and how some people seem truly ANGRY about these things. I am baffled by their response, and baffled by their rage. It seems to me these people … Continue reading →

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Christo’s Orange Gates in Central Park

Posted on February 15, 2005 by sheila

I know you’ve heard of them. Everyone has heard of them. I’m going to see them on Sunday. I always found Christo’s stuff kind of amusing (even though I’ve never seen any of his things in person). Christo’s wrapping and … Continue reading →

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The Stolen Scream

Posted on August 24, 2004 by sheila

Edvard Munch’s The Scream was stolen (along with one other Munch painting), in broad daylight, off of the walls of the Munch Museum, in Oslo. There were other museum-goers there, many witnesses. The thieves apparently, in their haste to grab … Continue reading →

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