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Over the years I’ve seen some great exhibits at the Philadelphia Museum of Art including the Renoir Landscapes and the recent one featuring Frida Kahlo.  However, the one that will always stay with me most is the amazing Andrew Wyeth Memory & Magic exhibit.  His art highly influenced some of the

N. C. Wyeth1882 ~ 1945 Between 1904-1928 Wyeth contributed artwork to Scribners Magazine. Here's a batch done between 1907-1916.

In Los Angeles off Broadway behind the Chinatown shops near the 110 are some narrow alleyways. So narrow you might call them passageways. An old Chinese man and his wife were going upstairs as I was taking photos I think they were uncomfortable with me there, but anything for art...

A Happy Year to Be Grimm A look at this year's illustrated children's books suggests that Gresham's law may have gone over the rainbow and mysteriously reversed itself. For once, the good appears to be driving out the bad. Specifically, the good is the republicat... Cancer 0

"I came within view of the sea to the west and being a very clear day, I fairly descried land..." Illustration: N. C. Wyeth Download audio file (crusoe-chapter8.mp3) Technorati Tags parrot, robinson crusoe

Yeah, memes can be fun. I found this one a good exercise in thinking through some of my favorites. I was tagged by Parenthesis who writes Random Blurbings. The list...name my Ultimate Five: Book: Fahrenheit 451. Helped teach me to read, read, read and build a large book collection. Painting: The Giant - N.C.

Henriette Wyeth, Gardenias, c. 1935-1945. Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches. Anyone familiar with the history of the Brandywine School of art knows the well-worn litany of men who shaped that tradition: from the founder, Howard Pyle; to Pyle’s student, N. C. Wyeth; to N.C.’s son, Andrew; and to Andrew’s son, Jamie.

(click images to enlarge) For a decade or more Winold Reiss dedicated his talents to creating a pictorial epic of the North American Indian which shall preserve the distinctive characteristics of these fast vanishing tribes.

The United States Government recently launched a new arts education program titled Picturing America supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Believing that “[g]reat art speaks powerfully, inspires fresh thinking, and connects us to our past,” Picturing America will offer to schools

In one of his letters to his brother Theo, Vincent van Gogh spoke of an American artist whose work "struck me dumb with admiration.” That artist who dumbstruck van Gogh was none other than Howard Pyle, born March 5, 1856.