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For the Love of Tiffany: Silver and Jewelry by Tiffany & Co.
Posted: March 23, 2011 13:13 Last Updated: | Bill RauWhen Charles Lewis Tiffany opened his stationary and fancy goods shop in 1837, he could not have imagined the indelible mark the name "Tiffany" would leave on the history of American decorative arts. Its mere mention conjures images of the timeless elegance and refinement seen in every work of silver and fine jewelry the firm ever created. Tiffany and his partners John Young and J.L. Ellis recognized early on the importance of becoming prominent force in silversmithing. The great increase in demand during this era for both presentation and household silver convinced the trio to open their ...
Fine Art Daily, March 23, 2011
Posted: March 23, 2011 05:00 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersMarch 23, 2011What an opportunist! That Evil Roxanne has adopted my chair find as her own. Maybe she feels like Goldilocks, and we have finally provided a perch that is just right for her - perfect size, height and comfort level. Never mind that the upholstery is a creamy ivory that shows every single one of her many shed hairs. (Never mind that it was a little treat for me!) I wandered into the bedroom yesterday afternoon, found her curled up like a little shedding pill bug, and resigned myself to cat domination. Fine Art Daily had spent a busy morning cranking out reams of spec ad...
Fine Art Daily, March 22, 2011
Posted: March 22, 2011 04:34 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersMarch 22, 2011The tomato farm has burgeoned nicely. We had a small harvest this weekend - almost enough tomatoes for a salad! There is great satisfaction in eating something warm from the garden. The strawberries keep disappearing on me, though. One day there is a cluster of shining scarlet fruit, and the next day - nothing! I don't know if we have an industrial grade of hungry insects or if the Evil Roxanne has developed a penchant for delectable young fruit. The strawberry plants are not near the tantalizing cat nip plant. So many life lessons (and metaphors) to be had in the garde...
Cole's Manifesto
Posted: March 21, 2011 16:46 Last Updated: | Paul G. SteinThere is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past. First Freedom and then Glory—when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption—barbarism at last. --Lord Byron In the summer of 1835, Thomas Cole was in the middle of painting The Course of Empire, his grand five-part cycle of the rise and fall of an imaginary Greco-Roman civilization. He had traveled to Rome in the early 1830s, pondered the ruins, and read the romantic literature. There was more on his mind, however, than Byron and Gibbon. America was experiencing growing pains in the 1830s. By the middle of the decade...
Fine Art Daily, March 21, 2011
Posted: March 21, 2011 04:57 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersBack from Spring Break!March 21, 2011Happy Spring! I hope you had a chance to step outside to watch the moon rise on Saturday. What an amazing event! We went around the corner to one of the Tall One's favorite fishing holes and watched it glide up over Hutchinson Island. There was a blazing red moon path the crossed the Indian River, right to the shore where we sat swatting at the mosquitoes.I did a little consumering this weekend. There were plenty of opportunities for folks to help the economy at the gloriously colorful and upbeat ArtsFest 2011. Tom Winter's huge photos have been ...
Chicago Print and Drawing Fair
Posted: March 17, 2011 21:25 Last Updated: | Susan TellerThe Chicago Print and Drawing Fair is currently on view in the Yates Gallery of the Chicago Cultural Center, March 17 through March 20, 2011. Fourteen dealers are showing, all International Fine Print Dealers Association members. At this fair we are featuring works by women: Peggy Bacon (in advance of our April show), Riva Helfond, Anne Ryan, and Marguerite Zorach. Will Barnet, James Daugherty, Howard Daum, Peter Grippe, Hugh Mesibov, and Fred Shane, round out the group.
“An Untamed Nation” at Questroyal Fine Art
Posted: March 16, 2011 09:52 Last Updated: | Louis M. Salerno, OwnerNew York’s Only Annual Hudson River School Exhibition to Run March 10–April 2, 2011. Questroyal Fine Art, LLC is pleased to announce its eleventh annual Hudson River School exhibition, An Untamed Nation. The show, which opened to the public on March 10, features examples by America’s most beloved landscape artists of the nineteenth-century. Highlights include a sublime landscape by the 19th-century forefather of American art, Thomas Doughty, a marine masterpiece by Luminist painter Francis Augustus Silva, a vibrant Hudson River scene by Jasper Francis Cropsey, and a poetic landscape...
Fine Art Daily, March 11, 2011
Posted: March 11, 2011 06:12 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersMarch 11, 2011It's Food Friday!I entered today's FAD in the Food52 Tart Contest this week. (No comments, please, Red Hots.)If you have a moment, wander by the Food52 site and get some other ideas from people who really know how to cook.When I was little we would go for walks along a private drive that is now covered with many houses. I doubt if our bushes are still there. There was a red raspberry bush and a black raspberry bush. We learned to pick the sun-warmed berries without getting scratched by the rasping thorns or fearing the many bees. It was always hot, and the sweet berries...
Fine Art Daily, March 10, 2011
Posted: March 10, 2011 04:38 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersMarch 10, 2011Miss Morning Glory certainly knows how to brighten the corner where she is. She wandered through her garden just before the Chinese New Year party the other afternoon, picking pink hibiscus, a salmon bougainvillea and a few tiny Golden Rain blossoms and managed to artfully mass them into a spectacular and towering grouping. I caught her part way through the arranging - imagine this with another 5 pink hibiscus dancing on slim sticks of bamboo, and that's what she created. Poof! Of course, she is so prepared for any floral situation that she even had some green florists...
Fine Art Daily, March 9, 2011
Posted: March 09, 2011 04:36 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersMarch 9, 2011.Today is Vita Sackville-West's birthday. One of these days I will get to Sissinghurst, to see her white garden. In the meantime I am luxuriating in the beauteousness that Miss Morning Glory has created across the road from us. Every corner has a story, every flower has a well-scrubbed face, every thing is loved. (Well, except for the damn moles and the possums, but those belong in another story.)
Fine Art Daily, March 8, 2011
Posted: March 08, 2011 04:52 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersMarch 8, 2011More Chinese New Year. There are a few moments just before the sun goes down, when the rays of light are long and lush and golden, and time slows - just for a moment. The dust motes blur and soften the sharp edges, the garden is lovely, and so are your companions. As the dusk gathers nothing is quite as beautiful as the lamp light.
Fine Art Daily, March 7, 2011
Posted: March 07, 2011 04:44 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersMarch 7, 2011We were a little out of step with the rest of the world in celebrating the Chinese New Year, but that is the way we prefer to be. It was a glorious afternoon of slanted gauzy rays of sunshine, and a cool evening with the glowing lanterns strung red and gold above the lawn. Even the cool sprinkle of rain did little to dampen the enthusiasm of the children as they ran fearlessly in the dark. The Year of the Rabbit was well celebrated.
July Sporting Sale on the Horizon
Posted: March 02, 2011 12:32 Last Updated: | Stephen B. O'Brien Jr.The last year at Copley has brought some tremendous auction results. Coming off of last summer's Sporting Sale, "Paintings were the high scorers," as noted by Boston Globe correspondent Virginia Bohlin, with exceptional results and world records set for wildlife and sporting works. Copley's inaugural Winter Sale in New York this January was what Decoy Magazine's Joe Engers "enthusiastically call[ed] a 'win-win' sale" for decoys, providing a "needed jolt of optimism" in the decoy market. Our results showed there is a very active market for the best quality items, with many new buyers partici...
Fine Art Daily, March 1, 2011
Posted: March 01, 2011 05:11 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersMarch 1, 2011Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. I just love that this is the Year of the Rabbit!Miss Morning Glory and I went out for a larcenous stroll the other night. We passed the new stick-like trees planted in the small orange grove at Bay Tree Lodge, throwing our heads back to enjoy the scent of the orange blossoms at their aromatic peak. I remember for the first couple of years we lived here that I thought it was the honeysuckle giving out the sweet, pungent aroma. I was wrong about that in a rather spectacular way - because not only was the scent from the oranges blossoms, the other b...
ABSOLUTE ABSTRACTION
Posted: February 28, 2011 07:59 Last Updated: | Susan TellerAmerican Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper, 1942-1972. Absolute Abstraction is on view through March 12. Works in this extensive, wide-ranging show date from Josef Albers’ classic lithograph, Prefatio, 1942, to James Daugherty’s pastel, Synchromist Compostion, 1972. Also included are cubist works by Fannie Hillsmith, painterly expressionist pieces by Hugh Mesibov, op art by Bernard Rosenquit, Indian Space by Howard Daum, and those by Fred Becker and Hans Burkhardt that touch on the surreal. A strong selection of Atelier 17 students and teachers includes Minna Citron, Worden Day (with...
Fine Art Daily, February 28, 2011
Posted: February 28, 2011 05:22 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersHere is your calendar for March. Please email me if you would like a high rez PDF.
Fine Art Daily, February 25, 2011
Posted: February 25, 2011 06:11 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersFebruary 25, 2011It's Food Friday!This is one of our reliable crowd pleasers, the recipe for which we no longer have to scour through the cookbooks - Bruschetta. We have to step out tonight and thought this would be a tasty little contribution to the mix. Camilla is desperate to get out and socialize. (She still hasn't gotten over Kat...e's pony tail in public yesterday.) And Champagne Charlie is always ready for a party!This is very tricky-woo - so pay attention.Cut a day old baguette into slicesToast the slices under the broilerAllow slices to coolRub each slice with a chunk o'garlic...
Fine Art Daily, February 24, 2011
Posted: February 24, 2011 05:36 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersFebruary 24, 2011The nasturtiums are taking over the world. Our back porch has disappeared. There are 8 pots with blooming nasturtiums right now, and 2 of them must be embracing the notion of manifest destiny (although they are headed east, maybe back to the mothership). One pot has tendrils that are at least 6 feet long. If we wake up as pod people one morning, please check the nasturtiums for trace evidence of our mortal remains because they do seem otherworldly and vaguely sinister. Don't be beguiled by those cheerful blossoms and coin-like leaves. They are on the move.
Fine Art Daily, February 23, 2011
Posted: February 23, 2011 05:26 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersFebruary 23, 2011Here are a few of tomatoes from the modest container farm we are operating this winter. Unfortunately there are not very many spherical objets in my compendium of office supply metaphors, so I must rely on sporting goods. So far these tomatoes are slightly larger than ping pong balls, yet smaller than lacrosse balls. There are about 4 clusters which should be ripening soon, and if the Tall One and the Pouting Princess come home next weekend they might be able to help with the harvest. With some of the basil hunted and gathered from the container on the front porch ...
Fine Art Daily, February 22, 2011
Posted: February 22, 2011 05:54 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersFebruary 22, 2011Happy George Washington's birthday!As our friends in the gelid North shovel out yet again I offer a small sign of hope. We have a wee, tiny container garden on the back porch. So far the harvest has yielded 2 dozen protractor pencil-sized green beans, 1 golf ball-sized tomato and soon about half a dozen pencil eraser-sized strawberries. (I tend to measure things almost exclusively in terms of office supplies - perhaps I do not get out enough...)The strawberries are such a deep, translucent red that my Dr. P.H. Martin's Radiant Watercolors do not do them justice. I h...
Fine Art Daily, February 21, 2011
Posted: February 21, 2011 05:53 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersFebruary 21, 2011Happy Presidents' Day!It is only another month before Spring, so I thought a little floral tribute was in order. It seemed like a good thing, if you have to go to your cubicle today. If you are off, then I hope you are sleeping late. And that the cardinals did not wake you up this morning like the rude boys here did an hour ago. Spring, it is like this little flower shop, just around the corner...
Fine Art Daily, February 11, 2011
Posted: February 11, 2011 05:18 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersMid-winter Chili 1½ pounds ground beef 1 tablespoon olive oil1 medium onion, chopped1 medium green pepper, chopped1 clove garlic1 36-ounce can crushed tomatoes3 tablespoons chili powder1 clove garlic1 tablespoon paprika1 to 2 or 3 teaspoons of cayenne – depending on your thrill factorSalt and pepper to tasteGrated sharp cheddar cheese for toppingBrown meat in a large pot. Drain and set aside. Sauté onions, peppers and garlic in olive oil in the same pot. Return meat to pot. Add tomato sauce, chili powder, paprika and cayenne. Cook on medium heat for approximately 1½ hours. Now thi...
Fine Art Daily, February 10, 2011
Posted: February 10, 2011 06:38 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersHow could we be a week into the Year of the Rabbit without a rabbit celebration? The good folks at Pinder's know the value of a good rabbit, or two. Actually we saw several excellent displays of bunny artistry at Pinder's, which should drive a good rabbit lover out to Palm City to consider his or her own pitiful lobilias, and rectify the situation immediately. Have you looked at your petunias lately?
Fine Art Daily, February 9, 2011
Posted: February 09, 2011 05:25 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersFebruary 9, 2011Still at Pinder's. Here is another icon of good luck to hang up in your cubbie today: Buddha's hand. It is rising from a field of flowers, looking much less dire than Ozymandias, or even the colossal toe-challenged foot from LOST. Everything is going to be OK. Breathe.OzymandiasI met a traveller from an antique landWho said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive, stamped on ...
Fine Art Daily, February 8, 2011
Posted: February 08, 2011 04:59 Last Updated: | Jean Dixon SandersFebruary 8, 2011We found lots to admire and inspire at Pindar's the other day. Sometimes sights were just worthy of big grins. Mostly I just like the bacon aspect of pigs, but this little pig wallowing in a container of yellow petunias was pretty amusing. I hope it gets you over the indignity of getting up for a Tuesday; a day usually fraught with sales meetings and leftovers for dinner. At least there is the prospect of a new NCIS tonight! Go forth and wriggle in the petunias! http://www.pindersnursery.com/
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