Still Life

Garden of Love: American Still Life Painting, 1880-1930 is now on view at Catherine Dail Fine Art through the end of May. This sumptuous Spring exhibition of American still life and garden painting was curated with inspiration from the poetry of William Blake and the new music of Martha Redbone.  Garden of Love is the title of one of Blake's Songs of Experience - in which he wrote, illustrated and included the stanza: "I went to the Garden of Love/And saw what I never had seen/A Chapel ...

WASHINGTON, DC—The National Gallery of Art has acquired one of fewer than a dozen known still lifes painted in the late 1840s by African American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872). Classically composed, Still Life with Fruit and Nuts (1848) depicts fruit arranged in a tabletop pyramid in which the smooth surfaces of beautifully rendered fruit contrast with textured nutshells. The acquisition was made possible with funds from Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation and the ...

Yoshi Mizutani offering Portrait, Landscape and Still Life commissions exclusively through Walker-Cunningham Fine Art, Boston.  A selection of completed commission work is on view now for a limited time through December 3, 2011.  http://www.walkercunningham.com.   About the Artist YOSHI MIZUTANI (b. 1969) Yoshi Mizutani was born in 1969 in Japan and introduced to art at a very young age by his grandmother who is a traditional Japanese Sumi ink painter. He ...

studio21south189 Beaver St. Route 8, North Adams, MA413-652-4815  studio21south@gmail.comFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / WEEK OF JULY 11, 2011 "OH, CRAP!" at studio21south July 16-August 21, 2011 Opening Saturday, July 16, 3-7pm NORTH ADAMS--studio21south in North Adams presents "OH CRAP!", an exhibit of art about things forgotten, discarded, and left behind. "Oh, Crap!" includes drawings and pastels by gallery artist Bob Lafond of an abandoned small-craft airport in New Jersey, and also ...

After almost a century in a single private collection, Ernest Lawson's "Central Park" has re-emerged.  The painting, executed circa 1910, went from Lawson by way of Mac Beth Galleries directly to a private collection in the midwest. Representing the artist's best signature work, "Central Park" has not been exhibited or widely known until now, four generations later. A member of the often gritty Ashcan School, Lawson visited urban subjects, but through his own lens of Impressionism. ...