DAYTON, OH.- Winslow Homer is best known as a great American painter, but he was also a prolific and expert wood engraver. Most of Homer’s engravings were published in Harper’s Weekly where Homer worked as a freelance illustrator between 1857 and …
Emails Rebuke Maine Governor for Labor Mural Removal
By: David Sharp, Associated Press
Glenn Adams, Associated Press
AUGUSTA, ME (AP).- Gov. Paul LePage’s decision to remove a mural depicting the history of the labor movement in Maine struck a raw nerve as critics lashed out in correspondence that p…
Museum Huis Marseille Presents Adam Fuss: A Survey of His Work: 1986 through 2010
AMSTERDAM.- What immediately stands out with the work of Adam Fuss is that, both in terms of the chosen subject matter and in his approach to the photographic technique, he has greatly dissociated himself from conventional photography. That which Fuss …
Bonhams to Sell Work by US President’s Friend Who Survived Attacks by Leopards & Elephants
LONDON.- A stunning bronze sculpture of three elephants titled `The Wounded Comrade’ by the American artist, Carl E. Akeley (1864-1926), will be sold at Bonhams Sporting Gun Sale in Knightsbridge on July 27. The powerful bronze which stands a foot…
Faggionato Fine Art Presents ‘Lingua Franca’, Exhibition of New Works by Tarka Kings
LONDON.- Faggionato Fine Art presents Lingua Franca, an exhibition of new works by Tarka Kings. The show marks a new direction in Kings’ practice, comprising a series of highly-worked large-scale drawings that begin with a single scene or image an…
Faggionato Fine Art Presents ‘Lingua Franca’, Exhibition of New Works by Tarka Kings
LONDON.- Faggionato Fine Art presents Lingua Franca, an exhibition of new works by Tarka Kings. The show marks a new direction in Kings’ practice, comprising a series of highly-worked large-scale drawings that begin with a single scene or image an…
Artexpo New York Offers Affordable Quality Art
NEW YORK (AP).- Hans Magden’s paintings are vibrant and raw, deep expressions of emotion from an artist afflicted with a disabling disease. Safori is a sought-after, self-taught artist who once was hailed as Ghana’s national pole-vault champion. They a…
Exhibition at Fundació Suñol of 27 Works, Dating from 1924-1998, Reflect the Visions of 18 Artists
BARCELONA.- The Fundació Suñol has put together an exhibition of 27 pieces from the Josep Suñol Collection to help expand visitors’ knowledge of 20th-century art. It comprises work by 18 artists who played a key role in the field of visual arts…
Acclaimed American Artist Bill Viola’s The Quintet of the Unseen at BlainSouthern
LONDON.- Blain|Southern presents The Quintet of the Unseen, a large-scale video work by the acclaimed American artist Bill Viola. On view from 9 February through 26 March 2011. Imitating the composition of a Renaissance painting, five actors stand clos…
The Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation Acquires Three Works by Francesco Clemente
MUNICH.- Francesco Clemente’s works “Sound and Shadow, I–III”, the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Foundation’s most recent acquisitions, were painted in 2002 in New Mexico and depict a desert landscape in vastly changing moods –…