I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about a snow scene before. I feel bad for January sometimes; after the magic of Christmas and all the...

I’ve finally gotten around to Madame X. John Singer Sargent met Virginie Gautreau in Paris some time in 1882. He was trying to launch his...

There are so many Norman Rockwell paintings on a Christmas theme that choosing one was almost the death of me. Somehow I managed, though,...

Jan Van Eyck painted this version of The Annunciation some time in the mid to late 1430s. It's housed at the National Gallery in...

I'll admit that my appreciation for murals is hit and miss, and very often on the miss side. That's likely why we haven't posted about...

John Singleton Copley painted three versions of his Watson and the Shark (1778), this is the second one. The ‘Watson’ in the title is a...

TR there doesn't stand for Teddy Roosevelt. It stands for Tilman Riemenschneider, the sculptor who created the Holy Blood Altarpiece...

The Covid pandemic shut us down for almost all of 2020 but we're glad to starting hosting art exhibits again this year! Our March exhibit...

Unfinished artwork can sometimes be more fascinating than completed pieces. Leonardo da Vinci was notorious for not finishing commissions...