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By William Corwin Senza titolo/Untitled, 1972, tempera and burnt paper on paper mounted on panel, 26 x 42 cm.(MARIO BASSIATO COLLECTION, TREVISO.; PRIVATE COLLECTION, COURTESY ALESSANDRO ROSA.) Much to the [...]

BY JAMES D. BALESTRIERI Calling on Wakan Tanka, 1962. Casein on paper, 24 ¾ x 33 ⅝ in.(UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA, PC OH 4 (O.H.76.024) © OSCAR [...]

The article discusses the works of several painters. John Rappleye used the symbol of the Tree of life in his paintings. For her landscapes, former textile designer Laura Breitman uses tiny bits of fabric or paper to function as brush strokes. English artist Justin Mortimer adds incomplete figures to his landscapes. San Francisco, California-based artist Diane Andrews Hall paints real-looking songbirds and seascapes.

The artist Marsden Hartley's take on the magnificent, and, for him, arguably intimidating, southern Rocky Mountains was often more bleak than other modernist painters who explored in paint the huge skies, unforgiving deserts and imposing mountains of the Southwest. But the painter's sentiments, both verbal and visual, are no less profound than those of other artists who, like John Marin, visited the area for brief periods to tackle its landscape on paper or canvas. Or who, like the artists Georgia O'Keeffe, abandoned the hustle and bustle of urban art centers such as New York to roam among the high-desert mountains.

By Lilly Wei Esteban Vicente (1903-2001), Untitled, 1996. Pastel and charcoal on paper, 27 x 22 in. (© 2022 THE HARRIET AND ESTEBAN VICENTE FOUNDATION.) “The Light in the Garden” [...]

LEWALLEN Galleries of Santa Fe, N.M., presents “Dan Christensen: A Painter’s Painter,” featuring the artist’s signature color abstractions. Running through June 4, the show will include works on paper and [...]

The article presents questions and answers related to art. One author wants to know the value of a oil painting, 18 inches by 25 inches and is dated 1954 and on the reverse of the painting is a hand made paper label that reads "But Mochtar (Bandung) 17 Gadis/Girl." The expert replied that born in 1930, Apin Mochtar is in fact an Indonesian painter and sculptor belonging to the "Bandung School" of artists from 1950's. Another reader wanted information on a 33 year old painting, signed Maurice Utrillo. Painting expert, Kenneth Beech replied that it is extremely difficult to establish the authenticity of a painting supposedly done by a famous artist from photographs. Since the signature could be a forgery.

The article focuses on the materials used by various painters for making a painting. The conservation of an artwork depends not only on its handling but also on the material used to make it. Albert Pinkham Ryder, an American artist used to use such unorthodox materials as sand, sugar, tobacco juice and urine into his paintings. German painter Anselm Kiefer uses straw or dried flowers in his paintings. Some painters even use butterfly wings in their paintings.

This article presents an analysis of painter Christopher Winter Pugliese's work. He has a firm grip on his brush, which extends far enough to pull the canvas closer. That slash of brush says that this painter made the thing he studies and he alone will decide what happens next. If Pugliese's father hadn't given him that brush, he'd stand there frozen. Man and canvas would be more or less the same two upright vertical objects. Though almost entirely shaded, the painter's body lakes solidity from the light that enters from the left.

By Lilly Wei Sunset in Maine with Yellow Frame, 2023, oil on canvas, 48 x 42 1/4 in.(© ESTATE OF KATHERINE PORTER, ALL IMAGES COURTESY OF LEWALLEN GALLERIES) Katherine Porter [...]

By William Corwin Summer Meadow #758, circa 1955, oil on canvas, 44 x 52 in.(PRIVATE COLLECTION, CALIFORNIA. COURTESY OF THE ESTATE OF NORMAN CARTON AND HOLLIS TAGGART, NEW YORK.) At [...]

By William Corwin The Tree of Life, 2002, oil on canvas, 63.8 x 52 in. Gilot’s line is the first thing you notice, her tool for expressing an image. In [...]

BY REBECCA ALLAN Sonia Delaunay, manufactured by Manufacture de Beauvais, Rythmes couleurs ou Panneau F 1898, 1975 (designed 1973), wool tapestry.(MOBILIER NATIONAL, PARIS, BV-270-000. PHOTOGRAPH: ISABELLE BIDEAU. © PRACUSA.) IN [...]

BY REBECCA ALLAN William Robinson Leigh, Zuni Pottery Maker, 1907, oil on canvas.(COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, THE LUNDER COLLECTION, 2013.188.) THE NOTION of an unchanging perspective on life, history, [...]

BY DIAN PARKER Rally, 1994, acrylic on canvas.(COURTESY OF THE ESTATE OF DENYSE THOMASOS AND OLGA KORPER GALLERY © THE ESTATE OF DENYSE THOMASOS AND OLGA KORPER GALLERY. PHOTO: ANDRE [...]

PAINTER DAVID Ligare’s series of still lifes, Drapery Paintings: 1978-2023, will be on view at Winfield Gallery in Carmel-by-the-Sea through July 8. Ligare’s inspiration for these pieces dates back to [...]

BY WILLIAM CORWIN Miriam Schapiro, Idyll II, 1956, oil on canvas, 152.4 x 182.88 cm.(COURTESY THE LEVETT COLLECTION © ESTATE OF MIRIAM SCHAPIRO / ARS, NY AND DACS, LONDON 2022.) [...]

BY DAWNYA BARTSCH Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), Woman Sweeping at 346 rue Saint-Honoré, 1895. Oil on board, 33 x 50.8 cm. JOSEPH AND Nancy Keithley’s journey into the world of fine [...]

By Rebecca Allan Acrylic No. 1, 1995. Acrylic on canvas, 32 x 22 in.(COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST.. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT LORENZSON AND MAYER SASSON AND COLOR CORRECTION BY WHITNEY BROWNE.) [...]

By Barbara A. MacAdam Patrick Henry Bruce (1881-1936), Painting, ca. 1921-2. Oil on canvas, 35 x 45 3⁄4 in.(WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK. GIFT OF AN ANONYMOUS DONOR [...]

(© LEON POLK SMITH FOUNDATION, L2021.43.7. PHOTOGRAPH BY SITE PHOTOGRAPHY.;) INNOVATIVE PAINTER Leon Polk Smith’s contributions to 20th-century art are being increasingly recognized. Smith was born to half-Cherokee parents and [...]

WORDS FUNCTION both as units of language and as visual elements in painter Joan Giordano’s exhibition “Painting the Printed Word” at the June Kelly Gallery in New York (through February [...]