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...

This is Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, probably his most famous painting. Look at it for about 5 minutes and try to come up with three words...

The Ancient Egyptians left behind a lot of amazing stuff but the bust of Queen Nefertiti has to be one of the best. Her sculptor was...

The Raft of the Medusa (1819) by Theodore Gericault usually makes one of those “must see at the Louvre” lists you find online. I don't...

I know just enough about the Olmec people to know I’d be interested to know more. I’m in good company, though. Apparently they are still...

The Birth of Venus is probably Sandro Botticelli’s most famous painting and I imagine most of you would recognize it on sight. If I’m...

About 14 years after he painted The Gross Clinic, Thomas Eakins was commissioned to paint The Agnew Clinic. The chief surgeon and...

There are two pieces by American painter Thomas Eakins that I really like for their medical subject matter. So this week you’re looking...

I imagine most people know Grant Wood’s American Gothic (1930). Sometimes I wonder whether people like it because they think they’re...

Cambodia may or may not be on your must-travel radar but maybe it should be. In the US it probably only rings a bell from its association...

Yesterday was the 12th day of Christmas. January 6th is Epiphany and it commemorates the Magi’s visit to the Holy Family. Thankfully for...

I think we started these art posts back in March. So we’re coming up on a whole year and we haven’t once mentioned the frescoes of the...