Will Barnet (1911-2012) Early Morning 1972
In the very beginning Thomas Kinkade Photonning of his artistic career, Thomas Kinkade put his entire life savings into the printing of his first lithograph. Though at the time he was already an acclaimed illustrator, Thom found that he was inspired not by fame and fortune, but by the simple act of painting straight from the heart, putting on canvas the natural wonders and images that moved him most. It was this dedication and singular-minded focus on the ultimate goal of Sharing the Light™ that ...
Telemaco Signorini (1835 - 1901) Novembre 1870
Look at Vincent van Gogh's Olive Trees closely enough, and you'll find the subtle intricacies of his play with color, his brush strokes, perhaps even his precise layers of paint atop the canvas. You'll also find a grasshopper. Well, parts of one, anyway. Vincent van Gogh's ...
Phillips Collection curator Eliza Rathbone says Renoir was "at the height of his powers" when in he painted Luncheon of the Boating Party. In 1880, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, age 41, wrote to a friend that he was in a riverside town near Paris painting oarsmen. He'd been "itching" ...