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  • Blessed

    Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831 by John Constable, Tate Britain. This version of the cathedral is the most “romantic” with the horse and cart in the foreground and the rainbow in the background,…

  • Glass Jewels

    Stained Glass Panel in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Style at Arizona Biltmore, Phoenix. Frank Lloyd Wright always liked to create an entire environment in his buildings and homes. He designed furniture, rugs, light fixtures, stained…

  • Breaking Ground by Making Art

    Gateway, Tangier by Henry Ossawa Tanner, c. 1912, The St. Louis Art Museum. Tanner studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which was highly unusual for an African American at this time.…

  • Bringing Real Scenes to Life Through Art

    Jesus Loves Me by Varnette Honeywood, 1983 A good friend first introduced me to the art of Varnette Honeywood about the time this work was made. I have always been fond of the way…

  • RIP Christo: If you Could Dream it, You Could Do it.

    Christo and Jeanne-Claude “Lower Manhattan Packed Buildings” (Project) (2 Broadway and 20 Exchange Place) Collage 1964-66. This proposal for a project in Lower Manhattan was rejected but Christo and Jeanne-Claude did get a NYC…

  • Max’s Journey

    Group, ©1963 by Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak Archives, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia One of the most popular books of my generation has proven to be among the most…

  • Rose Bowl

    White and Pink Roses by Henri Fantin-Latour, Private Collection. A friend of the Impressionists Manet and Bazille, in his early career Fantin-Latour was part of the traditional academic salon. He loosened his brush strokes…

  • City on the Lake

    Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (aka Chicago World’s Fair) Designed by a panel led by architect Danial Burnham and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition made Chicago the leading…

  • Pink Flamingos

    Flamingoes by Sydney Long, c. 1905-06, The National Gallery of Australia Long’s work was often controversial because of the subject matter he chose to portray in his languid art nouveau style. He was fond…