Your Daily Art

  • People Are So Clever

    An article in the Washington Post covers people recreating famous works of art with all different types of things while in quarantine. It will lighten your mood and remind you how clever people are. #gettychallange

    Article from the Bedford Citizen
    Article from the Bedford Citizen

  • For Bertha

    Under the Horse Chestnut Tree by Mary Cassatt, 1895, Moma
    Under the Horse Chestnut Tree by Mary Cassatt, 1895, Moma

    American Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt is well known for her paintings of women and children. Although she never had children herself, she captures the intimate moments between the mothers and children that were her family and friends, with care and feeling.

  • From Brass to Bronze

    Black Totem, 2005 -2009 by Herb Alpert
    Black Totem, 2005 -2009 by Herb Alpert

    Musician Herb Alpert’s bronze totem sculptures are inspired by the wooden totems of the NW

    Tlingit

    tribe. He is also a painter – that is a lot of talent for one person.

    Yes, it is this

    Herb Alpert

    .

  • Smarty

    AK 47 Kalashnikov, multicolor original gun with applied Smarties by Kata Legrady from her Guns and Candies series.
    AK 47 Kalashnikov, multicolor original gun with applied Smarties by Kata Legrady from her Guns and Candies series.

    Kata Legrady began a series of artworks in 2008 where she applied candies like Smarties to different weapons. She thought the candies evoked the Ben-Day technique used by Roy Lichtenstein in his comic book referencing art and by “covering” and in a sense hiding the firearm or other weapon, it loses its ferocity and power.

  • Collect It Because You Love It

    Dorothy and Herbert Voge

    were art collectors. They amassed a collection of over 5,000 pieces of contemporary art from a collection begun in the mid-twentieth century. They did on modest salaries from his job as a postal worker and her as a librarian. Their choices were well-considered and educated, but mostly what they liked, and were drawn to. 

  • Abstracted Jazz

    Stuart Davis, The Mellow Pad, 1945-51
    Stuart Davis, The Mellow Pad, 1945-51

    Stuart Davis believed that abstract painting could impart more of the meaning of the work than a straight figurative interpretation. This work is about American jazz and giving a viewer a sense of the relaxed “coolness” inherent in its form. The name “Mellow Pad” refers to slag used by the musicians for a low-key place to hang out.

  • Color Woodcuts

    Mabel A. Hewit, Dunes from Race Point, Cape Cod , c. 1930
    Mabel A. Hewit, Dunes from Race Point, Cape Cod , c. 1930

    Mabel A. Hewit

    Cleveland area artist Mabel Hewitt was a very accomplished print maker. Her work was colorful and drew on subjects of everyday life.

  • Common Interests

    James Roy Hopkins, Mandarin Blue , 1917
    James Roy Hopkins, Mandarin Blue , 1917

    James Roy Hopkins was the head of the Fine Art Department at Ohio State from 1923 – 1948. His wife Edna Boies Hopkins was a print maker. .

    Edna Boies Hopkins , Datura , 1910
    Edna Boies Hopkins , Datura , 1910

  • Familiar

    Alex Colville , Winter Sun, 2005
    Alex Colville , Winter Sun, 2005

    Canadian artist Alex Colville painted in highly detailed images in the pointillist style – unusual because of the slow exacting methods it requires – yet his subjects are so “usual” that his methods of achieving his look make you forget that they must have been created by a very meticulous and precise hand.

  • Veiled Thoughts

    Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, 3rd–2nd century B.C. Greek
    Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, 3rd–2nd century B.C. Greek

    Greek Hellenistic Period

    , 3rd – 2nd century BCE, The Metropolitan Museum, New York.

    This small statuette is a remarkable representation of a dancer caught in the midst of a complicated move. It is expressive and mysterious at the same time.