Artists I Love
Artists I Love – Figures from the LACMA Permanent Collection
Artists I Love - Figures from the LACMA Permanent Collection When we vacationed in LA in the summer of 2024 I knew I wanted to see the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). It was one of my favorite museums when I was growing up in LA and when I lived there again...
Artists I Love – The Impressionists
The Impressionist Revolution - From Monet to Matisse Selections from the Dallas Museum of Art Special Exhibitions Not an Apple A few weeks ago a friend of mine who was trying to make a political statement online showed an apple with accompanying text saying "This is a...
Authors I Love – George Eliot
I am starting a new series, 'Authors I Love', a companion to my ongoing series 'Artists I Love'. OLD AND NEW I love reading big old books. The longer and older the better. Why? For one reason, it allows me to travel. I was explaining this idea to my wife today after I...
Artists I Love – Selections from the National Portrait Gallery
This summer I went to visit my daughter Rebekah and her family in Virginia. I was particularly excited to spend time with my 10 year old granddaughter, Vivian. The first day we went museum hopping in Washington, DC. We spent time seeing selections from the National...
Artists I Love – Art from the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Amon Carter Museum of American Art I recently ran the Cowtown Half Marathon in Fort Worth, Texas and took the opportunity while there to visit one of my favorite museums, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. I've been a number of times before while visiting my...
Artists I love – Stuart Davis
INTRODUCTION I was raised in a family with art on the walls and art history all around me. I studied art and art history all through undergraduate and graduate school. As a result there are many artists whom I have known about and seen their work over many decades....
Artists I Love – Neil Jenney
Neil Jenney From 1982-1994 I worked on getting my Master of Fine Art degree from San Jose State University in California. I took a number of high level art theory and criticism seminars where studied intensely studied the recently past and current styles in the art...
Artists I Love – Ed Ruscha
"Good art should illicit a response of 'huh? Wow!' not 'Wow! Huh?'" - Ed Ruscha Denver Whenever I travel I like to check in advance to see if there are any cool museums I should hit. I often am wanting to see the architecture as much as the art. In 2009 I hit the...
Artists I Love – Robert Arneson
Moscone When I graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1978 I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Within 3 months of my arrival the Mayor of San Francisco, George Moscone, and City Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White. Three years later...
Artists I Love – Elliot Erwitt – Photographic Sunday
Serious Photography People tend to put professional photography into a very serious box. It's used to show the worst of humanity and nature, a very serious thing. It is also used to show the highlights of both, which ironically is usually just as serious....
Artists I Love – Mary Cassatt
In spite of their popularity during my lifetime, I've never been a huge fan of many of the Impressionists. But there are a few that I have loved from the first time I saw their work; Degas, Manet, Caillebotte. Ranking in that top group is the only American and only...
Artists I Love – Alexander Archipenko
The Hidden Gems There is a museum here in Tulsa, a gem relatively unknown outside of Oklahoma and the art world. Philbrook Museum of Art was originally an Italian inspired mansion built in 1927 by Waite Phillips of Phillips 66 lineage. He and his wife gave the...
Artists I Love – Francisco Goya
I am going back in time again. This time to Spain of the 18th and 19th Century. Francisco Goya was a master painter and printmaker whose work ranged from sophisticated royal portraits to illicit nudes to disturbing depictions of war and violence. Pretty...
Artists I Love – Robert Irwin – Winter Weekend Series
Transfixed I first came across Robert Irwin while I was visiting Minneapolis for an art conference when I was in my 20s. I took some time off and went to the Walker Art Center, one of the best museums in North America that I had heard about for many years. This is...
Artists I Love – Veruschka – Winter Weekend Series
When I was a young boy, around 13 years old, I would sneak a look at my father's Playboy Magazines. I was no different than any other boy when it came to what excited me. Then again I was different. The famous 60s supermodel, Veruschka, showed me that with...
Artists I Love – Albrecht Durer – The Winter Weekend Series
I first got to know the work of Albrecht Durer, who was a Northern Renaissance artist, when I took an advanced seminar course on printmaking at the Boston Museum of Fine Art while I was attending Brandeis University. I found his work harder to understand than...
Artists I Love – Roger Brown – Winter Weekend Series
Hey Everyone, it's wintertime again and that means I am going to restart my 'Artist's I Love' Series. I will do an artist each weekend or so for a while. Let me know if you have a favorite artist, it might jog my memory and I'll want to include them too! If...
Artists I Love – Coco Larrain – Breast Week #4
Coco Are you wondering why I am combining two series, 'Artists I Love' and the current 'Breast Week'? Coco is the reason. She was the inspiration for Breast Week because she just recently had a mastectomy as a result of her second bout with breast cancer. Her first...
Artists I Love – Nina Levy, Napkin Mom and More
Hello Napkin Kin! This is an unexpected addition to my 'Artists I Love' series. I want to introduce you to a very special woman. Nina Levy contacted me a few months ago to express her appreciation for The Napkin Dad Daily blog. She explained that she also...
Artists I Love – Andy Goldsworthy – Winter Weekend Series
We are getting into contemporary artists now and we also are moving away from painting and drawing. Here is one of the artists that most inspire me and keep me looking for joy and wonder in the world, Andy Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy is a British artist who works...
Artists I Love – Wayne Thiebaud – Winter Weekend series
I skipped last week because I was on the road visiting our daughter at Baylor in Texas. This week we resume with another great California painter, Wayne Theibaud. You probably know Thiebaud's work as a west coast variant of Pop art. And indeed,...
Artists I Love – Richard Diebenkorn – Winter Weekend Series
Diebenkorn I fell in love with Diebenkorn's work very early on, when I was still an undergraduate. His work has kept with me and influenced me for many decades, for the color, the depth of layering (that you can only really see in its complexity when you see them in...
Artists I Love – Roy Lichtenstein – Winter Weekend series
I am showing an artist today who I deeply admire. Roy Lichtenstein, one of the preeminent pop artists in America, has a very graphic and bold style, accessing popular and art culture for many of his ideas and references. He got his start using...
Artists I Love – Thomas Hart Benton – Winter Weekend Series
Week #4 in my Winter Weekend series on artist's I love - This week it's Thomas Hart Benton, 1889-1975. Benton started out in Missouri as the son of a US Senator. As a result he was well-educated, world-wise and somewhat wealthy. He spent time in...