Art Reflection – Dixon Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) was a painter of the American West. After training at the San Francisco Art Institute he spent his years travelling and chronicling the beauty of this area. He was an Impressionist painting outside with studies of light and shadow. He is quoted as saying, “The spirit of the west sings in every soul.”  …

Art Reflection – Miro Joan Miro (1893-1983) was born in Barcelona, Spain. He painted in the Surrealism style often with very little representation. He is known for very abstracted minimalist works in a few bright colors. Padres is an exception. Here Miro does represent a village, the sky and surrounding fields. The background of this piece is quite realistic and then there …

Art Reflection – Orozco Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) was one of the most famous Mexican muralists of his day. He painted in the Expressionism style with fellow artists Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros to document events of Mexican history. This work depicts the followers of slain revolutionary peasant, Emiliano Zapata, being led to their death. All elements of this …

Art Reflection – Calderon Woman with Red Shawl is a lithograph by Mexican artist Celia Calderon (1921-1969). This artist was a master engraver as revealed in the fine detail of this print. She believed art could be a vehicle for important and necessary reflection and change as did many other artists of her time and country. She was a member of …

Art Reflection – Van Gogh This piece was recently predicted to bring $7,000,000 – $10,000,000 at auction. It is a small section of a much larger landscape. Van Gogh abandoned all but this 13 inch fragment. Done in his impasto style with a remarkable color palette and possibly including himself as the figure with the straw hat, Van Gogh seems …

Art Reflection – Caillebotte French Impressionist, Gustave Caillebotte, offered this gift of perspective in 1876. With the eye of an artist, he takes a rather ordinary scene, crops it and with a complex application of one-point perspective and neutral colors, gives us a masterpiece. As an Impressionist he painted en plen air and filled this work with bright sunlight and tinted shadows. …

Art Reflection – Hagen Kelly Simpson Hagen, a current American artist, seems to have captured diversity and the gospel in simplified figures and bold colors here. I love the implications of both. Can you find yourself in this abstracted and lovely mass of humanity? Where would you like to link arms and stand in triumphant oneness facing whatever is next?  …

Art Reflection – Troye Edward Troye (1808-1874) was a Swiss American artist. As many artists before him, he made his living from portrait commissions.  In Troye’s case however the commissions were for portraits of thoroughbred racehorses paid for by their owners. And in many cases like this one the portraits included the African American jockeys, handlers, trainers, the black horsemen …

Art Reflection – Krasner Lee Krasner (1908-1984) was a prominent member of the nonrepresentational art movement that transformed New York City into a major center of contemporary art after World War II. Her abstract works grace museums around the world. Unfortunately, she is not familiar to many as Lee Krasner but as Jackson Pollack’s wife. Living under his reputation is …

Art Reflection – Schubert Erno Schubert (1903-1960) was a Hungarian painter of still lifes. His abstract compositions and his use of color are notable aspects of his work. His palettes hold much variety and a light-infused quality. He makes an ordinary scene look anything but ordinary. Still Life with Philodendron appears to have been painted much later than 1960. It brings …