Art Reflection – Asawa Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) was an American artist of the Modernist Movement. Ruth is best known for her hanging, wire sculptures but currently an exhibit of her drawing, painting, and paper folding entitled Through Lines is at the Whitney Museum in New York City. Bentwood Rocker is part of this exhibit and is emblematic of her patient, persistent relationship with art. …

Art Reflection – Schiele Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was an Austrian artist and protégé of Gustav Klimt. He painted landscapes and portraits in the Modern Art Movement during his short life. He died of the Spanish Flu at age 28. This piece is part of the Belvedere Collection in Vienna, Austria. Schiele’s Four Trees is interesting in both technique and metaphor. Here we …

Art Reflection – Riviere This delicate, color lithograph is the work of French artist, Henri Riviere. He lived from 1864-1951 as a painter and printmaker. He focused on the scenes of life and nature around him and created as a post-impressionist. This composition is filled with interest. His perspective of two lines of trees sets the structure of the piece. …

Art Reflection – Manet Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was a French Modernist. He painted the modern life of Paris and was of major significance in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Manet was born into a wealthy, prominent family and became a painter at the encouragement of his uncle and to the distress of his father who envisioned a career in …

Art Reflection – Taylor Henry Taylor was born in 1958 in Ventura, California. He was introduced to painting by his father, also a painter, and attended the California Institute of Art, receiving his BFA in 1995. That Was Then is highly representative of Taylor’s work. He paints people but does not want to be seen as a portraitist. He searches for …

Art Reflection – Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) immigrated to Massachusetts from Germany as a child. After an art apprenticeship in Germany, he returned to America to paint vast and lavish landscapes of the West. He joined explorations of the westward expansion and painted the beauty discovered. Bierstadt had a reverence for the land and with others promoted preservation, conservation and …

Art Reflection – Pratt Harvey Pratt was born in Oklahoma in 1941. He was born a member of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Tribes and a descendant of American frontiersman, William Bent. His life has been intersectional from his birth. He served in the Marines and is one of the Cheyenne Peace Chiefs. He served in law enforcement as a composite …

Art Reflection – Chagoya Enrique Chagoya was born in Mexico City in 1953. He immigrated to Berkeley, California in 1979. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA at UC Berkeley. He teaches art and art history at Stanford. His paintings and etchings reflect his view of the changing nature of culture and his political …

Art Reflection – Botero Columbian artist Fernando Botero was one of the most successful and recognizable artists of the 20th century. His paintings and sculptures are consistently filled with inflated figures and objects. His “balloon” people and animals give us his mysterious take on people going about their lives in a satiated way.  Botero was known for these satirical, political …

Art Reflection – Morrison I am excited to share the artist George Morrison with you. His Ojibwe name was Wah Wah Teh Go Nay Ga Bo. It means “Standing in the Northern Lights.” He was a member of the Grand Portage Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. He was born and died in small towns in far northern Minnesota. Between …