Art Reflection – Crowe Eyre Crowe (1864-1910) was a British artist. He travelled to American for six months in 1852-1853 as the personal secretary for the lecture tour of British author, William Makepeace Thackeray. The tour included cities from Boston to Savannah. Crowe chronicled these visits in words and art including scenes of American society. His images of the domestic …

Art Reflection – Chagall Marc Chagall (1887-1985) painted his way across many art periods. His paintings done in bright colors of expressionism, surrealism, modernism often were narratives of Hebrew scripture and of the love in his life. In his seventies, he took up a new medium, stained glass. The Window of Peace and Human Happiness was commissioned as a memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld, …

Art Reflection – Wyeth Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) is quoted as saying, “I paint my life.”  He is known for his realistic works of the land and people around him in at his homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. One unique element of his art is his perspective. His works often have a captivating quality growing from his chosen view. Wyeth often …

Art Reflection – Kandinsky I recently discovered this piece by Wassily Kandinsky, Russian artist and art theorist, (1866-1944). It represents an early work of this artist as he begins his transition from representation to abstraction, an art movement he pioneered. Kandinsky commented once upon seeing a more abstract painting that it held ”fairy tale power and splendor.” He is also …

Art Reflection – Knight Many recent conversations about the calamities of our times, brought this artist to mind. Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) created around many subjects with many mediums. She fought for a place in the art world, another of the long list of men’s worlds. She became one of the most successful and popular artists in Britain claiming the …

Art Reflection – Stockton Bill Stockton (1921-2002) painted what he knew best, the views of Central Montana. His life as a sheep rancher brought him close to this land and sky each day and his art is a tribute to these views. Village in Winter was done in graphite, oil pastel and livestock marker, a large paint stick used to temporarily mark animals. …

Art Reflection – Harris Lawren Stuart Harris (1885-1970) was a Canadian painter. He was a leading member of the Group of Seven, artists who painted to build a sense of national identity for Canada. He painted in an abstracted manner and was influenced by early Modernism. His use of color, line, shape and texture brings a structural, surreal quality to …

Art Reflection – Afremov Leonid Afremov (1955-2019) was born in Vitebsk, Belarus, and into the Jewish tradition. He painted with a palette knife or wide brush and is known for his impressionistic land and city scapes that explode in color. He shows us here what he saw on a city night of storm and reflection. This piece seems a felt …

Art Reflection – Bing On a late October day in 2014, I visited the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. I had heard a slight mention of the installation by internationally renowned Chinese artist, Xu Bing, but I was completely unprepared for what I saw. I hope this image is worth thousands of words. Here are a few more. These …

Art Reflection – Rice This art selection is a woodblock print by American artist, William S. Rice (1873-1963). It is called Cedar in Snow.  Rice created many unique, stunning images of the dramatic Northern California landscape. His stylized lines, his both bold and muted colors, mark these representational works. Rice believed the attention to nature reflected in his art was in …