A Fall Landscape: Lan Ying
This past weekend we laid to rest my dear father-in-law. He was always a big fan of the color changes to the trees in the fall in New England, which is peaking right about now. I am dedicating this we ...
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Artist Birthday: Larry Walker
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | Karl ColeLarry Walker was born in Georgia but raised from one year of age in Harlem, New York, in the waning days of the Harlem Renaissance. A consummate abstractionist, he also devoted his life to art edu ...
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An October Gem: John La Farge
Monday, October 20, 2025 | Karl ColeJohn La Farge is a fascinating and multi-faceted artist in late 1800s American art. Trained in painting, he branched out into mural painting, and particularly stained glass. In fact, La Farge received ...
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Artist Birthday: Hugh Bolton Jones
Monday, October 20, 2025 | Karl ColeHugh Bolton Jones was one of the many American artists whose painting was influenced by the French Realist Barbizon school in the late 1800s. He enthusiastically embraced the technique of en plein ...
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Late Summer Idyll with Pierre Bonnard
Monday, August 18, 2025 | Karl ColeLoving landscape and pure, bright colors as I do, naturally I am absolutely crazy about the landscapes of Pierre Bonnard. He has been variously called Neo-Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and the Na ...
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Artist Birthday: Alvan Fisher
Friday, August 8, 2025 | Karl ColeAt the time Alvan Fisher began painting landscapes, the Hudson River School had not yet formed in New England. Fisher was among less than a handful of artists who were dedicated to landscape painting. ...
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Artist Birthday: Gustav Klimt
Monday, July 14, 2025 | Karl ColeGustav Klimt, along with Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was a leading Austrian modernist at the turn of the 1900s. Although noted as a society portrait painter in an Art Nouveau/Byzantine mosaic li ...
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AAPI Heritage Month 2025: Tadashi Sato
Monday, May 19, 2025 | Karl ColeIn celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I’m featuring the work of Tadashi Sato. Sato was an American artist of Japanese descent who introduced traditional Japanese ...
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Artist Birthday: Thomas Gainsborough
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | Karl ColeThomas Gainsborough’s art was the epitome of the elegant, sophisticated and generally low-key Rococo style that characterized late 1700s British art. It was a major contrast to the flamboyant, o ...
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Gem of the Month: Pasquale Santo
Monday, May 5, 2025 | Karl ColeI had a sudden “beauty attack” last week when I looked closely at this artist’s work for the first time. Being a painter myself, I am always flabbergasted by how many artists come an ...
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Artist Birthday: Peter Doig
Thursday, April 17, 2025 | Karl ColePeter Doig is a Scottish painter who has lived in Canada, London, Trinidad for 20 years, and now back in London. He focuses on both landscapes and figures, melding art historical and personal referenc ...
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Artist Birthday: Kenneth Noland
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | Karl ColeKenneth Noland was part of the Post Painterly Abstraction group of Color Field artists who sought to distance themselves from the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. His epiphany moment came, ...
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Artist Birthday: William H. Jackson
Friday, April 4, 2025 | Karl ColeJackson took photographs of Shoshone Falls numerous times from every conceivable angle. Like the other photographers who were early chroniclers of the Western territories, Jackson's photographs emphas ...
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Artist Birthday: Nōguchi Shōhin
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 | Karl ColeThe painting style that evolved during the Southern Song Dynasty is considered by scholars to have been the classic example of Chinese monochromatic painting, particularly the "literati" sty ...
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Visualizing Cold in Works of Art
Monday, January 27, 2025 | Karl ColeIt probably does not need saying by now, but the last week has been quite cold in New England. I thought it might be interesting to see how artists visually interpret the idea of “cold.”&n ...
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Art for National Peach Month 2024
Monday, August 19, 2024 | Karl ColeAugust was first declared National Peach Month in the United States in 1982. Since August is the month when peaches are supposed to be at their peak ripeness, let’s look at some works of art tha ...
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