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Entries Tagged as 'Painting'

The Art of the Finish

February 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Art, Images, photography

    Annie Dillard, in her book The Writing Life asks “How many gifts do we open from which the writer neglected to remove the price tag? Is it pertinent, is it courteous for us to learn what it cost the writer personally?” This same question can and should be asked of photographers and painters. [...]

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Andrew Wyeth

January 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Christina’s world is smaller today and so is ours. The painter Andrew Wyeth has died at age 91. He and Norman Rockwell were the artists who most influenced me as a high school student in 1968. Both men could draw beautifully and I aspired to such virtuosity. Later, as an Art student at Michigan State [...]

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