American Art Collector: November 2024 Edition
American Art Collector September 2023 Edition: Artist Focus
Magic of La Bohème - Zauber der Bohème JUNE 2023 Art and poetry from 26 countires
Critics regard Puccini’s works as sentimental, but the fact of the matter is: They are enchanting! Whilst working on Mimi’s dying scene, Puccini is said to have burst into heavy sobbing. The spiritual and sensory origin of his aesthetic sensitivity was Tuscany. It was in Torre del Lago, a romantic village near Lucca, that he lived and suffered with the heroes and heroines of his operas.“La Bohème”made the maestro world famous.
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American Art Collector November 2022 Edition: Artist Focus
Janet Grissom has been revisiting her youth when she had the desire to create but not the tools she needed to do so. Her latest body of work goes back to that childhood and captures the imagery that inspired her as a young girl.
American Art Collector April 2022 Edition: Collector's Focus: Seascapes, Rivers & Lakes
Henrietta Benson Homer (1809-84) was an accomplished nature watercolorist who exhibited her work at the Brooklyn Art Association during the 1870s and 1880s. She encouraged her son, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) to pursue a career in art and taught him basic watercolor techniques. Between 1873 and 1905, he created over 700 watercolors, many of scenes of water from the lakes and streams of the Adirondacks, to the rugged coast of Maine, to the bright and colorful waters of the Bahamas.
Art Ideal Magazine Vol.2, March 2022
The second issue of Art IDEAL magazine includes the work of 100 contemporary artists from around the world. We look at a variety of practices; from painters working in traditional oil on canvas, contemporary realism and abstract expressionism, photographers capturing in film and digital in the studio and outdoors as well as a variety of unique techniques in 2D, 3D and digital media. This diverse anthology provides an opportunity to discover mid-career and established artists and explore a wide spectrum of contemporary aesthetics.
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American Art Collector October 2021 Edition: Collector's Focus: Visions of fall
Apples delight many times during the year—from their pink blossoms in the spring to their ripe fruit in the fall and throughout much of the year if the fruit are kept properly. The Red Delicious is a good keeper.
American Art Collector September 2021 Edition: Collector's Focus: Landscapes
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) was a poet and professor of English literature at Wellesley College. In 1893, on a lecture tour to Colorado Springs, she joined a group that made the arduous trek to the top of Pikes Peak. Overwhelmed by the view, she wrote in her notebook about “the sea-like expanse of fertile country . . . under those ample skies,” and “the opening lines of the hymn floated into my mind.” The lines are: “O beautiful for spacious skies, / For amber waves of grain, / For purple mountain majesties / Above the fruited plain!”
American Art Collector August 2021 Edition: Artist Focus
The year 2020 pushed oil painter Janet Grissom in a direction she has never traveled, each day a new challenge the artist tried to turn into an adventure. She started walking daily, and “during my walks, my mind was freed by searching for phenomenal colors and forms found in the common environments that would become my repeated paths for the next year.” Each time she returned to her studio library, she found books with interesting information relating to what she observed on the walk.
Studio Visit 2020: Volume 48
Grissom’s paintings are vivid, encrusted layers of oil colors on canvas that are about her sensitivity to nature. Whether these messages of meaning are found in the fields, trees, wildflowers, or waters, she finds a way of combining found shapes of color and texture, one layer at a time.
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American Art Collector March 2020 Edition: Collector's Focus: Women Artists
Experiencing nature through the eyes of artists can open our eyes not only to its complex beauty but to its salubrious qualities. We are one with nature and benefit from shedding whatever separates us from it. Nature in art can also be a metaphor for ideas that defy the constructed intricacies of language.