Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Henry John Boddington’s “Early Morning on the Thames”
Source: Early Morning on the Thames – Here is one from our late 1970s / early 1980s sold archives by the 19th century British Victorian landscape artist Henry John Boddington (1811-1865). Henry John was born into the Williams family and decided … More…
Ashmolean Museum hands back Renaissance riches linked to Nazi looters
Here is a nice story about a museum doing the right thing … after the Ashmolean Museum received a large gift from the estate of Michael Wellby they proceeded to trace the provenance of the items. Professor Tim Wilson, the museum’s … More…
Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Montague Dawson’s “The Crest of a Wave”
Source: The Crest of a Wave – Here is a dramatic ship portrait by the 20th century British artist Montague Dawson (1895-1973) that we sold in 2011. Dawson is considered, by many, to be Britain’s most important marine artist of the 20th … More…
Jackson Pollock’s forgotten bleak masterpieces – Tate Liverpool
This should be a very interesting exhibition of Jackson Pollock in monochrome. In 1951 Pollock began to explore a middle ground between abstraction and figuration in a series of works painted in black on raw canvas. He exhibited them at … More…
Why Was Whistler’s Mom Such a Grump? At The Clark Art Institute.
Considered, by many, to be the most important American work of art to have never lived in the U.S., Whistler’s “Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother)” was painted in 1871, purchased by the French government in … More…
Sending Art to the Moon
The Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institution has plans to send a four-chambered ‘Ark’ to the moon. The size of half a soda can, this ark will hold four engraved sapphire disks, small metal sculptures, biological samples of life on earth, … More…