For more on Leyendecker and this exhibition, see Part 1. This is the fifth and final post in the series. This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/LOdk_H2ajwM. 1923:…
This website – and my Sunday Recommendations email list – are dedicated to art that’s inspiring, thought-provoking, skillfully executed, and/or breathtakingly beautiful. Once a year, I stretch that to include fabulous events, decorations,…
For more on Leyendecker and this exhibition, see Part 1. This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/0nyfqQY_ohQ. 1914+: Spring covers An array of spring covers for the Saturday…
For more on Leyendecker and this exhibition, see Part 1 of this series. This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/nICG9plz0Q4. 1910: Athlete, by Frank Leyendecker This painting is…
This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/mBIjL99oxMc. Just in time for Christmas (or birthdays, or long weekends...): Sunny Sundays, Highlights of FIve Years of Sunday Recommendations. Order from…
For more on Leyendecker and this 2019 exhibition at Reynolda House (Winston-Salem, NC), see Part 1 of this series. This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/uA89KSj0SNY. 1907+: July…
These photos were taken back in 2019 at an exhibition of the work of J.C. Leyendecker at Reynolda House in Winston-Salem, NC. I've arranged the works in chronological order. Much…
In 79 AD Mount Vesuvius, just north of Naples, erupted with devastating effects on the towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Boscoreale, which had been built on Vesuvius's slopes as vacation…
On the Museum (in Old Lyme, CT) and Miss Florence, see last week's post. This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/QenyUAtgeIQ. This week: a handful of paintings from…
This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/EctiIFjpxsw. In the early 1800s the town of Old Lyme, on the Connecticut River near Long Island Sound, was a prosperous shipbuilding…