Another quick magazine mention. Anna Richards Brewster, an under-sung American painter who I profiled recently, is featured in a 10-page article in the October, 2008 Issue of American Art Review. For $6 (U.S.), you get a nice overview of her work and 20 images. The Read More …
When looking at the history of art, which in may ways reflects social history, I can’t help but think about how many potentially terrific artists we’ve been denied because women were discouraged or actively prohibited from being artists. Anna Richards Brewster was active at the Read More …
William Trost Richards, one of America’s foremost landscape and marine painters (and father of American Impressionist Anna Richards Brewster), had a patron named George Whitney, who lived near him in Philadelphia and supported him not only by purchasing his works on a regular basis, but Read More …
This is a follow up to my previous article on Artists’ views of Venice, just to add more artists without an ungainly long string of images. It could have been five times as long. [Images above (links to my articles): JMW Turner (with detail), John Read More …