Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Brooks Shane Salzwedel draws ephemeral landscape images in layers of graphite, tape and resin. His unusual, and painstaking, approach gives his images a delicate feeling of depth and otherworldly mystery. He often juxtaposes artificial constructs, like metal towers, with natural forms, both emphasizing the contrast in form and the odd harmony of their place in…

Through some remarkable combination of circumstance and personal strength, the work of Judith Leyster was not lost to us; as must have been the case with countless potential women artists who were denied the opportunity to even pick up a brush by centuries of restrictive social convention. Leyster was active in Harrlem and Amsterdam in…

Cowboy Artists of America is an organization devoted, in the words of the founders: To perpetuate the memory and culture of the Old West as typified by the late Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and others; To insure authentic representations of the life os the West, as it was and is; To maintain standards of quality…

You will sometimes hear people argue about the most important events in human history — the discovery of fire, the wheel or the printing press, the first cave paintings, or, in a longer view, the first deliberate cultivation of plants or the rise of cro-magnons and the apparent extinction of the neanderthals. But, as a…

Having lived in the Philadelphia area for most of my life, I’ve long been acquainted with two of the oldest independent artists’ organizations in the U.S., The Plastic Club and the Philadelphia Sketch Club. I know them both from attending drawing workshops and participating in exhibits at each of the clubs. The Philadelphia Sketch Club…