Life-study from a two-hour pose at Fleisher Art Memorial. I have always loved the immediacy and freshness of a study or even a half-finished painting.
Author: art
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Sculpting
Clay on an armature from a model at Fliesher Art Memorial. The sculptors are kind of a club that take these classes ongoing. One of the figure drawing instructors urged us to take clay modeling classes and it becomes a challenge for new students and a way of “keeping in shape” for experienced sculptors.
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Who Knew? Sheboygan, WI.
On a trip to the midwest we stopped in Sheboygan and found it a beautiful town on the lake with two outstanding free museums. The contemporary art museum, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, is right in town, established in and around a Kohler family home. The John Michael Kohler Arts Preserve is just outside of town and features three floors of outsider art collection from around the world.
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Local History
Above, landscape painting Looking Toward Sellers Hall from Mill Bank c.1818. Sellers Hall is on the horizon, center left
I was surprised and pleased to find that Charles Willson Peale was a friend of the Sellers family. Here in this community Sellers Hall and Sellers Library are well known for being a stop on the Underground Railroad.
“The painter Charles Willson Peale, (1741-1827) who voted for the abolition of slavery as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1780,[9] was a frequent visitor of Sellers Hall. His distant view of Sellers Hall (1818) is an early example of American landscape painting.[10] Peale’s daughter, Sophonisba (1786-1859), married Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), and Peale’s granddaughter, the landscape painter Anna Sellers (1824-1905), lived at Sellers Hall.[11] ” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellers_Hall
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LACMA
A visit in LA to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, featuring a quarter mile of Rauschenberg, some great older and odd sculpture, classic modern paintings and much more. Here are a few snaps.
