Feb 12, 2024 | Art History, Art News, Reviews, travel, travel for artists
“White Ships”, John Singer Sargent 1908, watercolor over graphite, with gouache and wax resist, Brooklyn Museum, National Gallery of Art “Tarragona”, c. 1908, watercolor over graphite with gouache. New Britain Museum of American Art, National... 
Jan 10, 2024 | Americans in Paris, Art History, Art News, art retreat, inspiration, painting workshop, travel, Workshop News
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, View of the Forest of Fontainebleau (1830) How the Artists of the Forest of Fontainebleau Opened the Door to Impressionism By: Vanessa Françoise Rothe Impressionist landscape paintings are among the most widely known and appreciated works... 
Mar 31, 2022 | Art History, Scotland
“To Pastures New”, Sir James Guthrie, 1883 Every time we explore a travel destination our lives become richer for the experience. That’s to be expected, after all, that’s why we are so motivated to organize these types of events. Sometimes the unexpected... 
Feb 24, 2022 | Art History, art materials, Provence
The Bedroom Vincent van Gogh, Arles, October 1888 Left as it looks now, right a digital reproduction of the original colors. Images from the Van Gough Museum Alizarin and Fugitives Vincent van Gogh’s “The Bedroom” gives a first hand look at the... 
Feb 8, 2022 | Art History, Art News, carrieres de lumieres, Les Baux, Provence
The Quarry of Light illuminates the Serenity of Venetian Art at Les Carrières des Lumières Every year we wait with anticipation to hear which artists will be spotlighted in an immense audiovisual display at Les Carrières de Lumieres, the Quarry of Light. In the... 
Mar 5, 2021 | Art History
Detail from “In the Afternoon,” 1891 John Peter Russell The Lost Impressionist Moving in the Impressionist’s Circles It was while taking painting classes in Montmartre, Paris in 1886 that he was classmates with Émile Bernard, Toulouse-Lautrec and...
