Here's is a quick way to navigate my blog entries, which fall into two major categories: ART I SEE and ART I MAKE. Each category is presented in reverse chronological order (most recent first).
BLOG INDEX
ART I SEE
Simply put, these posts mostly reflect my interests in print collecting. They range from prints I buy, print-making and print makers, and writers of prints and print-making. ART I SEE also includes a few posts on painted American federal furniture, which I've also been able to acquire and enjoy living with. A few other posts involved art I've seen overseas including a month's stay in India in 2016.
JEWISH ARTISTS IN ERETZ ISRAEL 18 articles
Arieh Allweil
- Introducing Arieh Allweil
- Arieh Allweil's Amos, Part 1.
- Arieh Allweil's Amos, Part 2
- Arieh Allweil's suite of lithographs.
- Allweil's Scroll of Esther
- Allweil's Scroll of Ruth.
- Allweil's Scroll of Lamentation
- Arieh Allweil's Touring the Land.
- Arieh Allweil's Anonymous Jew.
- Arieh Allweil's first Haggadah.
- Allweil's independence Haggadah
- Allweil's IDF Haggadah
Erich Glas
- Comparing the two editions of his holocaust book.
- Erich Glas's fables wood engravings.
- Erich Glas's Holocaust book of linocuts.
- P.K. Hoenich and Erich Glas
Gustav Wolf
JEWISH ARTISTS IN AMERICA 7 articles
- Isac Friedlander's Coney Island
- Irwin Hoffman, etcher of workers
- Eli Jacobi's Bowery.
- Harry Sternberg’s woodcut autobiography
- American Jewish printmakers represented in my collection.
- Discovering two sizes for Harry Gottlieb's The Coal Pickers print.
- Researching Josseph Leboit's intaglio Plastic Values.
OTHER 20TH CENTURY PRINTMAKERS 15 articles
- Frans Masereel's 1939 workers' paradise book
- Otto Schatz's “Der Ackermann und der Tod" woodcuts
- Gan Kolski: Protest by Suicide
- Oscar Graf's Goethe
- Bruno Goldschmitt's Die Bibel.
- Brangwyn and Eby on World War I.
- Frank Brangwyn & Yoshijiro Urushibara.
- Karl Rössing: Witness to Weimar's final Years.
- Picture Books by Landacre, Underwood and Rössing.
- John Sloan's Anatomy
- Emma Bormann: A Family Affair
- R. O. Hodgell: Master Linocutter.
- Barbara Paca on Ruth Starr Rose.
- Robert Meyrick Gives New Life to Sydney Lee.
- Willard Clark: In the Words of his Grandson.
CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKERS 28 articles
- Justin Remo's Big Finale
- Justin Remo's "Dogwater Beach"
- Anne Desmet's Babel
- George Walker: Canada's premier wordless novelist.
- George Walker cuts a contemporary take on Carroll's Snark.
- George Walker’s completed new Images from the Neocerebellum. (See more Walker posts below.)
- Stefan Berg's Architecture of Music.
- Stefan Berg's wordless novel.
- Catching up with wordless novelists Stefan Berg and George Walker.
- Eric Avery: "Paradise" comes to Baltimore
- Eric Avery: Doctor of Printmaking
- Eric Avery, making COVID Bowl, Part 1
- Eric Avery, making COVID Bowl, Part 2
- Richard Wagener: California's naturalist/wood engraver
- Shadra Strickland’s linocut illustrations.
- Donna Diamond's light works.
- Donna Diamond's horrific linocuts.
- Evan Lindquist, master engraver.
- Trudi Ludwig Johnson's Mission Accomplished. (See first post on Trudi below)
- Trudi Ludwig Johnson cuts down to the bone.
- Rosemary Feit Covey: Printmaker's Journey.
- Raj Bunnag's monster print in progress.
- Raj Bunnag's 7.5-foot-long Linocut.
- Collaborators: Raoul Middleman and Brian Garner.
- Who was Lenore Szesko?
- Soledad Salamé's Sol Print Studio.
- Sol Print Studio's exhibition.
- Giant woodcuts of Tom Huck & Thom Shaw.
19TH CENTURY PRINTMAKERS 5 articles
OTHER POSTS ON ART MAKING 4 articles
PRINT COLLECTING 9 articles
- Print Accessions: Short stories
- Conserving Alfred Rethel's Todtentanz broadsheet:
- Important print acquisitions in 2019
- How and why the prints in my bedroom were bought.
- Letter from Lynd Ward.
- Baltimore's Publications & Multiples Fair.
- No Print Collecting without Print Dealers.
- Nature Mort: Dead Game as Art.
- Portfolio Madness: A Diary
DECORATIVE ARTS 12 articles
- Rampant Griffins on four fancy chairs
- Plain painted Baltimore fancy chairs
- Jerome Clock mystery solved
- Bookcase upgrade: going high style.
- Better federal high-post bed.
- Finlay fancy chairs ... maybe.
- Chasing Boston chairs, buying Baltimore commode.
- Maybe a set of Phyfe chairs
- The Mitchell/Willard tall-case clock
- Marble-top pier table and high-back fancy chair
- Signed set of John Swint painted chairs.
- Painted Furniture: Learning about Original Surfaces.
TRAVEL 9 articles
- Seeing art in Tetouan, Morocco
- Carved facades in Uttarakhand, India.
- Julie's & Nicoles's Paper Aipen. (See two posts on Aipen paintngs in Art Residencies category.)
- Belgium and The Netherlands: The Paper Trail.
- Petroglyphs in Northern California.
Four short posts on travel to northern Tuscany, 2012:
BLOG INDEX
ART I MAKE
The following posts present a few mostly visual essays about my own art making.
ART RESIDENCIES 4 articles
IN THE STUDIO AND HOUSE 15 articles
- The creation of Circularity
- Linocuts series grow to 15
- Hand-colored linocuts
- Planets Come to Italy
- Learning to faux paint
- Sidewalk Studio deja vu
- Italian Doorways, Infinite Vistas
- The evolution of my UP IN ARMS watercolors.
- Fighting Fires: Step by Step
- Floorcloth Making for 1806 House.
- Operation Operating Room.
- 2013 Mini-Retrospective.
- ON THE FENCE: Hands at the RENO Air Show.
- How I Make It: Creating a "Hands" watercolor.
- ITALIAN SKIES: Adding the borders.
