[image_with_animation image_url=”9047″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Eleanora Duse When looking at John Singer Sargent’s “effortless” portraits, I often wonder how long he actually spent on each. He wanted the painting to look fresh, with an economy of brush strokes, so a painting that looks like it was done in one …
March 13, 2020 was the League’s first day in quarantine. March 20, 2020 was scheduled to be League artist Lucy Garnett’s ‘Notations’ show reception at Shoreline City Hall. It was half a lifetime of work, and the League-hosted celebration was canceled. Here’s a look back at one of her pieces that seems to have an …
Yesterday I wrote about Bonnard’s sketches, and included an unkind description of his wife Marthe. “Bonnard’s wife Marthe was a difficult and neurotic woman who spent a disproportionate amount of her day in obsessive washing and bathing. Thanks to this quirk, Bonnard made many intimate figurative works.” I had read that Marthe was neurotic, difficult, …
My painting “Sisters” is on display, unfinished
Ruthie V. Black Painting, after Goya. Oil on linen 72×48″
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Yesterday I wrote about Bonnard’s sketches, and included an unkind description of his wife Marthe. “Bonnard’s wife Marthe was a difficult and neurotic woman who spent a disproportionate amount of her day in obsessive washing and bathing. Thanks to this quirk, Bonnard made many intimate figurative works.” I had read that Marthe was neurotic, difficult, …