Posts by lindilou

Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821-1872), Landscape with Rainbow, 1859, 30 x 52.25″, oil on canvas I didn’t catch this pastoral landscape on WSJ Live on Inauguration Day, but perhaps some of you watching on television did.  It had been selected by Jill Biden from the Smithsonian Collection to be on prominent display in the U.S. Capital during the...

So, the other day I thought I’d take a quick look at the history of fabric and clothes, then report.  That turned out like taking a quick glance at the entire worldwide history of art.  In other words, it includes virtually everything.  First off,  everyone was naked for who knows how many tens of thousands of years or whether they had...

As we all know these days, everyday happenings are now major events, so it felt very adventurous to get onto the 1 California bus and ride part way (I walked the rest) to the de Young Museum’s Frida Kahlo show.  It was hung in early March and had already been sold out so anticipation was high for huge attendance and rave critical reviews.  And...

Jackson Pollack (1912-1926), Number 19, 1954, 30 7/8″ x 22 5/8″, Paint dripped on canvas Our smoky San Francisco skies these days put me in mind of Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings. The one above is actually a bit unusual because he signed it upper left as a vertical and it is more ‘conveniently’ sized than his enormous, wall sized...

Cathedrale Nortre-Dame de Chartres So, appropriately because it was Sunday, I took a quick trip to Chartres.  (via Zoom and an artist guide who is leads tours to the site).  It was my first time ‘there’ and really one of the few times I’ve been so attentive to the details of church architecture and history.As architecturally significant...