Some Art Works 4a

 The very first issue of my arts magazine this year is filled with wonderful images and articles

 which I enjoyed very much.  I thought perhaps you would enjoy some of them also.

"A Glorious Sunset" by Alma Thomas.

Alma was a Black middle school teacher in Washington, D.C. for many years and

painted in her free time.  She loved nature, and she developed a style of intense

colors, abstraction, and a mosaic-like appearance.  This work is part of a show

which is currently at the Fort Lauderdale Art Museum featuring Color Field

Painters from Washington, D.C.

This cabinet, made of various kinds of exotic wood, was created by Holland

and Sons in London for the Prince of Wales in his new house in 1873,

Marlborough House, with his new wife, Alexandra of Denmark.  It has

shelves inside for storing towels.  Prince Albert was the son of

Queen Victoria and later became King Edward VII.

"Flora Imaginaria" by Robert Walker is a photograph taken in the

Montreal Botanic Gardens and being shown now in Palm Beach

as part of a photographic exhibit featuring "Imaginary Flora."

A gallery in Palm Springs, CA, is showing five young California artists.

This painting of "House Interior" and its flat style are typical of a number of

artists, all of whom are indebted to the British artist, David Hockney, who

lived in Los Angeles for a number of years.

This is an oil painting by Kesja Tabaczak of Norway, not a photograph.

"Impossible to Resist" depicts a young girl with a peony in photographic

detail.

"Portrait of Vita Sackville West" by Nikoleta Sekulovich. who lives in Madrid, 

is a painting of the British author and lover of Virginia Woolf.  The juxtaposition

 of richly patterned background with the realism of the face is another

trend in California painting.

There is a very large and rich show of art works set in the pueblos of the Southwest

at Colby College in Maine.  Both Native American artists and Anglo artists who

worked with them and in the pueblos are included.  William Robinson Leigh's

"Zuni Potter Working" is from 1903.

John Marin, "New Mexico Landscape" is a watercolor from 1929.

Marin was a New England artist who spent time in the pueblos and desert.

"Acoma Water Vessel" is an earthenware jug made on the pueblo.  Native American

Pottery began to attract much attention at the beginning of the 20th century, and

Native American potters became famous artists.

"Basket" by Sarah Sockbosen is made from aluminum house siding and spray-painted.

Sarah is a member of the Penobscot tribe in Maine, and is famous for the baskets she

makes from many materials.  She works with other Native American artists.

Dan Namingha, "August Moon" is from 2022.  Dan is a famous Navajo artist.

Thomas Moran, "Acoma," 1902. Moran traveled throughout the West and Southwest

in the late 19th century and came back East and painted very large and dramatic

paintings which established the idea of the West for Americans.

Jason Garcia is a young artist who works to understand the relationship

between his Native American heritage and the Anglo world around him.

"I Live Off the Land . . . and Sonics" is one of his paintings showing

a Native American woman using both the traditional and the very modern,

He paints with the simple shapes and flat colors of Pop Art.

Zhong Wei.  "Two People in the Blue of the Sky."  2023

Zhong lives in Beijing and is one of many Chinese artists represented by

galleries in the U.S., especially in Los Angeles and New York.

Carrie Ann Plank is interested in geometric, carefully constructed

abstract patterns. "Elemental Lattice Orange Red." 2022

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