Tag: Paintings

• Dogs in Art

  DOG ART DOG ART FETCHES BIG MONEY

  Adrienne Morris

  September 16, 2015

  19th Century Art

  animals, Art, blog, dogs, Life, Paintings, pets

• Be Like Audubon And Fly

  

  John James Audubon’s father wanted his son to be a navy guy, but luckily for us he flunked the officers’ qualification test and  happily went back to studying birds, traipsing around America and drawing what he saw. Back then some birds were so unused to humans that they had no fear and sometimes would alight…

  Adrienne Morris

  June 5, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, inspirational, Men

  19th century, Art, Audubon, birds, Birds of America, Books, education, Most expensive book, Paintings, Swans, Wildlife

• On New Year’s Day: A Reverie With Henry O. Tanner

  Henry O Tanner, the son of a slave transcended race through his art and through his Christianity. Back then educated people didn’t just assume that Christians were reactionary bigots (of course some did). Christian themed art wasn’t seen as offensive but part of the long and spectacular tradition of Western civilization. Tanner was the first…

  Adrienne Morris

  January 1, 2014

  Beautiful Images, inspirational, Writing

  19th Century Art, African American Artist, Americana, Art, Chritianity, faith, Galatians, Life, Paintings, Racism, Spiritualism