After 8 years and $350 million, the Cleveland Museum of Art has–finally!–completed its ambitious renovations. The long awaited (by me) opening of the new West Wing’s China, India and Southeast Asia collections means all collections are once again on view after the long hiatus. I am a fervent admirer of Asian art, especially painting, so I stomped…
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Bio, Uncategorized, Vermilion, OH
WWWinter
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Cold beauty of frozen Lake Erie
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•The long shadows from the afternoon sun transforms Lake Erie into an otherworldly landscape. During the winter the sun is in the southwestern sky. In the summer it moves over the lake; by June it would be visible in the photo’s left edge. The predicted high temperate for next Tuesday is -3–that’s not windchill, either.…
Bio, Uncategorized, Vermilion, OH
Winter 2014
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•For us winter really starts when Lake Erie freezes. The snow-covered expanse beyond my backyard is the lake. Yesterday, believe it or not, there was no snow or ice out there. This all happened overnight. Extended cold weather makes the lake sluggish as the surface begins to freeze. The lake behaves bizarrely at those times;…
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In the studio 1/1/2014
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I hope you and yours had the best Christmas and Santa brought you everything you wanted! Children at home always makes Christmas memorable.
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Robert Blackburn
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•During my weekly visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art I was pleasantly surprised to see a newly-hung lithograph titled Blackburn. In the lithograph by Ron Adams (an artist heretofore unknown to me) I instantly recognized my former mentor Robert Blackburn. Adams portrays Robert doing what he was always doing: working a printing press. I…
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Small oil sketch
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•This recently finished sketch is on a canvas board that was prepared as I described in an earlier post. I deviated from my normal medium with the addition of a small amount of stand oil. We lived close to the State hospital in Trenton for several years in a neighborhood called Hilltonia. Hilltonia is a…