Sunday, October 27, 2019
Friday, October 11, 2019
The Good Ship Donut
Back in 2006, artist, teacher, and official Club Historian, Stuart Fullerton, drove out to Fox Lake to find the location of the Palette and Chisel's lost summer camp.
A few years later, I provided a map and offered my best guess for where it actually was.
Regretfully, there has been no subsequent attempt to purchase the property and return to that Arcadian life-style of fishing, boating, and painting nude models in the great outdoors.
But we have finally located a photograph of the Academy's boat -- the good ship Donut. (So named, apparently, because it had a hole in the middle)
This picture comes from the newly published Catalog Raisonne of Gustave Baumann , one of our more famous members (He's the natty gentleman leaning against the mast) It was he who designed the masthead for the Cow Bell (an academy newsletter that has regretfully been discontinued)
He also appeared in a recent show at Art Institute
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Christina Body - 2019
nice.
Is this Cuba ?
There's never an overcast day in Christina Body's world.
And it never rains (as it always does whenever Errol Jacobson sets up his easel)
That's OK with me --- I also prefer a bright, sunny day.
Though it does seem that sometimes the artist
is more concerned with recording whatever colors
she sees in the world,
rather than with how that color looks in the painting.