The goddess has been here about six months now, but we met her several years ago at Jim and Phoebe Caldwell’s – she stood above our bed there, when we visited, for two week. By then I was in love with her. She is imposing, a vaguely disapproving look on her face – and two …
Tag: Art
The “Mother of Dragons” gets her tattoo
Lauren’s amazing ink:
Goshawk
This will be one illo by Eldridge Hardie from a new collection of the works of North Dakota poet and hunter Tim Murphy. He and El gave it to me! I have been a fan of Eldridge’s work for at least as long as the old Gray’s that we both worked at existed. I brought …
New Gorbatov
Anne Price of the REF</> has just sent a link to an enormous bunch of recent work by Vadim Gorbatov</>. Seems like he is doing a lot of urban wildlife lately… (and no, I don’t know why that extra code shows)
Freud’s Hounds & People
A peceptive Jenny French noticed that Stefan’s pic of me and the girls ersembled Clement Freud’s late dog and person pics.She was right:
Pepe’s Art
My old pigeon partner Jose Morales y Serranno, who met his wife , an Albuquerqe native of Italian descent, returned to Sevilla after getting his PhD in English- speaking writers of the Spanish Civil War. Despite occasional political disagreements- like Pepe’s fellow traveler on the left Stephen Spender, I will never think of Roy Campbell …
Art Show and Catalogue
“Our” art show opened in Memphis this week and by all accounts is a total success. How could it not be with walls like these? And especially paintings like this: !Here is the book, with my contribution. Buy it, you won’t regret it! Thanks especially to the perfect editor and curator, Kevin Sharp; to Toby …
Unruh
Jack Unruh was a fine artist who did the best, or at least the most interesting, illustrations for many magazines , especially ones of the Time- Life Group, for over 50 years. One of his last regular assignments was doing the pic for the humor column by Bill Heavey at the end of Field and …
Tanuma Photos
I have carried around a 1969 Life magazine (with a photo of Ted Kennedy just post- Chappaqudick on the cover!) because it has a gallery of wonderful images by photographer T Tanuma.Yesterday, hoping to put them in a more secure mode, I photo’d them.These are some of the results.
A few Images
Some images to hold you–we are heading up to to Santa Fe to see Pluvialis! (Perhaps better known today in our crowd as RockStar Helen, to her embarrassment..). We’ll be back Sunday. Reid may report on their dinner in Denver later… he and Connie, Anne “Anyushka” Price and Chas and Mary attending… And the countdown …