"My pictures are full of abstract climates and not nature per se, but a feeling." -Helen Frankethaler, 1962 Helen Fr...

“The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist ...

There's an excellent show of five contemporary New England artists at the Fitchburg Art Museum titled Fantastical, Political. As I wro...

Gearhead warning! I'm the proud owner of a brand new custom-made antique-hardwood paintbox/sketchbox that a friend of mine crafted for m...

.... and dismissed utterly (but not by me!) as a big part of what's wrong with the art world. Claes Oldenburg, “French Fries and Ke...

Dennis Miller Bunker,  The Brook at Medfield , 1889 (one of several versions of this motif) Though his life would be tragically cut sh...