Winslow Homer

Art review: Carol Selter at Charlie James Gallery

2011-07-08 16:33:09

<![CDATA[Art review: Carol Selter at Charlie James Gallery]]>

Edward Hopper painting to become U.S. postage stamp

2011-08-15 21:33:09

<![CDATA[Edward Hopper painting to become U.S. postage stamp]]>

Wynton Marsalis swings for the fences

2011-02-06 00:00:00

Wynton Marsalis is explaining jazz to me by talking about my boots. He is coming to Walt Disney Concert Hall this weekend to play his ambitious new composition, "Swing Symphony," with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But before we get into musical details,...

Discoveries

2010-10-31 00:00:00

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat ( Princeton University Press: 181 pp., $19.95) "Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part...

Book review: 'Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories' by Simon Winchester

2010-12-12 00:00:00

Atlantic Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Simon Winchester HarperCollins: 512 pp., $27.99 One of the great joys of reading a Simon Winchester book is the inadvertent discovery of minutiae that...

Ed Ruscha weighs in on Obamas' taste in art

2009-10-15 16:32:34

Bernie Fuchs dies at 76; magazine illustrator

2009-10-02 23:06:00

Bernie Fuchs, an illustrator whose influential work for magazines ranging from Cosmopolitan to Sports Illustrated seamlessly blended qualities of traditional narrative with hints of abstract composition, died of esophageal cancer Sept. 17 at a care...

Art review: 'American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915' @ LACMA

2010-02-28 21:32:45

Art of the steal

2005-12-04 00:00:00

In editorial cartooning, as my colleague Steve Kelley of the New Orleans Times-Picayune says, art often irritates life. Cartoonists also irritate, imitate and borrow liberally from other artists. Playful homages to classic masterworks and pop culture...

Archie Green dies at 91; folklorist studied lives of working people

2009-03-29 00:00:00

Archie Green liked to tell people he had two educations -- one on San Francisco's waterfront, the other in the university. But the former shipwright and carpenter didn't just trade his blue collar for a white one. He merged the two identities and...

A republic reflected in 'Battle Hymn'

2009-01-24 00:00:00

In case you missed it, there was a big stage production in Washington, D.C., this week involving symbolic rebirth, stirring rhetoric and sobering evocations of bloody national conflicts, mixed with some lighter touches, all performed near the memorial...

Hugely popular painter Andrew Wyeth dies at 91

2009-01-17 00:00:00

Andrew Wyeth, whose realistic yet often melancholy paintings of rural Pennsylvania and Maine made him one of America's most popular living artists, and whose 1948 landscape "Christina's World" was one of the 20th century's most famous artworks, died...

This collection of scenes from the 1862 siege of Yorktown was published in Harper's Weekly and attributed to Winslow Homer, the famous American artist who served as a young war correspondent during the Civil War.

2012-04-27 00:00:00

"Sunset" - ca. 1875, oil on canvas painting by Winslow Homer

2009-11-09 11:22:42