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Detail from IN THE SEA by Arnold Bocklin Detail of art by George de Fleure

Art and Artifice

Archive 38 - Winter 2022


"Ryder Comes Home"

New Bedford Whaling Museum and Albert Pinkham Ryder

Albert Pinkham Ryder at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts.

Albert Pinkham Ryder - Flying Dutchman

More about Ryder at Albert Pinkham Ryder.org


Art Institute of Chicago fires all the volunteer Docents

Why were they fired?

Despite the lack of remuneration—they do this to be helpful and because they love art—their training to be docents is extremely rigorous. First, they have to have two training sessions per week for eighteen months, and then “five years of continual research and writing to meet the criteria of 13 museum content areas” (quote from the docents’ letter to the Director of the AIC). On top of that, there’s monthly and biweekly training on new exhibits. Then there are the tours themselves, with a docent giving up to two one-hour tours per day for 18 weeks of the year and a minimum of 24 one-hour tours with adults/families. Their average length of service: 15 years. There are other requirements listed by the Docents Council in the ChicagoNow column below (first screenshot). Many of the volunteers—though not all—are older white women...

Story at Chicago Tribune [Paywall]

And at Evolution is True



In the Sea by Arnold Bocklin, 1883

Detail from IN THE SEA by Arnold Bocklin

More about In The Sea - Arnold Bocklin

Chicago Art Institute has a page about the painting here

In the Sea by Arnold Bocklin


Trucks at the VMFA Museum August 2021

At the VMFA Museum


"Invisible sculpture" by Italian artist Salvatore Garau sells for $18K

It is literally invisible. Story at Protothema


Winslow Homer Nets detail

Detail from A Light in the Sea, 1897. Winslow Homer, oil on canvas.

Winslow Homer – Breezing Up, 1876

Winslow Homer – A Light on the Sea, 1897

Winslow Homer – Right and Left, 1909

Winslow Homer – Kissing the Moon, 1904


If you ever wanted to own a Da Vinci, here's your chance

July 8, 2021: Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of "Head of a Bear" will sell in London on Thursday.

Article about Da Vinci "Bear" – NBC News

Auction page at Christies


Newer Pages
Older Pages
Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice - AMAZON Published by Watson-Guptill, 256 pages

Visiting Greece 2021



Original Page January 25, 2022

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