Jeremy Lipking keeps trying to wrap his head around the fact that he and more than 30 of his paintings are subjects of a retrospective at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. “Honestly,” he says, “when they asked me, I thought, ‘Have I been...
Set at the foot of Mount Saint Helena, high in the Mayacamas Mountains, Knights Valley forms a bridge between the adjacent Napa and Sonoma valleys. Remote and rural, graced by rolling hills and picturesque valley vistas, buffeted by weather and light, the beauty of this...
For the vast majority of architecture firms, landscape architecture is considered a complementary but separate practice, even in the event they have a landscape designer on staff. It’s the building that’s primary, and landscape is secondary, providing a view, color, or perhaps warmth to orthogonal,...
It’s rare that a homeowner buys a spectacular vineyard property in California’s Wine Country without hurrying to get a house sited, designed, and built as quickly as possible. But when Kim Jordan and Dick Cantwell purchased property in the Sonoma County town of Occidental, they...
In 1944, Frank Mechau’s painting, Tom Kenney Comes Home, was part of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and included in a catalogue for the show. When Mechau received the catalogue, he got on his horse and carried it six miles down the...
Livingston, Montana, is a place of contrasts. It’s a railroad town with a hint of grit, a crossroads where the road from Yellowstone meets the interstate, and the closest sizable town from Bozeman on the other side of a pass just high enough to cause...
When thinking of important American photographers and their iconic images, names like LA Huffman, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams come to mind. But did you know that many Indigenous people were making photographs at the same time? In the new book, In Light and Shadow:...
Jennifer Ghormley found printmaking by chance. She wanted to take a class in fine art photography at a local college, to expand her commercial photography skills, but those classes filled quickly and she never could get in. Printmaking, however, had some openings, so, why not?...
When Cynthia Downs was 45, she had an epiphany that changed the course of her life. Just days before she was scheduled to take the GMAT and apply to MBA programs, a sensation electrified her body like she was a passenger in a speeding, out-of-control...
In art, the term “negative space” refers to the area around the subject. In a still life featuring a bouquet of flowers, for example, the flowers and vase are the positive space and what surrounds it, the negative space. Woodworker Jerome Fleischman was intrigued by...