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My paintings comment on the melancholy beauty found in relics of our industrial past. — Anna Held Audette   Connecticut artist Anna Held Audette [1938–2013] discerned loveliness in decline, creating paintings of the disused factories, machines, and scrapyards that are our modern ruins. Her works attest to America’s ascendance and decline as a manufacturing titan....

Introduction Norman Gulamerian made ground-breaking innovations in several different art-related pursuits — a combination unmatched in American art history. His body of heretofore unseen paintings assert that he was one of the most innovative masters of Figurative Expressionism during the last half of the 20th century. He was also exceptional because his commitment to developing...

  A Science of Life: The Return of Walter Quirt — by Frederick Holmes Introduction In the telling of the story of 20th century Modern Art in America, we’ve all become familiar to varying degrees, of the same approximately twenty or so artists who comprise the overwhelming majority of the narrative—Pollock, Motherwell, DeKooning, Gorky, Rothko,...

  Unwrapping the Mystery of New York’s Wrapper   Rescuing a Lifetime of Work Jared Whipple never intended to become an art detective. That new episode was triggered by a phone call on September 22nd, 2017, from a friend who ran a trash removal company.  The contractor said he was cleaning out an old barn...

The Cosmic Visions of Ed Nelson “The process that I use is taken from the Scriptures and is not known by man on this earth.” Traveling southeast of Portland, Oregon, it takes less than an hour to reach the foothills of the Cascade Mountain range and Mount Hood National Forest. With good directions, you may...

Introduction In 1987, Kurt Vonnegut published Bluebeard: The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988), a novel about an eccentric painter whose life bears an astonishing resemblance to Arthur Pinajian, the real-life artist who is the subject of this book. Both Pinajian and Karabekian, also known as Bluebeard, were Armenian Americans, raised by parents who survived the...