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Portrait of Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler by Sargent


Howard Lyon

Last year I had the chance to visit the Smithsonian. What a wonderful collection of museums! The National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum art huge highlights for me. One of the many masterpieces in the collection is John Singer Sargent's painting of Elizabeth Chanler. Sargent imbued such a graceful confidence into this portrait. It was painted in 1893. I managed to get some really nice captures of it! Because of when it was…

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Justin Coro Kaufman

May 30, 2024 - Hey all, hope you’ve been enjoying spring. It’s been rainy as usual here but we’ve had some good stretches of good weather, which has been nice. Provided the opportunity to actually go outside and do a few plein air paintings. My friend Kellan hosts an annual plein air group show at giant robot in LA, and was kind enough to invite me to participate this year. I didn’t venture out too far, these are all from my yard, but it was nice to get outside and paint with acrylics for a change too. Here are the four pieces I made for the show. I started simple and tried not to overwork them. The show is awesome, lots of great stuff from a really talented group of artists. If you’re in the La area the show…

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