Black beauty
Dear Artist, Renoir declared, “I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours…
Browsing: robert genn letter
Captain Otto’s Cello
Dear Artist, Yesterday, the painter and musician Guttorn Otto visited my studio. Born in Poland…
The blessing
Dear Artist, It’s pretty hard to describe something when you can’t put your finger exactly…
Figuring it out
Dear Artist, Stephan Stephansson was born in Iceland in 1853 where his formal education lasted…
White on white
Dear Artist, In 1862 James McNeill Whistler painted Symphony in White, No.1: The White Girl.…
The art of matching
Dear Artist, There’s a marvelous painting by John Singer Sargent called The Artist in his…
The story of red
Dear Artist, Cochineal is a red dyestuff extracted from the blood of a beetle parasite…
Recovery
Dear Artist, A player breaks away, speeds down the ice, then, in a confused dust-up,…
Ultramarine Blue
Dear Artist, The original ultramarine blue was made from the semiprecious stone lapis lazuli. Processes…
Keeping records
Dear Artist, Naturally, because of my extreme incompetence at keeping records, I’m fascinated with the…