I came across this photo several weeks ago on the Library of Congress website. Around 1946, photographer C. M. Stieglitz took this picture of cartoonist Roberta MacDonald drawing while her 15-month-old daughter, Patricia, watched her. MacDonald was a cartoonist for…
At 3:30-ish on Wednesday afternoons, the storm door squeaks as I walk into my art teacher’s basement studio. Miss Judy always greets me with a smile and a friendly greeting when I arrive for my weekly painting class. I tie…
When Notgrass History gets together for our annual Christmas party, we divide into teams and create something very silly during a certain time limit, using stuff our fulfillment team uses to pack orders. This year we had a girls team…
The beautiful Thomas Moran painting and the other 62 paintings that James M. Cowan gave to the city of Nashville are the works of 57 American artists. The paintings date from 1765 to 1923. While in the gallery, I took…
One day last week I shared paintings by Edward Moran, a painter whose works I didn’t know until I came across his Life Saving Patrol on the Smithsonian Institution public domain image site. Here it is again. Life Saving Patrol by…
When I shared a quote from Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park recently, I searched for images of nighttime skies. During that search, I came across a beautiful painting by Edward Moran in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. I have included…
