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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Andrew Wyeth 'The Trammel' 1985
Image is from Antiques Roadshow. The man purchased the painting at $75,000. Appraiser estimate was $450,000. The trammel is a type of hook that suspends pots over flames retrofitted here as a hat rack. The hat here is fur and the appraiser noted the difficulty of using watercolor to capture the texture of fur. Wyeth died in January, 2009, so who knows how high it will go before being acquired by a museum.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Under The Jacaranda Tree 1903
R. Godfrey Rivers, the artist, is shown with his future wife having tea in the Brisbane Botanic Garden. Planted in 1864, it had to be the first jacaranda grown in Australia. It was destroyed by a cyclone in 1979. I saw the work for myself during my college years.
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