At The MET, The American Wing

 

The Toilers of the Sea

Albert Pinkham Ryder

Oil on Canvas

1885

Gulf Stream

Winslow Homer

Oil on Canvas 

1906

Winter, Monhegan Island

Rockwell Kent

Oil on Canvas 

1904

At the Met today looking at some of the most iconic American paintings in the collection that I have only seen as photographs since I was in undergraduate art school. 

In the Met literature on the painting, The Toilers of the Sea, it says that a sea-captain friend once observed that Ryder would study the moon on the Hudson River to capture "moonlight effects."  I like this, having just stood at Linden Terrace at the fort overlooking the Hudson.  Beautiful.

Drawing

 

Working on my next children’s book

Stay tuned!

New Painting

 

Forgotten Wind

Acrylic, Pencil, Ink and Organic Materials on Canvas

30” X 48”

2025

Selfie of me working on Forgotten Wind on site.  A really windy day in Erie, Colorado. Painting on the East Side Art Institute property.  The painting and easel both getting blown over numerous times despite adding anchoring weight. Various ground materials are now incorporated into the painting.