Mar 24, 2022 | Tabloid art history
There have been a lot of images of Picasso’s Guernica lately, and sadly for good reason as we see images of bombing raids over Ukrainian cities. As an art history professor, I have been thinking of other paintings that have historically depicted war. Here are...
Jul 26, 2021 | Tabloid art history
Walk into any gothic cathedral and proceed down the central isle. Now, stop at the transept-the place where the isle meets the side isles and forms a cross-and glance right or left. What you will see is a stained glass window soaring above your head, allowing in a...
Jun 29, 2021 | Tabloid art history
These paintings were commissioned by a construction company a few years ago. Each “tile” showcases one of their construction projects. I just loved working on this project. I would visit the construction site, darn a hard hat, take lots of photos and then...
Feb 11, 2021 | Tabloid art history, Upcoming events
For a small town, Topsfield, MA. is home to a lovely library with an impressive art collection, much of it purchased through the Gould fund (Robert Gould Shaw was the captain of the Massachusetts 54th all-Negro regiment during the Civil War made famous in the movie...
Feb 4, 2021 | Tabloid art history, Upcoming events
A PDF of the slides from this lecture are available via the download button. Walker Hancock Lecture PDFDownload Print of Gethsemane Garden available in print gallery. Sign up for my mailing list and receive updates about future lectures, new artwork, and...
Jan 4, 2021 | Tabloid art history
As a papermaker who uses cotton linters in my artwork, I need to address a topic that is often overlooked in our community. That topic concerns the historical connection between slavery in America, cotton production, and the design of the cotton gin itself. The...
