Education: Self-taught.
Career path: My mother is a self-taught artist. When she was young, she wasn’t allowed to pursue art studies or careers as it was considered “unseemly” for a girl to do, so she trained to be a secretary instead. Once she was married, she bought an easel and brushes. I grew up surrounded by colors, the smell of mineral spirits, and paintings of horses, flowers and trees her favorite subjects.
I ended up following her example. I drew on paper as many children do, but I also leafed through the monographs of Da Vinci, Degas, Rembrandt and thousands of other artists in my family’s library. When I finished my compulsory education, with my mother’s support, I studied art. She made up for one of her greatest regrets with me, and I am grateful to her for doing that.
People remember Walt Whitman primarily as America’s national poet, but he was a journalist, too, and much of that work was published anonymously. University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers are working to lift that anonymity to provide a more complete picture of a man who wrote about issues that still resonate today. Funded by a three-year, nearly [.]
Kenneth Price uses Walt Whitman s life, writings, and government work to reevaluate the writer and the nation s capital. Drawing on an expanded Whitman corpus, including nearly 3,000 Whitman documents the author discovered at the National Archives, Price demonstrates that the power of Whitman s Civil War and Reconstruction writing more fully emerges from his intimate knowledge of the capital city, its bureaucracies, and its tumultuous postwar history. In this National Archives video, Walt Whitman Documents Discovered in the National Archives, Professor Price describes his remarkable discovery.
The Walt Whitman Archive, funded in part by the National Archives’ National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), is an electronic research and teaching tool that provides easy access to Whitman’s vast work that include fiction, notebooks, manuscript fragments, prose essays, letters, marginalia, and voluminous journalistic articles. The Whitman Archive is the most compreh
Telluride Gallery of Fine Art exhibits paintings and digital pigment prints by Ed Moses
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.- Saving the Best for Last, an exhibition of 24 paintings and six digital pigment prints by the late artist Ed Moses, opened at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Art December 15, 2020 through February 6, 2021. Online viewing is available at telluridegallery.com. This collection of work includes a group of his most recent acrylic paintings, as well as digital prints provided by Patricia Correia Projects. It is the only 2020 solo show of Ed Moses work.
Even in his 9th decade, Southern California native Ed Moses spent most days in his Venice studio. In one of his final interviews, he told Los Angeles Times reporter Deborah Vankin You caught me on a good day! Pointing to freshly painted canvases drying in the sun, he explained, These are all self-portraits. These paintings have history, action - scars and blemishes, scratches and imperfections. These are me. S