MONDAY MUSE | Familiar Faces

People have been making portraits for thousands of years. Most early portraits were made to honor and to remember the dead.  By the 15th Century, people were having their portraits painted…

SHOW OPENING | The Art of Judith Peck

Judith Peck is a Washington, D.C., area allegorical figurative artist who paints about current issues using a variety of methods and experimental techniques. This in turn makes it possible for her…

MONDAY MUSE | Whistler’s Mother

Today’s Monday Muse is about one of the most important paintings by American born artist James Whistler. The piece, done in 1871, has come to be known as “Whistler’s Mother”,…

MONDAY MUSE | James Whistler

What’s it Worth? People often disagree wildly about the value of art. Vincent Van Gogh died in poverty, because no one would buy his paintings. Even his friends said that his paintings…

MONDAY MUSE | Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. He is most well known for his depictions of the American…

MONDAY MUSE | Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman was an American photographer whose work mainly focused on self-portraiture and possessed a haunting, ethereal quality. She was born in Denver, Colorado in 1958 to George and Betty…

MONDAY MUSE | Ophelia: Poetic Vision

The Pre-Raphaelites often painted scenes from books, especially concentrating on the Bible and Shakespeare. Ophelia, a famous painting by John Everett Millais, shows the death of Ophelia from Shakespeare’s play,…