"Shy Look"

Stephen Scott Young, 2008

Adelson Galleries, NYC

“Roses”

John Singer Sargent

1886, Private Collection

“You can't do sketches enough.

Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.”

John Singer Sargent

“Conversation”

Camille Pissaro

1881, Oil on Canvas

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”   Camille Pissaro

Dorothy Barnard

John Singer Sargent

1885, Oil Study for

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

“Two little girls in a garden at twilight, lighting paper lanterns among the flowers from rose-tree to rose-tree.”

          John Singer Sargent

 

“Setting Sun and Fog”

Camille Pissaro

1891, Oil on Canvas

“Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis…. don’t be afraid of putting on colour…. paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.”

Camille Pissaro

   
        
Claude Monet,

"The Magpie"

1869  

 “This painting of a place in the countryside near Etretat, executed on the spot, uses very unusual pale, luminous colours.  The novelty and daring of Monet's approach explain the painting's rejection by the jury of the 1869 salon.”

Musee d’Orsay

Paris, France

Idle Hours

William Merritt Chase

1894

 

 

               

Quiet Moments

Dan McCaw

 

 
"It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment."

The Master Bedroom
Andrew Wyeth 
 

 

 

“Christina's Teapot”  

 Andrew Wyeth

“I can’t work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free."

~ Andrew Wyeth



"Oranges"
Dan McCaw

 

“Objects don't give you an emotion; you already contain that emotion.   An object just brings the emotion out. Art is the same way. It provides a reason for that thought, that mood, that feeling that exists within you to surface. It connects and awakens what part of us that we already possess."

 ~ Dan McCaw

Groundhog Day

Andrew Wyeth

1959

"That February day the sun’s rays caught the corner of the table that was set for dinner, awaiting the return of Mr. Keurner from a farm sale in Lancaster.”

~Andrew Wyeth

On the Terrasse

Auguste Renoir

1881, American Institute of Art

Chicago, IL

 

“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.”

~ Auguste Renoir

Christina's Bedroom
Andrew Wyeth
1947

Sliver of Light, Downtown

~Dan McCaw“

"Any subject can become a spring board for your imagination when you start to play the game of "What if?" In your mind, visualize an object and then ask, What if I exaggerate it? What if I manipulate, distort or change it? For example, what if I paint that red apple in shades of purple? Try different things. there are no wrong solutions - only what feels good to you and what doesn't appeal to you.”
~ Dan McCaw

 

Girl Dancing, 1906

Bessie Potter Vonnoh,

Wife of artist Robert Vonnoh.

Bronze statues

Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C

 

                                     

                                      Girl Reading

The Dance,1908

 

A Special Book

~Dan McCaw

Morris and Whiteside Galleries Hilton Head, SC

“Good paintings are like friends,” he has said, “they encourage you to do more, to search, to experiment and to grow.”

Moon Madness

Andrew Wyeth
1982

“I put a lot of things into my work which are very personal to me. So how can the public feel these things? I think most people get to my work through the back door. They’re attracted by the realism and they sense the emotion and the abstraction — and eventually, I hope, they get their own powerful emotion.” ~Andrew Wyeth, New York Times, January 16, 2009

 

Landscape Echoes

Jan Blencoe

2008

Squall

Andrew Wyeth

1986

“Nature is not lyrical and nice; behind the peace is violence."

~ Andrew Wyeth 

Ancient Friends
Unknown Artist
2003

First Waves

Dan McCaw

“What's essential, I think, is that you have to be unafraid to grow. Do not fear change; be afraid of never changing.”

~ Dan McCaw



Girl with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer

1666

Mauritshuis, The Hague

 

Susan on a Balcony Holding a Dog
Mary Cassatt
1883
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C


“I have touched with a sense of art some people – they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?”

~Mary Cassatt

Harmony in White

Dan McCaw

“Broadening your perceptions creates choices, and choices create individuality. When we have options, we can then pick what best appeals to us at the time. But don't expect to develop these abilities overnight. This way of thinking is part of a lifelong journey of self-discovery.”
~ Dan McCaw

                                            

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

Mary Cassatt

1871

"I doubt if you know the effort it is to paint! The concentration it requires, to compose your picture, the difficulty of posing the models, of choosing the color scheme, of expressing the sentiment and telling your story! The trying and trying again and again and oh, the failures, when you have to begin all over again! The long months spent in effort upon effort, making sketch after sketch. Oh, my dear! No one but those who have painted a picture know what it costs in time and strength!"

"After a time, you get keyed up and it 'goes', you paint quickly and do more in a few weeks than in the preceding weary months. When I am en train, nothing can stop me and it seems easy to paint, but I know very well it is the result of my previous efforts."

~ Mary Cassatt

Quotation reprinted from, Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector, by Louisine W. Havemeyer.

The Granary
Andrew Wyeth
1961

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” 

~Andrew Wyeth