Never the Same Love Twice

Kitagawa Utamaro

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Edgar Degas

Claude Monet: Photo-Portrait of the Artist

Claude Monet

Jules B. Dahlager Painting: A Golden Summer Day in Beautiful Behm Canal

Jules B. Dahlager

Jules B. Dahlager

Jules B. Dahlager

Jules B. Dahlager

Here's one that got away -- a small 6" x 8" oil painting on masonite board by renowned Alaskan artist Jules Bernard Dahlager of Behm Canal near Ketchikan, Alaska. The painting is signed and dated in the lower left "Jules '45" in red oil paint, and bears the printed artist label on reverse with Dahlager's ink signature, reading: "A GOLDEN SUMMER DAY/ In Beautiful Behm Canal Near/ Ketchikan, Alaska/   Painting by/ Jules B. Dahlager [artist signature]." The painting is housed in its original gold gilt Arts and Crafts-style carved frame, likely by Seattle-based framemaker Lloyd Jensen.  

John Singer Sargent Watercolors

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent’s approach to watercolor was unconventional. Going beyond turn-of-the-century standards for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow practitioners alike. One reviewer of an exhibition in London proclaimed him “an eagle in a dove-cote”; another called his work “swagger” watercolors. For Sargent, however, the watercolors were not so much about swagger as about a renewed and liberated approach to painting. In watercolor, his vision became more personal and his works more interconnected, as he considered the way one image -- often of a friend or favorite place -- enhanced another. Sargent held only two major watercolor exhibitions in the United States during his lifetime. The contents of the first, in 1909, were purchased in their entirety by the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The paintings exhibited in the other, in 1912, were scooped up by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 

John Singer Sargent Watercolors reunites nearly 100 works from these collections for the first time, arranging them by themes and subjects: sunlight on stone, figures reclining on grass, patterns of light and shadow. Enhanced by biographical and technical essays, and lavishly illustrated with 175 color reproductions, this publication introduces readers to the full sweep of Sargent’s accomplishments in this medium, in works that delight the eye as well as challenge our understanding of this prodigiously gifted artist.

The international art star of the Gilded Age, John Singer Sargent(1856–1925) was born in Italy to American parents, trained in Paris and worked on both sides of the Atlantic. Sargent is best known for his dramatic and stylish portraits, but he was equally active as a landscapist, muralist, and watercolor painter. His dynamic and boldly conceived watercolors, created during travels to Tuscan gardens, Alpine retreats, Venetian canals and Bedouin encampments, record unusual motifs that caught his incisive eye.

Edouard Manet: The Last Flowers

 Edouard Manet

 Edouard Manet

 Edouard Manet

 Edouard Manet

 Edouard Manet

 Edouard Manet

In the winter of 1880 Edouard Manet, then 49, was dying. In the last months of his life he funneled his waning energy into a series of remarkable still lifes -- 16 small paintings of flowers -- the  poignant last glow of a brilliant artistic flame. 

Marvin D. Mangus Paintings from the Gil Mull Collection

Born in Illinois, Gil Mull came to Alaska in 1961 as a geologist working for Atlantic Richfield Corporation. Having been involved in early oil exploration on the North Slope and doing extensive geological mapping in the Brooks Range, Gil is an expert on Alaska's northern geologic history. In addition to working for the oil industry, Gil also worked for the US Geological Survey and the State of Alaska, Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Division of Oil and Gas. He retired in 2003, and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Marvin Mangus. Photo by Gil Mull,

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Marvin Mangus

Paradise Lost: Paul Gauguin Woodcuts

The Last Flowers of Manet