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Linos: #5 through 15

introduction In June of 2023 I posted the ART I MAKE blog...

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Gustav Wolf: Confessio

INTRoduction Ever since 2015 when the Baltimore Museum of Art acquired a...

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Justin Remo’s Big Finale

INTRODUCTION As introduced in my previous ART I SEE post, The Last...

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Schatz’s “Der Ackermann und der Tod” woodcuts

Introduction For a collector of prints done in series–whether compiled as a...

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Justin Remo Exits Dogwater Beach

Introduction What began as the need for a student to care for...

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Jerome Clock mystery solved

Kitchen clock search When we started looking for a 19th-century 8-day shelf...

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Baltimore Chairs: Plain painted wheelbacks

Introduction I thought my saga with Baltimore fancy chairs ended in 2021...

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Goethe & Graf: Totentanz

INTRODUCTION While I’ve had this book of 28 etchings by German artist...

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Gan Kolski: His End is My Beginning

Introduction: suicide (From the pink tab on the left page) “The next...

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Isac Friedlander: Coney Island

Introduction If only Jane Haslem (1934-2020) had produced a catalogue raisonné on...

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Linocuts: Making of Athena

Introduction I wouldn’t have created circular linoleum cuts had I not been...

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Anne Desmet: Personal Tower of Babel

Introduction If Anne Desmet, one of the most accomplished contemporary wood engravers...

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Planets Come to Italy

From Skies To Planets Planets seem to follow me wherever I go....

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Arieh Allweil’s IDF Haggadah

Introduction In many ways artist Arieh Allweil (1901-1967) created the IDF Passover Haggadah (1950)...

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Allweil: Independence Haggadah

INTRODUCTION When I began working with the daughters of artist Arieh Allweil...

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