Tag Archives: Paintings

Lynn Burton’s Old West Visions on Canvas

Note: Subscribe to my newsletter and enter to win a beautiful art coffee table book>>> Watching Lynn Burton race up sandy West Texas slopes snapping his camera to record light and shadow values as reference for future paintings, snapping as … Continue reading →

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Art Center Information Presents Two Brothers Talking About Their Art

Here at Art Center Information, my artist brother, Lynn Burton, and I discuss some of our art. Richard: Lynn, you mentioned on our last conversation that you like to take photographs during old western movies while they are in motion.  … Continue reading →

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Gustave Courbet: An Uncompromising Artist

Not only was Gustave Courbet’s class-conscious art subject matter alien to critics, but his uncompromising and painting technique, evolved to treat rural themes, was mostly immortalizing the common, middle and laboring classes of his home town…people with whom he was … Continue reading →

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The Louvre-All The Paintings: The Next Best Thing To Being There

Please note: The book was given away and any reference to this book (The Louvre: All The Paintings) being given away no longer applies as of July 16, 2012. To see the selection of the winner, please click on the … Continue reading →

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Frederick Edwin Church: For a Period, the Highest Paid Living American Artist

In 1909, Frederic Church’s painting, The Heart of the Andes, sold to Margaret Dows, widow of David Dows, for $10,000.00.  At that time it was the highest amount ever paid a living American artist. In 1859, Church introduced the huge … Continue reading →

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Abstract Expressionism and Jackson Pollock

In the early 1950s, Jackson Pollock became the “darling” of the art scene in New York with his Abstract Expressionism paintings.  Some called him ‘Jack the Dripper’ because of his laying canvases on the floor and  dripping paint onto them … Continue reading →

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Dutch and Flemish Masterworks Exhibiting at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection will conclude a national tour at he Museum of Fine Arts Houston. This is one of the world’s most spectacular private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings—including … Continue reading →

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