A Quick Trip Downtown

A stroll in the West Village yesterday turned up some beautiful vines that added life to the more traditional urban setting. The palette to took our minds up to skies as we took flight with the great owl, and then grounded ourselves far away in the every soothing land of Wyeth.

Andrew Wyeth

Anna-Willi Highfield, Owl Perched, 2010

West Village, NYC

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Great Gray Snow Owl via Taking Flight

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Andrew Wyeth

Our Precisionist NY

Yesterday's rainy weather in NYC was perfect for noticing the geometries and symmetry of the buildings around us. Inspired, we turned to Precisionists Ralston Crawford and Charles Demuth to join our celebration of man-made wonders.

Chiaroscuro of iron and mortar

Charles Demuth, End of the Parade: Coatesville, PA at The National Gallery

Fire escapes: the epitome of utilitarian beauty

Charles Demuth, Modern Conveniences via Museum Syndicate

In the West Village

Charles Demuth, Business via The Art Institute of Chicago

West Village windows with sun ray facade

Ralston Crawford, Grain Elevators from the Bridge via The AMICA Library

Yellow brick and aqua windows- abandoned warehouse

Ralston Crawford, Flour Mill #2 at Christie's

Spring in Our Step

A few weeks ago, before the last of the snow melted..

New England has bloomed in the last few weeks. While the trees don their leaves and the flowers begin to bloom, the greenest grass carpets the hills. We have a sneaky suspicion the cows are happier about this than anyone or anything else....no more slogging around in the snow or mud. So, here's to a greener New England, cleaner cows and Spring.

A silo on a hill above Alstead, NH

Grant Wood, Spring Plowing via Renzodionigi's Flickr page

How now...

Grant Wood, Boy Milking Cow via Museum syndicate

Tools on a barn

Unity, New Hamshire

Minimal

Eva Hesse, Ingeminate

We sometimes shoot objects and textures without context- only because they appeal to us in he most basic level. A curve of a wire, the order of a grid or the adjacency of lines trigger the same reaction as minimalist works do...they are anything, everything and nothing.

Power lines on our house, New Hampshire

Eva Hesse, Untitled at PS1 MOMA

Eva Hesse, no title at Moma

Bleached ladybug remains on our screen

Agnes Martin, Homage to Greece (detail) at Christie's

Agnes Martin, Homage to Greece

Sean Scully, Angel

Gatoring shutters on the shed, New Hampshire

Callum Innes, Exposed Painting Cinnabar Green

Old fence in the garden

Eva Hesse, Metronomic Irregularity 1 via The Brooklyn Museum

It's Elementary

Skittles at R Gallery

Searching Ebay in the Netherlands, we came across a Renate Muller skittle. If your not familiar with Muller (we can't find the umlaut on the computer), she used open weave jute and leather to make therapeutic toys for physically challenged children in the 60's. The use of form and material are elegant and sparse....which brought Georgia Hayes and Donald Baechler's work to mind. There is something innately attractive about the use of paired-down representation, and what we love about folk is what is brilliantly capitalized upon in the work of these artists. See for yourself:

Muller skittle on Ebay

Donald Baechler, Realists Playing Together via Bombsite

Georgia Hayes, Birthday with Midwives

Muller Goose at Quittenbaum Kunstauktionen via Liveauctioneers

Donald Baechler, Abstract Painting with Bird (Ostrich)

Muller Seal via Handmade Charlotte

Georgia Hayes, Birthday with Midwives

Muller Rhino

Muller Hippo and Rhino via Styleforum

Georgia Hayes, Hettina the Healer from Hayes' Flickr photostream

A Blank Canvas

One of the things we love about a crisp white room is the ability to instantly transform the palette with the slightest hint of color. In spring, we love to play with accents using fresh cut flowers, bringing the outside in.

Rich violet tones that we found on Mother's Day

via Design Crisis

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Soft pinks, often found right outside the house

via Chantal Hughes

A green base always feels fresh and clean

via parehe

Bold fuchia's

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