Breathtaking

Gehard Demetz woodcarving

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Galerie Half interior

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Sparrow

Looking to shoot some "Spring is Coming" photos yesterday, we happened upon a little sparrow at the playground and a group silhouetted in the branches of a tree. Inspired by what we shot, here's what we found:

Our little sparrow on a playground in the West Village

Francesca Woodman, Untitled bird study

Kate D. MacDowell, Sparrow

Sparrow egg illustration via BioOne

Kate D. MacDowell, Breaking via Abduzeedo

Our silhouetted birds in a tree

Kate D. MacDowell, Communicable

Color, Black & White and Other Things in Vogue

During our search on Marisol Escobar this weekend, we ran into some images of vintage Vogue covers from the '20's and '30's. We loved the thought of fashion images represented through drawing rather than today's high gloss photography. Today we pair two of our favorite covers with other representative art that is also "in vogue."

Cover of Vogue, April, 1930

Sybil Andrews linocut, 1953

Portrait of Martha Graham, Marisol Escobar 1981

The Little Black Dress Goes Yellow cover of Vogue, 1928

Dorrit Black linocut from the National Australian Gallery Collection

Fish Dream brooch by Kiff Siemmons 1993 at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Naturally Modern

One of our new favorite acquisitions is a modernist resin bust signed, Minaux. Both grotesque and pleasing, the sculptor reduced the human head to its most basic, abstracted form. In taking away almost all individual features, he echoes all organic matter...common shapes, common themes in nature.

Resin Sculpture, Andres Minaux

River rocks with water pools, NH

Detail of a monumental pottery sculpture we recently purchased

Water on the kitchen sink, midday

Wired

While gathering inspiration for our friend Julie's new bakery, we found a bunch of vintage kitchen utensils, seemingly shaped by a single piece of wire. The flow and movement of these utilitarian pieces made them feel like works of art, and immediately brought to mind the early works of Alexander Calder--drawings and wire sculpture made from a single line. "Stick figures" never looked so good...

Pair of wirework sculpture by Fredrick Weinberg

David Hughes, New Yorker 2006

Vintage kitchen utensil found in Montpelier, VT

Wirework sculpture of Josephine Baker by Alexander Calder

David Hughes, Tales From Gizzard's Grill

Wireworks face by Alexander Calder

While We're on the Subject...

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There are so many sensational artists to be found on the Archie Bray Foundation site. Anne Drew Potter continues to excite us, so we thought we'd share a few of her works...

I Just Can't see in Black and White, SoFa Gallery

I Just Can't See in Black and White (detail)

Nena and Chique, UNT Installation View

Nena

Physicality in Sculpture: Classical and Current

We were astounded by the physicality of the Roman horse head sculpture we stumbled upon the other night at Rogue Classicism. Every inch describes a muscular, powerful force in a style that's so realistic, it's almost stylized. Not surprisingly, we loved it, and were reminded of a favorite sculptor of ours, Beth Cavener Stichter. She too has the seemingly innate gift of capturing fluid, liquid-like movement in her realistic animal sculptures. Of course, there's much more than the obvious virtuosity of the sculpture, see for yourself...

Beth Cavener Stichter, Breathe

Beth Cavener Stichter, Cornered Rabbit

Roman Funerary Monument via Ian W. Scott's Flickr Stream

Beth Cavener Stichter, Please

Beth Cavener Stichter, I'll Not Tell

Woody Neutrals

Clara Carvajal sculpture

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Vintage steering wheel on stand at home in NH

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Art Deco Masterpieces, on View Daily

No matter how long we live in New York, there are certain sights that always mesmerize us; the Boat Pond in Central Park, Carnegie Hall...the list is endless. And one of the favorites is Rockefeller Center. Just running an errand down 5th Avenue the other day, we got caught up in the architectural and sculptural integrity of the buildings. Here's what we found...