What art is in your home?

[Michaelshane]

New York worlds fair poster

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[BinkieBaumont]

A Cubist still life in a corner of the Dinning room

 

[Rick Blaine]

Cherokee Chief, Spring Frog (Tooan Tuh)


Over one end of the sofa hangs this Hand colored Lithograph from the McKenney and Hall Folio History of the Indian Tribes of North America with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits From the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington
Published: Philadelphia VOL I: 1837

Spring Frog was my fellow Tennessean, born near Lookout Mountain around 1754, he was a well known sportsman (NDN stick-ball), trapper and angler and was also said to be a valiant warrior. Well into his seventh decade Spring Frog had trailed for hundreds of miles a war party of Osage who had raided his village and then killed them all. His cabin still stands in a State park near Chattanooga. Thomas L. McKenney said of him "a generous hospitality; his friends were always welcome to his cheerful fireside, and the stranger, to use the figure of one of the noblest spirits of our land, 'never found the string of his latch drawn in.' " May that be said of us all.

 

[Unlucky Berman]

Some things from Mucha, one from Klimt, in another room is also a pic from Kandinsky. I like the art of the first half of the 20th century, esp. that what we call here Wiener Jugendstil and from my childhood in Weimar I have known what's called Bauhaus and so I also like the artists and architecture from that school.

 

[Warbaby]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!

Thanks, HungaryTom - my grandfather would have appreciated you compliments. My grandfather, Ira J. Smith, lived in western Pennsylvania and did most of his painting between 1905-1930. He passed away in 1965. He exhibited in shows in Pittsburgh, but refused to sell any of his paintings because he was painting purely for himself. I now have most of his work and have often thought of contacting some art museums to see if I can get him the recognition he deserves.

Here's another of my favorites - it's a large painting of the Monongahela river at night, the sky illuminated by the fires of the steel mills.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

I'm quite a fan of maps and I have a foil, sounds strange I know, version of a map from 1681, it bordered with various Greek gods and the seven wonders of the world. I'll take a picture and pop it up.

I've also got a plate from one of the Strand Sherlock Holmes volumes.

 

[DOUGLAS]

Absolutely stunning Warbaby. How wonderful it must be to be around such beauty.

 

[Spitfire]

This is a very late reply to your comment because I haven't been back to this thread for awhile.

My grandfather was a self-taught painter who lived in a little town in southwestern Pennsylvania. His name was Ira J. Smith and he did most of his paintings between 1910 and 1940. While he exhibited in shows in Pittsburgh, he always tagged his work as Not For Sale because he painted purely for himself and didn't want to part with any of his paintings. I really admire the purity of his art for that. He was also a very good photographer with a painter's eye for lighting and composition. Not satisfied with those accomplishments, he also taught himself violin making and completed 14 instruments in the 40s and early 50s. He worked full time all his life as a newspaper reporter and didn't retire until he was in his late 70s.

Needless to say, he is one of my great heroes and I am fortunate to have most of his paintings and six of his violins.

Wow - what a talented grandfather! Great paintings.:eusa_clap

 

[Warbaby]

Here are some more of Ira's paintings - these are little 8x10 oil sketches that were studies for larger paintings.

And this is Ira, sometime in the 1920s:

 

[Brinybay]

Just got this the other day at a "Second Hand" store. Or rather, their business name said "second hand", but it was really an antique store. Whatever. The pic is at an odd angle because the flash would reflect off the glass if it was photographed straight on:

Pan and the Nymphs
W. Bovgvereav 1873

 

[Ethan Bentley]

A little something by my light switch.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

I'm expecting the arrival of a portrait of "Suzy Solidor" any day now, as soon as it is re refamed I will post a photograph of said. in my gracious drawing room

Suzy on stage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay0xCvRzrTQ

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Thomas Cole "Voyage of Life" 1840

Childhood

Youth

Manhood

Old Age

 

[Warden]

My childrens mostly, all over the fridge and every single pin board

Harry

 

[volatile]

Ltd' Edition hand-numbered Screen-prints of:

Redemption - Alex Gross, 2006

The Origin of the Green Lantern - Alex Gross, 2001

Chauncey - Chris Conn Askew

BZG - Chris Conn Askew

All is Lost - Chris Conn Askew

The CC Askew ones are small, the Gross ones are huge.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Oh! Quite an "eyefull" could one explain what one is looking at?

 

[BinkieBaumont]

I love Art, but the Art I love most matches the curtains (drapes)

 

[volatile]

Oh! Quite an "eyefull" could one explain what one is looking at?

What ever do you mean?

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"its late, I'm tired and I realy didn't think a ship this big could pitch so much, i'm going to try and sleep"

 

[volatile]

I've got a poster with "girl in green" from Tamara de Lempicka

Which I hope to replace with a reproduction of this wonderful piece.

An art gallery near my work has a huge repro of this Lempicka piece, reduced from £1000 to under £200....

You cannot believe how tempted I am.