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Horses, Wild Horse, Black and White Horse Photography-Prancing Peter “As I walked out of my hotel room early in the morning, I was g...

Longhorn Photography, Black and White Prints, Animal Photography-Stormy Stella ABOUT THIS PIECE: This extra large photo titled "Stormy Stella" w...

Extra Large Photo, Black and White Prints, Animal Photography-Pure Bliss “Arriving at a certain place with the most southern organic garden was a delightful surprise. The setting it...

Black and White Prints, Animal Photography, Black & White Photo-Dusty Dale ABOUT THIS PIECE: This beautiful black and white photo named "Dusty Dale" was part of a landscape series ...

Horse Collection, Black and White Prints-Prancing Peter,Shoe Store & Mop Head “As I walked out of my hotel room early in the morning, I was greeted b...

Black and White Photography, Animal Prints, Animal Photography-Woolly Wlifred ABOUT THIS PIECE: This black white photograph titled "Woolly Wilfred" was part of a photography landsc...

Horse Art, Horse Photography, Animal Prints-Horse's Flock 0225 ABOUT THIS PIECE: This piece of horse art named "Horse's Flock 0225" was part of a landscape...

Animal Prints, Landscape Photography, Water Photography-Floating Through Life ABOUT THIS PIECE: This art photography piece named "Floating Through ...

Animals, Wild Animals, Zebra, Zebra Photography, Zebra Prints-Harold ABOUT THIS PIECE: This Zebra photo was taken at a Zebra sanctuary. Each species of z...

Wild Horse, Colored Horse Photography, Horse Fine Art Prints, Horses-Bernie ABOUT THIS PIECE: "Bernie" was part of a landscape series featuring horses. These Horse Pictures...

Horses, Wild Horse, Colored Horse Photography-Contemplative Conrad 023 ABOUT THIS PIECE: "Contemplative Conrad 023" was part of a landscape series featuring horses. These Horse Pictures...

Horse photography, Black and White Photography, Horses-Stammering Stallion A B O U T T H I S P I E C E : ""Stammering Stallion"" was part of a Black and White Photography landscap...

Horse photography, Black & White Horse Photography, Horses-Black and Equwhite 0241 ABOUT THIS PIECE: "Black and Equwhite 0241" was part of a Black and White Photography landscape s...

Ted Blaylock (b. 1946) "Nest Builder III" 1986 Print Ed. 586/950 Signed and Numbered Ted Blaylock opened his own art studio and gallery in Collinsville, IL in 1969. He eventually mo...

Jamie Wyeth "Herring Gulls" 1978 Color Lithograph Signed Lower Right Numbered Lower Left 149/300 Born in 1946, James Browning Wyeth came of age when the meaning of patriotism was clouded by the traumas of the Vietnam War and the scandals of Watergate. Working in an era of turmoil and questioning of governmental authority, he did art that encompassed both marching off to war and marching in protest. One of James's early masterworks, Draft Age (1965) depicts a childhood friend as a defiant Vietnam-era teenager resplendent in dark sunglasses and black leather jacket in a suitably insouciant pose. Two years later Wyeth painstakingly composed a haunting, posthumous Portrait of President John F. Kennedy (1967) that seems to catch the martyred Chief Executive in a moment of agonized indecision. As Wyeth Center curator Lauren Raye Smith points out, Wyeth "did not deify the slain president, [but] on the contrary made him seem almost too human." Based on hours of study and sketching of JFK's brothers Robert and Edward - documented by insightful studies in the exhibition - the final, pensive portrait seemed too realistic to family members and friends. "His brother Robert," writes Smith in the exhibition catalogue, "reportedly felt uneasy about this depiction, and said it reminded him of the President during the Bay of Pigs invasion." In spite of these misgivings, James's JFK likeness has been reproduced frequently and is one of the highlights of this show. The poignancy, appeal and perceptiveness of this portrait, painted when the youngest Wyeth was 21 years old, makes one wish he would do more portraits of important public figures. James himself feels he is at his best painting people he knows well, as exemplified by his vibrant Portrait of Jean Kennedy Smith (1972), which captures the vitality of the slain President's handsome sister. He did paint a portrait of Jimmy Carter for the January 1977 man-of-the-year cover of Time magazine, showing the casually dressed President-elect as a straightforward character posed under a flag-draped water tower next to the family peanut plant in Plains, Ga. James recalls that Carter had one Secret Service agent guarding him as he posed outdoors, a far cry from the protection our Chief Executives require today. As a participating artist in the "Eyewitness to Space" program organized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art in the late 1960s, Wyeth deftly recorded in a series of watercolors his eyewitness observations of dramatic spacecraft launchings and more mundane scenes associated with the space program. Commissioned by Harper's Magazine to cover the 1974 congressional hearings and trials of Watergate figures, James Wyeth executed a series of perceptive and now evocative sketches that recall those dark chapters in our history. Memorable images include a scowling John Ehrlichman, a hollow-eyed Bob Haldeman, an owlish Charles Colson, a focused Congressman Peter Rodino, a grim visaged Father/ Congressman Robert Drinan, and vignettes of the press and various courtroom activities. An 11-by-14-inch pencil sketch of the unflappable Judge John Sirica is especially well done. These "images are powerful as historical records," observes Smith, "and as lyrically journalistic impressions of events that changed the nation forever." Wyeth's sketch of early-morning crowds lined up outside the Supreme Court building hoping to hear the Watergate case, with the ubiquitous TV cameramen looking on, is reminiscent of recent scenes as the high court grappled with the Bush-Gore contest. The Wyeth family penchant for whimsy and enigmatic images is evident in Islanders (1990), showing two of James's friends, wearing goofy hats, sitting on the porch of a small Monhegan Island (Me.) cottage draped with a large American flag. Mixing the serious symbolism of Old Glory with the irreverent appearance of the two men, James has created a puzzling but interesting composition. Painting White House...

Ed. 1/50 Color engraved etching by Bjorn Skaarup of a bald eagle.

In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez wrote of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintin...