doodles.

Quack.

trees and fish

Don't worry, it's just water.

Early American gravestones (1700s)

On out way up to Maine to visit Jon at the end of July, Jeremy and I made an unexpected stop in the town of Bennington, Vermont, where we happened upon an old chuch and cemetery. Little did we know that we would be looking at the graves of Revolutionary war soliders.

Early American gravestones are considered one of the first forms of American folk art and have a rather distinct look, tall and thin, and are riddled with motifes of angles, arrow, birds, trees, hour-glasses, skulls and winged faces, which are thought to be representative to the one that is buried there. Pretty col, huh?

Colors of Maine

photos taken in July 2010 on a crap digital camera - seriously, don't buy a Kodak EasyShare Z915, you'll hate it from day one.

Art Show

John Wilde (1919-2006)

Wisconsin Wildeworld (1953-55). Milwaukee Art Museum collection.

Wildeworld Revisited (1995). Milwaukee Art Museum collection.

Today I went to the Milwaukee Art Museum with our friend Laura. It was great! It's a amazing building, really cool exhibits, plus today we didn't have to pay to get in. Yes, you heard me, it was FREE. Every first Thursday of the month is sponsored by Target and therefor free to the public from 10am-8pm, so no excuses not to go check it out! Anyway, I was hoping to find at least one famous Wisconsin artist who would catch my eye, and I did: John Wilde.

One of the most influential artists from Wisconsin, John Wilde was a quiet leader in the contemporary art world. As a leader in the American surrealist movement known as Magic Realism, John Wilde stands out with his wonderful representation of Midwestern oddness and Renaissance perfectionism. Wilde was one of the great draftsmen of our time. He pushed formal realism into the bizarre world of the unconscious and personally intimate.

Over 100 paintings and drawings by the artist are included in the collections of numerous museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Art, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, WI, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. (http://www.toryfolliard.com/painting/John-Wilde.shtml)

For more info please visit http://www.sullivangoss.com/John_Wilde/

Here Goes Nothin'

Owl and Duck