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Diners and their dogs add to the colorful view at local eatery on Manhattan’s East Side. SOLD Copyright
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Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
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Polish Eagle Crest t shirt
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Im a drinker not a fighter t shirt.
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I was crossing the street in the Village in NYC and I decided to shoot this scene as I was crossing. I played with the selective coloring to give it a more eye-catching feel. It sort of inspires a story…as I look into it more closely now…wondering about the lives of these two women. It’s like one of those ‘passing ships in the day’ sort of photos. :) Sometimes we never notice who we brush shoulders with…and there may be something MORE there.
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Do you love new York City? Then you’re a Gothamist! Washington Irving first gave New York city this nicknane in his book lampooning New York culture & politics around 1807. A great look for an urban hip Tee style!
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This image depicts a battered woman with seemingly doubtful fears as she looks over the city
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Tools: The Gimp 2.2 Inkscape 0.46 Font: / Tramyad by Protofont
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Fine Art Candid Street Images. ”... tells wonderful stories …”
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Mural commemorating the 1908 Triangle fire in NY: ” 129 women who were locked in the factory by their boss, died when a fire broke out” Orgosolo Sardinia Italy
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My version of tourists in Central Park, NYC. / And yes…this was taken in Central Park, NYC, too. :)
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Watching people in Union Square Park, New York City, after spending some time in Filene’s Basement. Pentax K10D, Sigma 17-70mm. Andy Ferguson.
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The design on the tshirt features an illustration of a Betty Boop style girl wearing a Manhattan skyline patterned dress with a cut-out of the Chrysler building in the background.
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Tools: The Gimp 2.2 Inkscape 0.46 Font: / Tramyad by Protofont
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women passing time and enjoying morning sunshine in Brighton Beach, on a boardwalk.
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I’m just transferring this t-shirt design here from my other RB portfolio. This t-shirt was designed using my watercolor and ink painting of the same title. Inspired by girlhood dreams of becoming a broadway dancer and singer. :)
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Tara Betts and I at the first Chicago book release party for “ARC & HUE” at Katerina’s. The book features my painting, “Gathering Series: Untitled #4,” on the cover. The event was recorded by Chicago Public Radio, NPR. Tara is wearing a Cosmic Angel t-shirt by Makeba Kedem-DuBose that is offered exclusively on Redbubble.
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Two girls holding ARC & HUE by Tara Betts at the official Chicago book release party at the Silver Room in Wicker Park. Makeba Kedem-DuBose’s “Gathering Series: Untitled #4” on cover design.
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