Japanese Brush Paintings and Screens

My friends and I were privileged to be guided through the exhibit of 18th C. Japanese brush paintings and screens by our erudite colleague, who is a former curator with LACMA.  http://www.lacma.org/

 Suzuki Kiitsu, EGRET AND WILLOW,  two-panel screen; ink and color on silk 

 Nagasawa Rosetsu, BULL AND ELEPHANT,  pair of six-panel screens; ink and gold wash on paper 

 Attributed to Kitagawa Kikumaro (Tsukimaro), TWO BEAUTIES, hanging scroll; ink and color on paper (a detail)  

 Katsu Jagyoku, CROWS AND PLUM TREE , RABBITS AND PINE TREES IN SNOW, 1774, painted panel screens; ink and white pigment on paper 

Ito Jakucho, CRANES, pair of six panels; ink on paper 

Sea Lily

The Sea Lily flower shop at Trancas Canyon in Malibu opened in it's new location just in time for Spring.

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"

"My Beloved World"

Brilliant and inspiring...

Landscape Paintings at Palm Springs Art Museum

Fritz Scholder, UNTITLED (landscape with adobe), n.d., acrylic on canvas 

William Wendt, CREEPING SHADOWS, n.d., oil on canvas 

Thomas Moran, GRAND CANYON (mist in the canyon), 1915, oil on canvas 

Ralph Lauren in Malibu

I love the peaking in the window to see the new styles and their lovely garden.  

Malibu Garden Center Reopens

Our garden center is back, just in time for Spring.  

Alexander Calder at LACMA

The exquisite sculptures at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art were made even more so by the exhibition design of Frank Gehry.  

http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/calder-and-abstraction-avant-garde-iconic

Glass Art at Palm Springs Art Museum

 Karen LaMonte, PIANISTS DRESS IMPRESSION, 2005, cast glass 

Dante LaMonte, GREEN WITH WHITE DOT MOSAICS, 2007, blown glass 

Tea and Morphine Exhibit

Entire exhibits of prints are rare.  And, even more rare, is this subject matter.  This exhibit is at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, CA.  .http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/245  

Eugene Grasset, "Morphinomane (morphine addict)" 1897, color lithograph 

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, "Debauche (the debaucher)", 1896, color lithograph 

George de Feure, "L'Huitre Preferee (the favorite oyster)", circa 1800, color lithograph 

James Tissot "Ces dames des chars o hippodrome (the ladies of the chariots at the hippodrome)" 1885-8t, Drypoint 

William Nicholson, "Sarah Bernhardt, from 12 portraits (a detail)", 1899, color lithograph 

LACMA Celebrates "The Wrap Dress"

Forty years ago, Diane Von Fustenberg designed the first wrap dresses in her own cunning prints in vivid colors.  

The Los Angeles County Museum of art has an exhibit celebrating the popularity of that design to this day.  http://www.dvf.com/wrap40/ 

Like many women, I can remember my first wrap dress.  It was a dusty purple.  I lived in Pittsburgh.  The time was the late 1970's.  And, I felt like a million bucks in it.  

Acoma Pottery

Seeing the beautiful art of the American Indian culture in Palm Springs is always a must for me.

www.psmuseum.org/‎

Acoma Pueblo signed "J.J.," Polychrome Jar. ca. 1930, ceramic, polychrome 4-color with black, red and ochre on white  

Acoma Pueblo, Water Jar, ca. 1900, black-on-white glazed ceramic 

The Rains Came

The predicted rains came.  Though it is much needed,  we will lose some of these blooms.