Agnes Martin by Annie Leibovitz

This is a portrait of painter Agnes Martin from the book,'Annie Leibovitz At Work'. In the book, Leibovitz describes Martin as a Buddhist, who believes that art is an interaction with the divine. She asked Martin what she does every morning in the studio, to which Martin answered "I sit here and wait to be inspired." This portrait shows Martin (and Leibovitz?) perhaps at that moment of inspiration.
I love that she tries to portray an inner experience with an exterior event.

Barbara DiLorenzo

Book dummy and original art for children's book by Barbara DiLorenzo of Ipswich, MA. Saw this today in the window of the Wavepaint Design and gallery in Ipswich, which Barbara runs.

Anita Kunz

Conceptual paintings by Anita Kunz that use metaphor, science, surreality, the figure, portraiture, exaggeration. Her work appears in Time, Rolling Stone, the New Yorker and she does a lot of personal work, too. Canadian.

Barbara Adrian

Barbara Adrian is an artist living and working in New York City. She is a Magical Realist, blending traditional, realist painting techniques with psychological and personal imagery.

She studied painting with Reginald Marsh in the 1950s, and is a contemporary of Isabel Bishop. She teaches at the Art Students League in New York.
Here is a link to a great article about her from American Artist Magazine.

Tanya Miller

Another artist I found on Google's Artist of the Day -- Tanya Miller, born in Russia, now living in Canada. I like her mixture of psychological elements, nature, and art history.

Georgia O'Keefe

I have two calendars of Georgia O'Keefe prints this year, one at work and one at home. I started looking at all of the images as self portraits. The ones with two flowers could be portraits of her and Alfred Stieglitz: two artists working alongside each other, at times one overshadowing one another.

The barns looked to me, too, to be portraits. Ends of Barns looks like a protective grouping, each building with only tiny windows to their interiors. The adobe church painting could be her inner life, the relationship she has with art, the relationship one has with the divine.

Cecilia Beaux

Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855-1942). A Little Girl (Fanny Travis Cochran), 1887. Oil on canvas. 36" x 29 3/16"



















Cecilia Beaux, Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker), 1898, Oil

Cecilia Beaux was an incredibly productive portrait painter whose work I love in part because she has great technique, and partly because her female subjects look smart and determined.