Americana art

How did artists like Norman Rockwell, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, and others create the believable unique faces that can tell a whole story by themselves? In a magazine cover, like those by Rockwell and Stevan Dohanos, the image, with its setting and, most of all, its characters, must convey an anecdote without any help from words. So each face must be carefully crafted to do its part in creating the drama⸺or comedy.

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Grant Wood painted this portrait the way a theater director puts on a show. First he discovered the setting. Wood saw the house, now famous for inspiring American Gothic, in a small Iowa town and knew it had to be in a painting. Then he cast his sister and dentist to play the two roles. Many presume them farmer and daughter. But that’s never been nailed down. In fact, the painter left it ambiguous on purpose. Learn more with a click to LadyKflo’s Art Blog. #americangothic #grantwood #region

Hi everyone! Welcome to day 2 of our Jingle Jangle Spurs Event! I love Christmas. And I love western art. Merge the two and what do you get? Well, in my opinion, Jack Sorenson! Jack Sorenson’s western artwork is just wonderful. He’s one of my favorite artists, and you’ve probably seen his artwork on ... Read more

Mary Singleton / LANG Folk Art / October 2018

Celebrate the holidays with Mary Ann's Christmas, Halloween and Fourth of July folk art canvases and prints.

Homecoming Homecoming, 1924, oil on canvas by Norman Rockwell Norman Rockwell’s Homecoming was published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on September 24, 1924. He painted sentimental images of everyday life that people all over the country could enjoy. This illustration, of a working man returning from the Grand Hotel in New York, suggests that home and family are more important than success---or failure---in the big city. The man’s battered suitcase and disheveled clothes imply a…