"Passions with a Purpose"

  art favorites Updated July 27, 2008

Here's a sampling of favorites from my art collection representing many years of hard work. To me, art-collecting is much more than some hobby: it's a source of immense pleasure. I feel these artistic expressions represent a beautiful celebration of the human experience. Since much of my own life is defined by the outward articulation of inner self, it's only natural that I'd be drawn to similar manifestations from others.

Specifically, my collection is designed to assist beginners with their art collecting adventure: including how-to affordably evaluate, acquire & care-for fine artworks. Each piece of this collection offers insights in these regards and communally they provide a how-to guide filled with various "do's & don'ts" for neophytes. I'll be publishing a new website along these lines soon...hopefully by early 2009. 

A few pieces worth noting?

• Contemporary art remains the most well represented category with large original works by Leon Golub, Joe Goode, Lawrence Kupferman & Rolph Scarlett plus an early ink-drawing by Alexander Calder and a noted lithograph from Roy Lichtenstein .

• Modernism is highlighted with oils by American pioneers Arthur Bowen Davis, Alfred Henry Maurer & Abraham Walkowitz along with several notable European & Latin American modernists including; William Fridericia, Alexander Kanoldt, Roberto Montenegro and Jesus "Chucho" Reyes.

• Paintings by Edward Cucuel, William S. Robinson and George William Sotter provide a platform for Impressionist works included in this collection.

• Special examples from Classical styles include artworks from Emil Carlsen, Jasper Cropsey, Copley Fielding, Alphonse Marie De Neuville and John Frederick Peto.

All told, the complete array is now over one-hundred and sixty pieces...and still growing.

Personally?

I'm most attracted to figurative art - particularly in expressionist forms. I also have an affinity for luminous pieces...a byproduct of my adoration for Turner. Alas, the nature of my collecting focus dictates that I include the widest variety of representative styles so that readers might discover a technique they most identify with for their own collecting interests.

Please note...

• If known, the name of each rendering artist is included within the photograph.

• All pieces are original artworks except for the Lichtenstein: which is a pencil-signed & numbered lithograph dated 1973

• Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee

Notable Recent Additions

Traditional & Realism

Modernism, Impressionism, Symbolism, Tonalism & Expressionism

Abstract, Pop, Post-modern, Surrealism & Contemporary

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