Edwin Scheier Sand Painting

Earl McCutcheon was a pioneer in the studio glass movement who spent 40 years at the University of Ga. In the 1950's he was among the most influential experimental glass makers in th...

I corresponded with Don in Kansas City and he identified it as his work from the early 80's. He shifted to furniture making in the 90's and has prominently exhibited at the Grovewood Gallery at the Grove Park...

Crestmount is the Mediterranean Revival Style mansion built by architect Robert D. Farquhar in 1923 for Antonio Morino "The It Man" and Daisy Can...

A Ceramic Art Company "Lenox" tankard circa 1895 decorated with scenes from Arthur Wesley Dow’s woodblock prints. 7.5” This china painted mug was made by Lenox and marked with the underglaze CAC Ceramic Art Company mark. It is decorated with three panels of “Ipswich Shanties” after the American Arts and...

Edwin A. Turner (1854-1899) large scale 19th century European farm house oil painting, circa 1880's Antique European School oil painting by listed American artist Edwin Turner. A t...

A Navajo sand painting mosaic art wall panel of the Navajo mythological Father Sky or Thunderbird created in the 1960s in a non traditional format...

A Navajo sand painting mosaic art wall panel of the Navajo mythological Yei Dancers Rainbow Guardians created in the 1960s in a non traditional fo...

These extraordinary ‘paintings’ were created using coloured grains of sand rather than paints. Each is after an original painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg. The first scene shows the Battle of Hastings with a central mounted figure, presumably William the Conqueror, with a red plume in his helmet, raising his sword against a fighter on foot. A printed version of this image, shown above, was made by William Bromley. (See the British Museum registration number 1858,1009.115 for a fine impression.) The second scene, composed with a similar central mounted knight with a raised axe (sword in the original) represents Richard the Lionheart in combat against Saladin at the Battle of Acre. In this case the print was made by Anker Smith...