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Lord of the Rings fans, grab your party hats and your wizard staffs...
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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
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Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
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If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Fear, 1943. Both the Easter narrative of...
Once Punched a Skeleton
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
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These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
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Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
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Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
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Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Ladies Man
Buried his book of poetry with his wife, then exhumed the book for publication
Jewish camouflage expert
A tad temperamental
Los Angeles legend, master of the evocative cityscapen
The less popular American Impressionist
We love a good Teddy
Took over Taos
honestly pretty vanilla
Balling all over the world
Adopted as a samurai, maybe born one
Obsessed with calligraphy
Yes We Ashcan
It runs in the family
Botany babe
Volcanoes are his game
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
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Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Illustrated children's books to pay the rent
A favorite of mass-production calendar makers
A bit like a cat himself
Leveled up
American fantasies
Could paint a grain elevator and make it pretty
The cowboy artist
Buffeted by the art world
Who needs an American hero?
An egotistical maniac, or my new boo?
Badass Queen Fini
High level of cat
Wrapped in a Catalonian mystery
Late bloomer
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
