Maxfield Parrish was the most popular American artist/illustrators of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. Norman Rockwell succeeded him in that position, but Rockwell didn’t put himself in the same class as Parrish, and neither do I, charming (and, occasionally, deeply perceptive) as Rockwell was.…

Fellow blogger Pat Bean asked “What’s hanging on your wall?” today, so I decided to show you. I bought this at a student art show at Eastern Kentucky University sometime between 1968 and 1972. It’s signed Gold. If anybody knows (or is) this artist, THANK…

When I was little, we used to eat in a restaurant with this picture on the wall. Every so often, one would go on a visit and find this picture or one very like it in the family room. I believe it was considered to…