14 Pictures of America For The 4th of July

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Dazzling Erin

14 pictures of America, taken by me over the past 8 years:

Happy Independence Day!

11 Paintings For the 4th of July

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Dazzling Erin

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

— Harry S Truman

by Angela Wakefield

by Dan D’Amico

by Derek McCrea

by Diane Knott

by Jeffrey Nuemann

By John Baeder

by Linda Nelson Stocks

By Paul Berenson

by Robert Watts

by Tom Antonishak

By Tom Brown

By Tom Cannady

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

— Abraham Lincoln

Happy birthday, America!

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Dazzling Erin

Artwork of the Day: The Shadow

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Dazzling Erin

by Charles DeFeo

Artist Profile: Lu Kimmel (1905 — 1973)

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Dazzling Erin

All of the covers below (and the one above) were painted by the New Jersey-based painter Lu Kimmel. Though I couldn’t find much biographical information of Kimmel, he was apparently active from the 1930s through the 1960s. According to this entry at Fine Art America, he painted over 50 paperback covers. Here’s only a few of them: