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Full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.   Now that's a mouthful! "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Pablo Picasso The Museum art collection includes wall art from the classical masters, decorator's favorites and well known painters and photographers. Works from artists ranging from Van Gogh to Henri Silberman are available as Publisher printed lithographs or serigraphs. Click any of the links to see the details on any one particular painting Read Full Story

Christine Wasankari Semi-Surrealism Landscapes Christine Wasankari, a Washington State artist, has an extensive art background and majored in both Illustration and Advertising Graphic Design at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado. She has exhibited in Washington, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming and her original paintings and prints are in private and corporate collections in many parts of the US and Europe. She specializes in landscapes, still life, floral and abstract expressionism while utilizing a wide range of media. She is currently living near the beautiful and inspiring Olympic National Park. From her landscape series of southern Colorado and the ... Read Full Story

Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972) is a Dutch graphic artist known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints which feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, and tessellations. He portrayed mathematical relationships among shapes, figures and space.   Although he had no formal training in mathematics, Escher's understanding of math was largely visual and intuitive. Additionally, he explored interlocking figures using black and white to enhance different dimensions. Integrated into his prints were mirror images of cones, spheres, cubes, rings, and spirals. During his lifetime, Escher made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings, and over 2000 drawings and ... Read Full Story

cute erik and i finally sat down (well, i suppose it involved a fair amount of walking around, and moving things back and forth, not so much just sitting) to consider where to hang the art and prints we've accumulated. hanging pictures isn't something i wanted to rush into, and so last night we did mostly preliminary thinking. the "well, if this is over here, then we still have this wall for something amazing we find at some point in the future" kind of thing. my dilemma is that i go back and forth between loving a sparse, uniform, typical gallery type arrangement (this ... Read Full Story

Blower-vacs are time and labor saving machines, introduced in the 70's. They were designed to blow leaves, grass mulch and general debris from pathways, sidewalks and landscaping , and even to clean gutters or remove a snow. Read Full Story