Pediophobia Makes Doll Collecting Impossible
Mary Anne sent me photographs of a collection of dolls she wants to sell. She packaged them up in original boxes. The dolls are part of the “Victorian Collection” by …
Tsuba Sword Guards, Not a Toy
What are these “little disks?” wrote VA, a reader all the way from South Africa. She said her Uncle collected these odd tiddlywinks. She has no idea where he got …
These Complicated Women
Writer Claudia Hoag McGarry, and actors Shay Monroe, Peter Rojas, and Kathleen Russell Hardin talk about the play These Complicated Women, which happens at Center Stage Theater Saturday, January 25 …
An Ohio American Primitive Rocking Chair
CH sent me a photograph of a ladderback rocking chair given (tradition has it) to CH’s great-grandparents as a wedding gift from CH’s great-great-grandfather in Ohio. Let’s describe the rocker …
Larry Irweks
Musician/artist Larry Irweks talks his father Don Iwerks and his father’s book about his grandfather, Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks. Both Ub and Don worked at …
Frederick Stuart Church: A True American Artist
I snapped up this illustration of a tiger observing a singing bird on a branch, at Destined for Grace Thrift Store in Goleta. The signature reads “F S CHURCH.” One …
A Little Glass Pitcher with a lot of Class
F from Santa Barbara once owned a large collection of art glass, now mostly sold. But he saved a little glass pitcher with “Gladys” written on it in enamel pant. …
The WHY Behind Delaroche’s Napoleon Painting
JS owns a painting on porcelain of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1769-1821), not painted in the way we usually picture the Emperor. Here we see a sad little …
Haven, an exhibition of 10” x 10” prints created by Santa Barbara Printmakers
Artists Claudia Borfiga and Meagan Stirling talk about their Haven, an exhibition of 10” x 10” prints created by Santa Barbara Printmakers exhibit at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara …
Checklist: How I LOOK at and JUDGE a Work of Art
I own a household of ‘orphan’ works of art untracible to an artist. I judged them to be very fine pieces. This checklist gives you six steps to understand the …