Ms. Cordova has taught sculpture at Penland and has been featured in various clay magazines. She's even had a few things at local pottery shows. I LOVE her work.
This piece was displayed in a corner at the Asheville Art Museum when we visited last month (or maybe the month before.)
Here's an article from the Asheville Laurel.
I've been very fortunate to visit several galleries featuring her work.
On July 27, 1939 Congress awarded artist Howard Chandler Christy a contract to create a large painting in commemoration of the signing of the United States Constitution. The painting was first proposed in 1937, during the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the signing, but Congress had refused to appropriate the $35,000 necessary to commission it, as many members felt that such an expense was inappropriate during an economic depression. The proposal failed again the following year, but was finally approved in 1939, with a reduced price of $30,000.
It's the birth anniversary of the painter Edward Hopper, born in Nyack, New York (1882). By the time he was 12, he was already six feet tall. He was skinny, gangly, made fun of by his classmates, painfully shy, and spent much of his time alone drawing.
After he finished art school, he took a trip to Paris and spent almost all of his time there alone, reading or painting. In Paris, he realized that he had fallen in love with light. He said the light in Paris was unlike anything he'd ever seen before. He tried to re-create it in his paintings.
He came back to New York and was employed as an illustrator at an ad agency, which he loathed. In his spare time, he drove around and painted train stations and gas stations and corner saloons.
Hopper had only sold one painting by the time he was 40 years old, but his first major exhibition — in 1933 at the Museum of Modern Art — made him famous. His pieces in that show had titles like Houses by the Railroad, Manhattan Bridge Loop, Room in Brooklyn, Roofs of Washington Square, Cold Storage Plant, Lonely House, and Girl on Bridge. Though his work was more realistic and less experimental than most other painters at the time, he painted his scenes in a way that made them seem especially lonely and eerie.
Edward Hopper said: "Maybe I am slightly inhuman ... All I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."
Writer's Almanac 2014
Summer Evening by Edward Hopper
It's the birthday of the artist best known for a painting of his mother: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, born in Lowell, Massachusetts (1834). His most famous painting was titled Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871), but it's more commonly known as "Whistler's Mother." It's a portrait of Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler in a black dress, seated in profile against a gray wall. When Whistler's scheduled model didn't show up for a sitting, he decided to paint his mother instead.
"And in the end, I think we don't need to do anything to be loved.
