Dog Paintings.  For those of you who love dogs and art I would recommend the September-October issue of Veranda magazine.  It goes into detail about and shows a number of photos of famous paintings of dogs.  It also details the showings of dog paintings, photographs and sculptures that have been featured by the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut and that will be featured by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.  The title of these exhibits is “BEST IN SHOW: THE DOG IN ART FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO TODAY.”  The Bruce exhibit ends the 27th of August while the Museum of Fine Arts exhibit starts on October 1 and runs through the end of the year.

While on the subject of art exhibits, Veranda also has a feature article on the forthcoming exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.  It is called LOUVRE ATLANTA, starts October 14 and will feature, for the next three years, 400 works of art from the Louvre that have never before been exhibited in the US.  The loan fees for the exhibition will be used to help restore the Louvre’s 18th Century decorative art galleries that are now closed to the public.  The art works are not limited to paintings.  Porcelain, antiques, drawings, tapestries and decorative arts will be displayed as well.

I can’t leave the current issue of Veranda without directing your attention to the article and photos of a marvelous home in the mountains of North Carolina at Cashiers.  Hal Ainsworth and Winton Noah furnished the home they had designed for them.  They opened retail shops in Atlanta in the seventies and have done many marvelous interiors since then as well.  The majority of their clients are designers.

John Fish  (919) 696-3474   Email: marvmax@mindspring.com   Web Site: www.JohnFish.com 

This entry was posted on Monday, August 21st, 2006 at 6:56 pm and is filed under Raleigh Durham Realtor, North Carolina Living, Interior Decorating, Art and Art Works.