Seeing the world through the eyes of Monet

Opthamologist Michael Marmor created  a computer simualtion to reproduce how the
painters- Degas and Monet- eye diseases would have dulled color and blurred lines, demonstrating how these transformations might explain their sylistic changes.

Click here for more information and a slide show of what the world might have looked like to these Impressionist masters. 

George Tooker wins National Medal of Arts

President George W. Bush announced the recipients of the 2007 National Medal of Arts. Painter George Tooker was among the award winners. CMA owns several works by Tooker and will present the first retrospective of his works in 2009. Click here to read more about this celebrated artist.

A Wedding Announcement

So, every once in a while I come across these interesting little tidbits (ok, interesting to me at  least, but I'm easily entertained). But anyhow, I ran across an announcement the NY Times did in 1902 for one of Claude Monet's stepdaughters that also mentions his son-in-law, Columbus artist Theodore Butler. Enjoy!