Collections

So, we bought some new art yesterday.

This is a picture called "Jester." It's a photo of the card of the actual serigraph that we bought, by John August Swanson. You cannot believe the beautiful blues of this picture, even if you go to the website. The night sky is absolutely luminous, and around the edges (which you can't see in my grainy photo, but can see on the website) the outer edge of the picture is surrounded by dozens of tiny circus figure constellations.

The other picture we bought was Tales of Hoffman. It is so vivid that I didn't bother getting the card, because it failed to preserve the bright color and the sharp images.

I love this kind of art; the jewel colors, the stylized figures. So imagine my delight when Mr. Sweetie was the one who felt we had to own some of this art.

Now we are in good company--three Smithsonian museums, the Victoria and Albert, and even the Vatican Museums all own Swansons.

It's worth checking out the website, and marvelling at the works themselves, as well as the laborious and amazing process it takes to print these serigraphs.