Sears just recently married tennis superstar Andy Murray at a castle the couple own in Scotland. Murray purchased the castle a few years ago and it underwent extensive renovations before recently being opened again.
Price range information: Sorry none available.
Sears is a big enthusiast of American country music and especially the cowboy hats!
What a fascinating couple that also enjoy my two favorite activites, tennis and painting pets!
To close here is a clip featuring Kim Sears, Andy Murray, and their recent wedding:
Paula Waterman is a contemporary American artist renown for her animals prepared on a scratch board surface. In addition to her scratch board work the artist also creates wonderful animal sculptures. In addition to animals the artist enjoys painting marine scenes. Paula Waterman was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in the year 1954.
Waterman first attended college in Washington D.C. at American University. The program had a deep focus on abstract styles so she would eventually switch majors and earn a nursing degree from Washington Hospital Center.
Waterman uses her art to support various animal projects around the globe. The artist has even traveled to Africa for research and to shoot photographs of the animals in their natural surroundings.
As far as animals are concerned Waterman enjoys depicting birds and dogs.
In this clip we view the artist at work and listen to her thoughts on art:
Price range information: Small scratch board items that have sides smaller than 12 inches start at $1,000. Original oils can reach $15,000. no pricing available for sculpture works.
Below part 2 of the interview with Paula Waterman:
Robert Abbett is an American painter born in Hammond, Indiana in the year 1926. Abbett ranks on par with other animal artists like the legendary Bob Kuhn for his portrayals of wildlife. His favorite scenes were hunting dogs or fisherman.
Abbett has a wonderful application of paint varying his textures and making wonderful abstract designs using the branches of the fallen trees, or standing ones. Abbett has a great sense of color and uses the fall foliage colors of yellows and oranges to his advantage in his hunting scenes.
For his collegiate education Abbett attended Purdue University and the University of Missouri.
Abbett was also an illustrator and among his works was the series Tarzan.
The artist has been based out of Connecticut since the early 1950s.
Abbett is a well established printmaker renowned for his sporting works. He is a big hit in hunting and fishing galleries.
Abbett works in oils, acrylics, watercolor, and gouache.
If you enjoy dog paintings be sure and check out artists John Weiss and Edmund Osthaus orn anyone of the Bonheur family of artists!
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Price range information: Original works range from $5,000 to $50,000.
Fannie Moody was a fantastic painter of domestic animals and the landscape. Her father was also a renown painter of animals named Francis Wollaston Moody. Her father also taught decorative painting.
Fannie Moody was born in the year 1861.
It seems by her portfolio Fannie Moody enjoyed painting terriers the most of any breed.
Fannie Moody worked in many mediums including watercolors, pastels , lithography, and oils.
Fannie Moody passed away in 1948.
Price range information: Works range from $1,000 to $20,000.
Francis Wollaston Moody was painter of people and the figure and also was a teacher of decorative painter. The artist was born in the year 1824. The artist passed away in 1886. Below some fine examples of his style:
William Hays Senior was born in New York City in the year 1830. William Hays painted landscapes, still lifes, and animals in a realistic manner. Though he did make trips to foreign countries and to the Western parts of the United States at the time, Montana and the Dakotas, William Hays was based out of New York City and spent much of his time in his studio.
Animals were his favorite subject and in particular the American Buffalo. This artist is one of the premiere artists that tried to capture the United States western region before the white settlers came.
Price range information : Works range from $8,000 to $70,000.
William Hays Senior passed away in 1875.
William Hays Junior was like his father a great painter of animals. The son enjoyed painting dogs. Willliam Hays Junior was born in 1872.
The artist passed away in 1934.
price range information : Works range from $3,000 to $20,000. The artist worked in oils and graphite.
What a great family of artists! Like many of the artists families here be it the Wyeths, the Nyanhongo’s, or the Yoshidas, I am fascinated by the subject matter that is common between the artists. For instance Antoine Blanchard, its great to see the landscapes his daughters painted of the same subject. Its great to see that the son had a great love of painting animals, something he probably inherited from his father.
John Emms was a British painter born in the year 1842 in Blofield, Norfolk, England renown for his paintings of dogs and horses. His specialty as far as certain breeds was he foxhound. Emms enjoyed painting hunting scenes. In many works three dogs appear.
The artist started exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy of Art located in London, England when he was 24 years of age.
Emms worked as an assistant to master painter Frederick Leighton. Leighton was such a fantastic painter he would later be knighted by the Queen of England.
Emms was based out of Lyndhurst, England for most of his career.
Included in the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland.
The artist passed away in 1912 at the age of 68 years old.
In this clip we see a montage of works by John Emms:
price range information: Works range from $10,000 to $800,000.
If you enjoy dogs as a subject some other artists who work with dogs include John Weiss, Edmund Osthaus, and Robert Abbett.
Edmund Osthaus was born in Hildesheim, Germany in the year 1858. He was one of the world’s best painters of dogs. For his artistic education Osthaus attended the School of Arts in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Osthuas first came to the United States in 1883. His parents came to the United States previously, and he joined them when he was twenty five years of age.
Some breeds he enjoyed painting were setters and pointers.
Whilst living in Ohio Osthaus became a teacher. He was the chief instructor at the Toledo Academy of Fine Arts.
The artist was an avid outdoorsman and owned houses in New Jersey, Ohio, and even a hunting lodge in Florida.
Edmund Osthuas passed away at the age of 70 years old in 1928.
If you enjoy art that has to do with dogs make sure and check out my posts on John Weiss, my favorite painter of the dog. Also photographer William Wegman has made some wonderful photographs using dogs as his subject. Another great painter of the dog was Arthur Wardle.
Price range information: The artist was prolific in both watercolour and oils. Prices range from $10,000 to $200,000.
William Wegman is a fantastic American painter and photographer that is renown for his work with man’s best friend, dogs! William Wegman was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts in the year 1943. For his artistic education Wegman attended the Massachusetts College of Art. Wegman went on to earn a master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champagne.
For many of his works Wegman used a Polaroid.
Is included in prominent museum collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
In this clip Wegman tells us why he likes to work with our four legged friends!
And in this clip which is more than 30 years old, we visit the old NBC version of the David Letterman show with Bill Wegman and his dog Man Ray as a guest! This was the dog that brought Wegman his fame for shooting dogs. The dog was named Man of the Year by the Village Voice magazine, a free newspaper that tells about the goings on of New York City. The two also appeared on Johnny Carson.
And in this clip we go out with the artist on a shoot. I think he has more fun at his job than the “dog whisperer.”
Wegman’s dogs have also been featured on the show Sesame Street. Below we watch as his dog’s perform rub a dub, dub, dub.
The breed of dog he owns is called the Weimaraner.
price range information: Works range from $2,000 to $40,000.
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