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Nursery Art: Horse Head #4

pcNielsen — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:35:40 +0000

The final in the Nursery Art series, Horse Head #4 by Olson, 21/250.

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Nursery Art: “Anl lh 2/9″

pcNielsen — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:05:45 +0000

Yes, as far as I can discern, that is the title of this next work by Olson. The artist must have been quite tired when scrawling the title onto this print, because it’s not remotely legible in comparison to the three others. Number 168/250.

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Nursery Art: Horse Head #3

pcNielsen — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:56:43 +0000

Horse Head #3 by Olson, number 17/250.

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Nursery Art: Horse Head #2

pcNielsen — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:17:17 +0000

Just after moving to Arkansas, round about 2003 or 2004, a frame shop in Siloam Springs closed its doors. They had a sale as such, and we ended up purchasing a few things for the office and a few prints.

Included in the prints we purchased were four etchings of carousel horses. They are signed “Olson” and are very well done. We bought them with our future child in mind, for the nursery. We still have them, and after 10 years of marriage we finally have a reason to frame them. Here’s the first for your viewing pleasure, Horse Head #2 by Olson, number 21/250.

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Clouds as etching

pcNielsen — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:06:33 +0000

This past weekend we made another short trip back to Northwest Arkansas to catch up with M-DAT folks before the coming Autumn. While there we walked through a very nice show going up at John Brown University, which included this wonderful rendering of some clouds over a church destroyed during World War I.

Detail of La Calvaire de N---port 1914, an etching by Belgian artist Jules Van de Leene (1887-1962)

Filed under: Art, Etching, Northwest Arkansas, Printmaking, Siloam Springs

The fifth day of Christmas

pcNielsen — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:30:06 +0000

Rembrandt
The Nativity (etching) 1654