January 20, 2020  ‘NEVER A BLUR’/stylized photograph/gunther      By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Whenever there is war, and Washington adds horsepower to its response and a four-cylinder becomes a forever V-8; whenever there is peace yet troubles in… Continue reading

‘RORSCHACH ON HUDSON’/photograph/gunther      By Arthur H. Gunther I I I thecolumnrule.com      If Rockland County, N.Y.,  were to take its own Rorschach Test, it might look at the Hudson River pilings at Piermont that once supported a… Continue reading

January 6, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      When a color is the deepest it can be,  and when there is in view color that contrasts, then you have a metaphor for  the promise of human emotion.… Continue reading

December 22, 2019 Each Christmas, my son Arthur 4th takes over my now 38-year-old column. Here is this year’s installment. By Arthur H. Gunther IV     The clothes were still piled up in the ice cream truck.  That was… Continue reading

FALMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS’/photograph/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook) Remains — physical reminders of the past, the black of lost memory in an emotional white fog; yet unseen ropes, some silk, some coarse, tether us to what was.… Continue reading

‘YESTERDAY’/acrylic on wood/gunther December 16, 2019 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook) Yesterday can be a fading memory meant to be that way, perhaps to forget, perhaps neatly set aside to pull out again as you would… Continue reading

  December 9, 2019 ‘DOOR KNOB TO HISTORY’/photograph/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook) Edward Hopper, the famous American realist painter, could not have reached this marbled 1858 door knob in his childhood bedroom until a few… Continue reading

Dec. 2, 2019 ‘OLD HOUSE IN NEGATIVE ON NEW LINEN’/acrylic/linen By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook We are sometimes asked to look at the “black and white” of things, to assume that what appears white is just… Continue reading

  November 25, 2019 COLOR ON GRAY RIVER’/acrylic/gunther Rivers are gray and meant to be, though some shine blue and other hues. From the shore, with life declared by our own feelings, inclinations, style and additional uniqueness, we can each… Continue reading

CLOSED ON BROADWAY’/acrylic/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (also on Facebook)   Change is part of the march of time. The hands may slow but the moments pass anyway. There can be sadness, loss of cherished routine, worry about… Continue reading