February 1, 2021  ‘AMERICAN PROMISE’/acrylic, gunther   By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (Contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      This House, isolated in American vastness, no chimney seen, no doorknob, no curtains, yet it is a sturdy home, not abandoned, people within, green,… Continue reading

January 25, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      If I had a real conversation with Sara, who is in a room during this virus, as so many of us are, her face not seen though… Continue reading

January 18, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (Contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com) When you wrote your first letter, no matter how old you were, or sent away a quarter with three box tops to a cereal company to get a baking… Continue reading

January 11, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (Contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      The painting accompanying this essay is titled “Storm” and is a reworked piece following the tumult of 2020, now spilled into early 2021. It is, despite the… Continue reading

‘AT THE ASTOR’/gunther January 4, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III ‘2021’/acrylic/gunther      Sometime in 2021, the Astor sign will again be lit metaphorically in tourist spots across the globe; we will no longer just stare at paintings on… Continue reading

December 28, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      If the world were a tree, and we brought forth water and pruning and, most of all appreciation no matter the shape, the variety, the location, the… Continue reading

December 20, 2020      Each winter holiday season, this space is reserved for my son Arthur, a teacher and writer who has been offering stories for two decades. By Arthur H. Gunther IV (Contact: clausland@yahoo.com) The couple had taken… Continue reading

December 14, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      Gotta tell you a very human story.       The other day, in the middle of this awful virus time, I got a call from a friend… Continue reading

  December 7, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com   Just a few words here. After posting a recent painting without text except for the title “HISTORY,” on various internet sites, I was asked to provide a… Continue reading

November 29, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Contact: ahgunther@hotmail.com We all have our time and mood anchors, those moments of memory that moor us in the ordinary as well as during the storms that hit our lives. Stress… Continue reading