April 27, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Greed is the virus that never goes away, in good times, in bad ones. It is exploitive, growing exponentially with pandemic illness, for example, its handlers quickly looking to… Continue reading

‘SOCIAL DISTANCING’/photograph/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      “Social distancing” is not new. As kids, we were forced to go to such lengths if we had older siblings who walked faster and who ignored us anyway. Couples always… Continue reading

April 13, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In this staying-at-home time, simplicity seems to have re-appeared, just as cleaner air nationwide is reported, that due to decreased vehicle movement. Not using the car as much, not… Continue reading

  April 6, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is understatement in almost everything British, and that may be because life’s storms are, indeed, best met by “Keep Calm and Carry On.” The Blitz, almost 15… Continue reading

  March 30, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      The life-sobering of young people today in this coronavirus world, already shaken to an unsteady footing by Sept. 11, other terrorism, endless military conflict and the hypocrisy shown… Continue reading

March 23, 2020 By Arthur H.Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In the very early hours of a Tuesday in Spring Valley, N.Y., my car rolled down Franklin Street past what was Eckerson’s blacksmith shop where during World War II my… Continue reading

‘RIVER THAT FLOWS TWO WAYS’/acrylic/gunther March 16, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com This is the mighty Native-American “Muhhekunnetuk,” Henry Hudson and Verrazzano’s waterway, the Dutch North River. It has carried people, goods and services through the ages of… Continue reading

March 9, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com‘ ‘TOWARD THE MOUNTAIN’/acrylic on paper/gunther 2020: A republic long ago formed in living democracy yet to expand to its potential must now not stumble once again nor take steps backward. Collectively,… Continue reading

ABSTRACT IN THE COUNTRY’/acrylic-canvas/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com There is no reason why art in abstraction cannot co-exist with the figurative, an old barn with a window of shape, form, color, line. As in a nation, if it… Continue reading

‘DRAWN SHADE ON ABSTRACT’/acrylic-canvas/gunther February 24, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com This is figurative painting meeting abstract, and isn’t that what life is as well — the real mixed with the unknown, that which is as yet undeciphered? The… Continue reading