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

   ‘EDWARD HOPPER’S HIGH CHAIR, BATHED IN LIGHT’/acrylic-canvas/gunther February 17, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Edward Hopper, the famed American realist painter, was born in the family home at Nyack on July 22, 1882, in a second-floor bedroom… Continue reading

‘HOPE’/on canvas/gunther February 10, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com After the man left, the White House was dark, in black again as when the British set fire in 1812. But inside there was bright light, and the nation… Continue reading

‘ABSTRACT AT THE OLD ASTOR’/acrylic-canvas/gunther February 1, 2030 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com In the ’50s, a struggling artist stayed a night at the old Astor and left behind an abstract painting to show times were a-changin’ (just a… Continue reading