‘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

acrylic on wood/gunther January 27, 2030 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Up or down? Does the nation, its folk working or not, in health or not, in hope or despair, of diverse belief surely go forth from the aspirations… Continue reading

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