By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com When a son loses a father, there is such a flood of emotion that it will take perhaps the rest of the younger’s life to sort things out: No father-son  relationship is ever fully… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com With the beginning of World War I just a bit more than 100 years ago, with the lessons of that first of two cataclysmic 20th century death-rendering events as unlearned as they are in… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com If you combined a well-composed, British statesman-like fellow, complete with ever-present smoking pipe, and a fan who could give “da” loudest Bronx cheer at a New York Rangers hockey game, that would be Dick… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com There is, of course, a cycle to life — a beginning, an end and if the gods are with you, much in between. The beginning begets most of that fill-in-the-blanks, with so many tangents… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com This isn’t the time of year to discuss holiday or other occasion cards, but a recent email from an artist friend in Colorado prompts a memory. She writes, “My latest ‘adapting’ kick is reworking… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Ride a bicycle and you never forget. Years, decades later, and you hop on as if you were still the eight year old though your  joints may creak more than the bicycle chain. Not that… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com A photo of a dress from a London shop, blue and black, made its viral way around the Internet last week because some people saw it as white and gold, or hues that approached… Continue reading

Completed bedroom. Note the window light. By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com      82 North Broadway, Nyack, N.Y. — When you paint in a great artist’s childhood bedroom, in space where the Hudson light seems a direct path from Heaven,… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Here’s a story. A very human story. One that might remind you of your mom. And a cold day. And simple soup. And a complex world. We have been having old-fashioned winter in… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Sometimes a person comes along as if the moment were a conversation with a plane passenger whom you’ve just met and who will soon move on to her own destination. Yet, however short the… Continue reading