Parts and Smoke at Chickamauga
2007 oil on canvas 20 x 30



From August 8 to through August 15 2010 you can vote for this painting at the Saatchi Showdown.
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=280336

Watercolor Donation to Albany Institute

Matthew Feldman Esq. of Lewiston NYhas donated a John Ransom Phillips watercolor from his family collection to the Albany Institute titled
"I arrived late at the battlefield: the unpleasantness was gone no death, but reflection and quiet. It is the look of the landscape where history was made. You are seeing what I am seeing. I preceded you. "

Exhibition Opening Photos June 19th

Exhibition Opening Photos June 19th Ransoming Mathew Brady:
Re-Imagining the Civil War Albany Institute of Art


Photos: Steve Ricci













This exhibition, at Albany Institute of Art, includes over 25 works inspired by Mathew Brady and his Civil War photography.







































































Ransoming Mathew Brady will run through October 3, 2010

Albany Institute of History & Art
125 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12210
Tel: 518.463.4478
E-mail: information@albanyinstitute.org

Friday Opening at the Opalka Gallery

Mathew Brady As He Would Like To Be Remembered (detail)
2006 oil on canvas 50x40"

Phillips Painting Rests in Hotel

The Crescent Hotel in San Francisco has put John Phillips’s The Family Bed on permanent exhibition in the lobby.

The painting can be seen at:

The Crescent Hotel San Francisco
http://www.crescentsf.com/
417 Stockton Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 400-0500

For more on the subject of art venue .
http://ransomingbrady.blogspot.com/2010/05/

Olpalka Works

Note from Egypt to Albany.
Brady of Broadway: Searching for Celebrity at Opalka will exhibit both oils and watercolors, including the dynamic composition for 5-panels, Photography as Performance.

Olpalka gallery in Albany, June 4-July 30, 2010


More about Brady of Broadway: http://ransomingbrady.blogspot.com/2010/03/brady-of-broadway.html

Hawass at the American University in Cairo

The Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass spoke at the American University in Cairo last week about new discoveries at Giza and Komel-Dikka.



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Morgan Library Declines Papyrus Works

Barbara Fultz, long time collector of John Ransom Phillips and Tribeca business woman recently offered to donate three works on papyrus from the Book of the Dead series to the Morgan Library. This series is beautifully illustrated in Phillips recent publication “A Contemporary Book of the Dead”

The Morgan Library turned down her offer.

More: Morgan Spurns Works