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. "

Friday Opening at the Opalka Gallery

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

John Phillips is Selling His Egyptian Abode

New Life - John is selling his house in Egypt: He has finished with his "lives" in Egypt and is now pursuing another "life" in China.

Artist's Villa for Sale / Rent in Luxor, Egypt
http://www.artistvilla.net/

The villa is on the western bank of Luxor beautifully located directly across the Nile from Luxor Temple&Winter Palace Hotel ( 5 minute ride by motorboat )& 3 minute walk to the villa , and 20 min taxi ride to all the important monuments on West bank ( Villa of Kings , etc).

He plans to visit China next fall

Phillips At the Saatchi Showdown

Brady - Photography as Performance
Saatchi showdown competition.

Don’t miss your chance to vote on this work.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=263457

Showdown ends April 12 2010

Phillips Returns

Phillips Returns – Attends Book Awards

John Phillips returned from Egypt last week and attended readings for The National Book Critics Circle awards. Wendy Doniger, friend and contributing author to 3 of John's books, was nominated for her non-fiction work, The Hindus. Heartfelt congratulations to her on the well-deserved honor!

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

Phillips Travels Back to Egypt

John Ransom Phillips has gone back to his house in Egypt to continue his spiritual and artistic explorations.

Further Information:
BOD Phillips and Companions will Eye Ay
Phillips Off to Egypt

Brady of Broadway at the Olpalka Gallery

Brady Through a Glass Door, 2006,
oil on canvas, 70×40 inches

Brady of Broadway returns to his roots upstate to show at the well-designed Olpalka gallery in Albany, June 4-July 30, 2010. Still working out details but oils and watercolors will portray status and celebrity as staged by the 19th century photographer.

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.



Buy John's new book!!!

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.

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