Category: Dog Art Photography

  • One Must Know the Animals at MMOCA

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    Self Portrait with Sandy by Cherie Hiser, 1974


    One must know the animals
    , an exhibition that explores our relationship with the animal kingdom is on view at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Wisconsin until August 2, 2012.

    The title is taken from the Rainer Maria Rilke novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge:

    For the sake of a few lines one must see many cities, men and things. One must know the animals, one must feel how the birds fly and know the gesture with which the small flowers open in the morning. One must be able to think back to roads in unknown regions, to unexpected meetings and to partings which one had long seen coming ….

    More information here.

    Hat tip to Dog Art Today reader Martha Claasen for letting me know about the show and who covertly photographed some paintings that looked like Tyler.


  • Tyler Foote: American Dog

     

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    Tyler Foote: American Dog* by Moira McLaughlin, July 4, 2012

    Enjoy the 4th.

    * Tyler Foote is a road in Nevada County, California built in 1913 by Arthur DeWint Foote, Mary Hallock Foote's husband. It connects North Columbia, California to a town called Cherokee that used to be called Tyler. 

     

  • Rilke Poem + Eakins Photograph

     

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    Three Children and a Dog Playing in the Creek by Thomas Eakins, 1883

    With all its eyes the animal world
    beholds the Open. … Free from death.
    Only we see death; the free animal has its demise
    perpetually behind it and before it always
    God, and when it moves, it moves into eternity,
    the way brooks and running springs move.

      — Rainer Maria Rilke, Eighth Duino Elegy

    Photograph via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Poem via Poemas del río Wang my new favorite blog.  Highly recommend.

  • Susan B. Anthony Stray Dogs Quote

     

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    Suffragist Florence Jaffray "Daisy" Harriman via the Library of Congress

    Sooner or later we all discover
    that the important moments in life
    are not the advertised ones,
    not the birthdays,
    the graduations,
    the weddings,
    not the great goals achieved.
    The real milestones are less prepossessing.
    They come to the door of memory unannounced,
    stray dogs that amble in,
    sniff around a bit and simply never leave.
    Our lives are measured by these.

    Susan B. Anthony

    Yesterday marked the 93rd anniversary of the 19th amendment.

    Vote.

  • Mary Pickford Dog Photograph

     

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    “Through the Backdoor” Starring Mary Pickford, 1921

    Via Where the Wild Things Are.

     

  • Did You Ever Want to Have Kids?

    As a childless 45-year-old woman, I'm sometimes asked, "Did you ever want to have kids?"

    The truth is, I never did until I moved to Nevada County.  Luckily, my landlord lets me borrow his.  Meet Braydon and Munch , Pygmy goats who stayed with us this weekend. 

     

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    Braydon and Munch

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    Alfalfa and Oats for Breakfast

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    Tyler Wants to Play

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    A Head Butt Means I Like You

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    Seriously, Let Me In

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    The Burn Pile is Yummy

    My nieces also came to visit…

     

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    Making Fairy Water

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    Fairy Water

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    It's Hard to Photograph a Fairy Who Doesn't Want Her Picture Taken

     

    Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers who care for kids and fairies every day, especially my own mother who instilled in me a love of both.

  • Beta Theta Phi Dog: Zulu

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    Zulu Poses for the Official 2012 Beta Theta Phi Photo by Agustin Vita

    Artist Kathryn Freeman Vita sent me this darling photograph taken by her filmmaker son Augustin Vita. Zulu is a Great Pyrenees therapy dog who lives with one of the brothers at the Beta Theta Phi fraternity house at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

    Not surprisingly, Zulu is the most loved member of the fraternity.   Here he is having his picture taken for the annual fraternity composite photograph  — thus the tie!

  • Why Tyler is My Dog

     

    It's still a mystery how I knew Tyler was my dog.

    But I think it has something to do with his socks…

     

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    Tyler Foote at Dog Bar by Moira McLaughlin, 2012

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    Kathleen and Moira McLaughlin, 1972

    I didn't like running around in my bare feet either.

  • I Thought About a Fawn

    Before I got Tyler, I thought about a fawn

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    Audrey Hepburn with her Fawn, Pippen and Yorkie, Famous via Sugar + Meows

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    Stylish Kenyon Woman with her Pet Deer

     

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    Brigitte Bardot and Fawn via I Heart the Man in the Moon

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    Eloise Morris with her Dog and Fawn via Florida Memory

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    Happy Hours in Camp. G. and B.&M. Engineers Corps and Visitors Small group of men and women and two deer in front of a tent. Some of the men are playing musical instruments. 1889. via the Library of Congress by way of AngelFire

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    Life Magazine cover, August 23, 1948, woman with a Pet Deer via Old Life Magazines

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    Emmy Lee and her Pet Fawn via Emmy Lee's flickr site

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    Frida Kahlo and Fawn via The Little Deer

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    Women in Bed with Dog and Deer, Beverly Hills, 1927 via Abby Farson Pratt

    View my entire "Fawns" Pinterest board where there are more, lots more, photos of fawns.  I went a little deer crazy during my dog-less days.

    Also, Dog Art Today reader Peter Halston sent me Retronaut's post about Wild Pets: 1891 – 1971, which is very intriguing and makes me glad I chose a wild pet called a puppy.

     

  • Dog Photography Workshop by Teresa Berg + Bev Hollis

     

    Teresa Berg and Bev Hollis, two of the most talented and successful dog photographers working today, have scheduled another Unleashed: Fine Art Pet Photography Workshop. This one is in Dallas, Texas, June 2-4, 2012.  Space is limited.

    **Warning**  Watching this video will make you want to move to Virgina, buy a farm, and become a full-time pet photographer:

    Visit Unleashed: Fine Art Pet Photography Workshop for information.

    If you are unable to view the video in your browser, click here to watch it.