Dog Art Today

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  • Take Your Dog to Work Day

    Dorothy

    Established by Pet Sitters International to celebrate our dogs and promote pet adoption, June 22, Take Your Dog To Work Day, is billed as the doggiest day of the year.

    Dorothy (above) and Channel (below), painted by Rachelle Oatman, don’t look like they need to be taken anywhere. They look like they run the show. I think they’re great and so do Oatman’s clients such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, Issey Miake, Princess Caroline of Monaco, and Valentino. Contact Dog Art Dealer, Jaynie Milligan Spector, to commission an Oatman of your little CEO.

    Channel

  • Christie’s Dog Sale Spotlight: Richard Ansdell’s Two King Charles Spaniels in a Landscape

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    Trends collide in this lively and lovely dog portrait by Richard Ansdell. When Queen Victoria was given a King Charles Spaniel named Dash right before she became queen at the age of 17, the breed became wildly popular. When she had Sir Edwin Landseer include the pup in his spectacular painting Her Majesty’s Favourite Pets, 1837, (below) dog owners clamored to similarly memorialize their pets.
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    Van Dyck style portraits with grand landscape backgrounds, like Lady Killigrew,1638, (below) were also fashionable at the time.

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    And much the way dog-lovers today Warhol-ize their pets, a vividly realized, Van Dyck-esque King Charles Spaniel painting was the must-have item for trendy Victorian ladies. Ansdell’s was probably one of these. And it, too, is spectacular! Christie’s esitmates it will sell at auction this Friday for between $150,00-$250,000.

  • Christie’s Dog Sale Spotlight: Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Etude de Chien de Terra-Nuova

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    Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter best known for his Neo-Classical and Orientalist style. His Etude de Chien de Terra-Nuova (1852) is another highlight of Christie’s Dog Sale this Friday, estimateed to sell at auction for between $120,000 – $180,000. Although this Newfoundland Dog is said to be painted “without sentimentality,” the scale, the dignity, and the majestic Academic style belie what appears to me as a profound connection between the artist and subject. Some believe this was the artist’s dog. I think that’s a good guess.

    I love this painting because it’s so different from Gérôme’s usual exotic and highly dramatic subjects, like Pollice Verso (below) –- Latin for “Thumbs Down” — one of the paintings that famously convinced Russell Crowe to be in Gladiator.

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  • Oliver Lett: Quirky Dogs Around Town

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    I love London based artist, Oliver Lett’s vibrant acrylic work. His use of bright colors and heavily applied paints give his animals a furry texture and his cityscapes a cinematic glow, like his Nighttime in Prague (pictured below.)

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    It reminds me of Van Gogh’s Cafe Terrace At Night without the lonely-table pathos. A dog can make all the difference!

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    Visit Lett’s website to commission a portrait of your dog and see his work currently on view at White Space Gallery in London.

  • Christine Merrill: Dog + House

    Artist Christine Merrill started out as an architectural painter. Then, in 1987, she began including homeowners’ pets in the foreground, and her career took off. One look at the majestic and homey “Cool Breeze” (pictured below) and you can see why. She exquisitely renders what we hold most precious, house and hound. View Merrill’s work at the prestigious William Secord Gallery, specializing in fine 19th and 20th century dog art.

    Coolbreeze

    Below is my collage of our beloved family dog, Rhett, in front of our former home inspired by Merrill’s style. I call this piece The Gent because, although Rhett, a Wirehaired Dachshund, could be precocious, he was always a little gentleman, exactly like his namesake Rhett Butler. To see more of my work visit my DreamDogsArt Store.

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  • Luis Ramos: Petcasso

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    New York artist, Luis Ramos, combines his love for old master art, Spanish heritage and life-long devotion to pets to create rich, detailed pet portraits. His luxuriant oil paintings capture the animal’s personality with soulful whimsy. To honor your pet with a Neo-Classical masterpiece from Petcasso contact Luis Ramos.