Dog Art Today

Dog and Cat Enjoy Halloween by Leslie Jones

Dog and Cat Enjoy Halloween by Leslie Jones, 1940

Via Boston Public Library by way of Elizabeth Stevens Morris's Animals Pinterest board.

Everyone OK?

A man walks along a flooded street as the beginning effects of Hurricane Sandy are felt in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, October 29, 2012. Photo credit: EPA

Stay home. Stay safe.

Via Vos Iz Neias?

Happy Birthday Dog Lover Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso Playing with Dogs by Edward Quinn, 1960

Pablo Picasso dances with his Afghan Hound, Kabul, while his other muses, Lump, his Dachshund and Jacqueline, his wife, look on.

Via Gallerie Michelle Champetier.

Donate to Four & Sons' 1st Anniversary Newspaper

Four & Sons is a Melbourne-based online magazine about dogs and culture. In honor of its one-year anniversary editor Marta Roca decided to create a hold-it-in-your-hands-and-smell-the-ink newspaper.

This old tyme artistic endeavor is being funded by dog art lovers like us via Pozible. Your can pledge as little as $1, but if you pledge $10 you get a copy of the newspaper (and more goodies with bigger pledges).

As of today, October 23, 2012, $770 has been pledged for the $1,500 goal. The project is only funded if the goal is reached.

If you would like to show your support for Four & Sons and their devotion to dog culture please donate.   If it's not in the budget simply spread the word.  They have only six more days to meet their goal.

I learned about this project via another favorite dog-art wesite, HundKunst, written by Petra Hartl in Vienna. I think tt's so inspiring to see dogs celebrated in our society in so many cultures around the world.  Donate today and become a part of this passionate, global, dog-art network.

P.S. If you donate you can add a photo of you or your dog by unloading the image to your Pozible profile.  You can see Tyler Foote drapped in the American flag in the upper right hand corner.  Petra's Rocco is the white dog two spots below him.

Sold: Trying to Get Along by Anna Dibble

Trying to Get Along by Anna Dibble

Vermont artist Anna Dibble emailed me to let me know her painting Trying to Get Along recently sold as a result of its exposure at the Strathmore: Unleashed! exhibition last June at the fine arts and cultural center in Bethesda, MD.

Strathmore used Dibble's painting on the invitation, and the Washington Post printed it in an article, and featured it in a contest they sponsored for kids that involved looking for cats in the dog art show.

Trying to Get Along, 8” x 10” mixed media on panel, sold for $775.00.

Strathmore: Unleahsed! was a multimedia celebration of dogs in art.  I (Moira McLaughlin) worked as an advisor on the project.  My video Dogs in Art, a tribute to 5,000 years of dog art was also on view.

Congratulations, Anna!

Visit Anna Dibble's website.

P.S. Kimberly Wang has a fantastic article about Anna Dibble and her studio on her City Dog Country Dog blog.