Miscellaneana: Art Union Parian ware LONDON – Those of us who live in the UK have all heard of the so-called postcode lottery, but the People’s Postcode Lottery was a new one on me. If I’ve understood it correctly, every month all players in one postcode area share at least £2 million if that area is drawn. Sounds good, […]
Researcher IDs artist who painted ‘The Old Plantantion’WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) – For 75 years, an unsigned watercolor known as The Old Plantation has ranked as the best-known and mostly widely reproduced image in the vast Colonial Williamsburg collection. But not until now has anyone known who created this rare, unusually sympathetic glimpse of 1700s Southern slave culture. The secret was unearthed by […]