Waller-Yoblonsky Fine Art

Christa Reuter Riegen’s interpretation of Henri Matisse’s “The Green Line” (La Raie Verte) also known as Madame Matisse, illustrates Riegen’s ability to capture the fundamental elements of the original painting. She celebrates the iconic painting, making it her own; it is not a duplicate, it is a refreshing portrait of Matisse’s wife. Madame Matisse Acrylic on Canvas 20 X 24" - Framed: 25 X 29" Signed Upper Right: Christa Riegen Dated: 3/2002   At the time of the painting, 1905, Matisse was part of a small modern movement called the les fauves (the wild beasts). The name came from their sheer strident use of color and wild brushstrokes. Matisse’s work would have been rejected by the major salons in Paris with this portrait. He creates no personification of female beauty in his wife’s portrait, it is a highly simplified painting. He uses a green line down the center of her forehead, continuing down her face and then on to her neckline. The green line represents a shadow upon h

Is it possible that Wilson has been creating art for about 60 years? An article published by The Orlando Sentinel newspaper in the early 1980s, Wilson said he had been painting since the early 1960s. It is most likely that he started as a boy. At the time of that interview he had two studios, one in Tennessee and another in Wisconsin. His studies were at the Hunter Museum of Fine Arts in Chattanooga, where he spent two years working on painting and two years drawing. In the interview he said “I drew for two years solid, then got into color”. Wilson has spent years on the art festival circuit, packing up his art booth and moving on to the next street festival, weekend after weekend. During moments of respite, he creates work that fill his booth. There is a long list of accolades and awards by art judges and critics that have observed and judged his work. A quick glance at his lengthy list of awards would have you believe he should qualify for a national life-time achievement aw

Donald Grant Hines originally from Casper, Wyoming, moved over to Jackson Hole to be the founder, owner and jeweler for his name's sake jewelry store that he ran with his wife at the time.  Upon retirement from the shop he starting spending time in the Arizona desert.  For a while you could find examples of this sculpture at the Casa de Artist Gallery in Scottsdale, and in other Arizona locations where they described him as a 20th Century Arizona artist.  One of his sculptures is shown below with a full description:               The 17 inch vertical monolith of white Colorado marble stands on a wooden base.  The sculpture points to the sky and takes advantage of the stone's original shape.  Standing before the sculpture you are compelled to explore the many facets, and examine the back and forth of the solid and negative elements.  There are swelling contours that start at the base and change as they move up in elevation, allowing the viewer to get lost in the composition.  Th

Numerous stories have been told about Elliott Eaton, however the best one was from the Salt Lake City Tribune. The SLC Tribune was covering the 1999 Charlie Russell Art Auction in Great Falls, and their on the ground correspondent, Nancy Hobbs, was describing to her readership the “Quick Draw” process and auction:  A high point for many attending the auction is the "Quick Draw" event that challenges a dozen artists each night to create a work of art from a blank canvas, a pile of clay or an old weathered log. In 30 minutes. With throngs of people watching over their shoulders as they work. The results are miraculous, especially to the unartistically inclined who watched the silk being spun. Eaton started with a blank sheet of paper and a vase of three delicate irises, and ended up with a vibrant watercolor bouquet, full of his trademark red poppies. He took a few minutes to frame it, walked around the ballroom showing it to potential buyers, and within an hour of finishing,

Montana is known for it’s summer rodeo schedule that is included with every state and county fair. As a kid there were two rodeos that I always kept track of, my home town, the Wolf Point “Wild Horse” Stampede, always the second week of July, and the world famous Miles City “Bucking Horse” Sale. These rodeos would bring out the bull riders hoping to win the prize purse with the goal of not breaking any bones. Along with the bull rider, the other character in the ring was the rodeo clown, also known as the "barrelman". The rodeo clown has several duties including; entertaining the crowd between events, providing comic relief as well as heckling the rodeo announcer, and most important to protect the rider from the bull once the rider has been bucked off. The clown is really a protection athlete working to distract the bull from the rider. The rodeo clown is exposed to great danger. They frequently wear bright baggy fitting clothes designed to tear away with protective ge

On occasion the works of Irene Friedman resurface, after spending a lifetime within an existing estate.  Upon resurfacing, they get a chance to be catalogued and rediscovered.  Kate Marshall Dole wrote a celebration of life article about Friedman for the Chicago Tribune (Mar. 15, 2017), where she outlined Friedman's triumphs over adversity and her compelling desire to create art.   Friedman lived for more than 100 years and was driven by her love of art.  She was an immigrant child of a widowed mother. Born Irene Hochfelder, April 26, 1915, the only daughter of Fannie and Armin Hockfelder, in an area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that became Czechoslovakia.  She never met her father who was killed during World War I.  Concerns about growing anti-Semitic sentiment in Europe following the war, Fannie Hochfelder and her daughter moved to the United States when Friedman was five.    Arriving in New York City, they joined her extended family in the Bronx.  There they pooled resources s