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Monday, November 5, 2012

Every so often, I return to view the art of Lawrence Beall-Smith, hosted online at the Naval Historical Center.  I made a similar post in 2007, extolling Beall-Smith’s virtues of bringing color to a mind conditioned to look for nuance within a black and white frame. The picture I wish to discuss now is linked here. The […]

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Lawrence Beall-Smith

Friday, September 14, 2007

Scrolling through the archives of the Naval Historical Center, I revisited their collection of period artwork this evening. And it is, in a word, awesome. Many paintings of conflict are somberly painted, with good reason. But there are others, like this painting by Lawrence Beall-Smith, that show color in interesting ways. Having grown up watching […]

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