Something Other Than Pipes

[telescopes]

Over the years I have collected a few original paintings - at first by local artists who could create artwork on commission - but eventually I focused on Mid Century artist whose vibe resonated with my own home tastes.

A couple of California based artists, Van Hoople and Danny Garcia - both very very different stylistic yet both masters of impasto techniques - were displayed in my home in Nevada and fit in well with the Bohemian/Moroccan decor. I also collected a Texas artist of the same period although more at the tail end of it, Edward Barton. He too was a master of impasto as well.

In my home office I also included works by George Rossler and Kim Benson - the first a late 19th century Tyrolean/Bavarian work of a man and his pipe and the second a painter of sea captains smoking their pipes. My home office has a nautical south seas vibe and has memorabilia and lamps from the 1950s that fit in well.

Anyway, my point is that pipes are only one component of what I find interesting. Quality painting, for me, is another of many things that create my fortress of solitude.

Do you have some favorite artists and paintings that you like to collect?

 

[ziv]

We are collecting my wife's works. Our house is not big enough for the ever growing collection.

 

[marc75]

I have quite a collection of colored bottles. Not to mention all the tampers I have that I'll probably never use.

 

[PaulRVA]

Paintings of Landscapes and Architecture from places I’ve spent time like the Bahamas Out Islands and places I’ve lived like New Orleans and Charleston. Lots of Acrylics,Watercolors and Photography from local artists.

 

[carp rides again]

Concert posters are something we collect, along with folk art that we come across and like

And houseplants. Holy crap the houseplants

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Because I did caricature illustration for the majority of my career, I had a deep interest in the art of caricature. I have many books and monographs about individual caricaturists (many signed, some with original drawings).

As far as original paintings, I don’t have many. I have a gouache painting by Miguel Covarrubias that he did for one of the Corey Ford Impossible Interviews that ran in Vanity Fair. Steve Brodner gave me painting of Frank Sinatra that he did for National Lampoon. With regard to drawings, I have ones by Miguel Covarrubias, Al Hirschfeld, David Levine, William Auerbach-Levy, and a host of others.

In the area of comics, I have drawings by the underground and indie comics artists, Vaughn Bode, Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, and a host of others. In the more mainstream comics realm, I have a painting by David Mazzuchelli (of Batman Year One and Daredevil fame) that he gifted me, but it was an illustration for a Vanity Fair article by Martin Amis (which Martin also signed for me), not comic related. Again, I have a paucity of painted work, but more drawn art.

As far as other collections, I have other in-depth interests: modern first editions, original Japanese jidaigeki movie posters (samurai and yakuza), toys, LPs and CDs, photographs by British photographer, Harrison Marks. The list goes on. I suffer from the hunter/gatherer gene.

 

[pappymac]

Books.
Until a couple of years ago I used to love visiting used books stores and searching for old books to go with all the books I bought from "new book" stores. I have four of the large storage containers with watertight lids in my storage unit and enough books in the house to fill another one.

I still love to read but I now have a subscription to Kindle Unlimited for most of my reading. I keep my complete collection of Sherlock Holmes, LOTR and books by W.E.B. Griffin for times I rather read a physical book.

 

[Dave760]

I love the work of the New Mexico serigraph artist Fermin Hernandez. I have some of his prints. Sadly he passed away. Since then his work has become harder to find. But I still keep an eye out.

 

[VUswim73]

Not paintings but I am a fan of 17th Century poetry (John Donne, Andrew Marvel, etc.), T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien. And FWIW, as an English major in college, I took 6 hours of classes in the Physics department dealing with astronomy - planetary systems, star creation, galaxy formation, and using the blue shift to determine distance from Earth. Odd collection, I know. Oh, I would be remiss in not mentioning Edmund Blake who crossed artistic forms quite well in my opinion.

 

[AreBee]

I collect a lot of stuff but really nothing of monetary value. I don't typically have specific items in mind to collect, but if I run into something that has a Guinness or Jeep logo on it, I'm probably going to buy it.

I also collect sports memorabilia for the teams I support.

Our vacations usually involve water of some sort, so I always look for nautical tchotchke. I always buy a bottle opener wherever I visit.

A big fan of the movie The Big Lebowski and have started to amass associated with it. Posters, Pendleton sweaters (yes plural), photos, figurines etc.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

When I first saw this thread, I wasn't sure how to talk about my collecting and my involvement with local organizations without sounding like a braggart. Let's just say that I do collect. I also enjoy getting printmaking artists together for collaborations at our printmaking studio in Birmingham and then having them exhibited. Providing a work space with a variety of presses and equipment for artists to explore this fascinating world of handmade images has sort of become a passion for me.

I also run booths at regional art show to show people the differences between printmaking and those giclee things that painters tell people are prints, but they are really just digital copies. Whereas prints only exist in the print form, never a copy of something else.
A friend of mine defines prints best as images made by making an impression into the paper.

After retiring from jewelry, I just wanted to get back into the art scene, so I joined a few groups which has led me to meeting some fascinating people. I am just happy to be sharing and spreading my appreciation for alternative image making and printmaking with my area of the world.

 

[ziv]

When I first saw this thread, I wasn't sure how to talk about my collecting and my involvement with local organizations without sounding like a braggart. Let's just say that I do collect. I also enjoy getting printmaking artists together for collaborations at our printmaking studio in Birmingham and then having them exhibited. Providing a work space with a variety of presses and equipment for artists to explore this fascinating world of handmade images has sort of become a passion for me.

I also run booths at regional art show to show people the differences between printmaking and those giclee things that painters tell people are prints, but they are really just digital copies. Whereas prints only exist in the print form, never a copy of something else.
A friend of mine defines prints best as images made by making an impression into the paper.

After retiring from jewelry, I just wanted to get back into the art scene, so I joined a few groups which has led me to meeting some fascinating people. I am just happy to be sharing and spreading my appreciation for alternative image making and printmaking with my area of the world.

Kudos to you for supporting local artists!

My wife and I started doing art fairs recently, it's an exciting albeit exhausting way to spend a weekend haha.

 

[RPK]

Ogden Pleissner’s sporting art pictures and a few original watercolors from a Maine artist, Arthur Taylor a friend who passed away a few years ago.

 

[lraisch]

We only have a few original works other than my wife's paintings and my photography. Two oils, a molded paper piece and a pastel by local artists and prints by Wysocki, Gustafson and Christiansen. There are also some nautical prints of 18th century sailing ships and some Sherlock Holmes memorabilia including a portrait of myself as Holmes and my wife as Watson made by our daughter-in-law.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

I don’t have a particular artist I try to collect pieces of work from, but I enjoy getting art shows and galleries featuring local and regional artists who are producing good stuff. Usually I can get some fantastic numbered prints for very reasonable costs. Plus a lot of the times I get to talk to the artist and buy them a beer.

 

[NookersTheCat]

As far as collecting I'm also into firearms, specifically "antique" military surplus firearms and their accessories as well as other military surplus gear.
As far as art I'm not old or wealthy enough for that yet lol, but I have dabbled in some abstract expressionist oils and had a fun time.

Right now tho I'm generally too busy with my business, but I've also been teaching myself to play guitar and piano the last couple few years. Between music, pipes/tobacco, guns, offroading, motorcycles, gardening/homesteading, art/photography, travel, cooking, camping, skiing, fishing, archery, and a few more I'm not even remembering... I definitely have more than enough hobbies and collections to keep my free time almost as non-existent as my bank account balance

Oh well though, that's life and I'd never change any of it. I love sampling as many different forms of exploration and experience that this crazy beautiful world can offer as I can. I try to never limit myself and I've always definitely been a 'jack of all trades, master of none' archetype.

 

[FLDRD]

Other than pipes?
Tobacco.
Ha!

 

[username]

the only painting I have is this one my great grandmother did that that I have been told is a copy of a more famous painting but I do not know the name of that one,.

 

[Dave760]

the only painting I have is this one my great grandmother did that that I have been told is a copy of a more famous painting but I do not know the name of that one,.View attachment 380190

I don't know the name either, but if you look at the YouTube channel "Baumgartner Restoration" for a recent video titled, "Why bother?," you'll see a painting much like yours being cleaned.

 

[username]

I don't know the name either, but if you look at the YouTube channel "Baumgartner Restoration" for a recent video titled, "Why bother?," you'll see a painting much like yours being cleaned.

thank you i was able to find the name of the the original painter from the comments Arturo Petrocelli (1856 - 1926) Neapolitan painter. "Portrait of a sailor smoking a cigarette" Now i where my great granma got the inspiration from.