tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59240112158725394772024-03-05T13:09:12.192-05:00Maine Ahrt-istGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-1033168853686694102011-02-02T06:30:00.002-05:002011-02-02T06:50:11.000-05:00well....it's been a while. I'm in Key West , Florida. Had to motor down to recover dozens of paintings from a failed art gallery. I left Blue Hill, Maine on December 3rd. I managed to get out of town JUST as the snow started to fall. THE SNOW....i guess that's the theme for this winter. As i drove south through successive waves of snow...blowing into my old dodge van's windshield w/ the ferocity of a full can of disgourging silly string?.....i have questioned the logic of this trip! I HAD to retrieve paintings, if only to deprive others from possessing them by default. The Key West that they depict has effectively dissappeared, replaced by a dystopian present that unnervingly seems to attract more vistors/residents daily! it's The Snow, i guess. Aging Boomers and their subsidized largess can drive here...avoiding all the pitfalls that Gringos encounter out in the world ...beyond the Pale, so to speak. I'll try to keep up w/ Blogging on a daily basis...hope you'll comment. glcGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-67538929340577146702011-02-01T21:06:00.002-05:002011-02-01T21:06:36.551-05:00been bizzy check this out!George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-39923348189619180212011-02-01T21:06:00.000-05:002011-02-01T21:06:10.284-05:00Google LatLong: Street View takes you inside museums around the world<a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/02/street-view-takes-you-inside-museums.html">Google LatLong: Street View takes you inside museums around the world</a>George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-28495581966671804432010-11-29T12:17:00.001-05:002010-11-29T12:18:19.830-05:00sorry i've been 2 bizzy to post....but i'm gonna try again to keep up a daily flow of rant/insight...seeya. glcGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-58954544948634263162010-01-01T00:08:00.002-05:002010-01-01T00:12:19.146-05:00new year 2010happy new year!...the bullets are whizzing overhead(hopefully!) here in ole miami!...pop pop pop.....stay away from the windows!.....sushi just dropped in her shoe in key west...mayor bloomberg paid a whole lot of money to be on hand to press the button on the ball drop...meanwhile..jesus a round just landed outside my door here...i'm going to bed....work to do tomorrow! glcGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-362361909372054332009-12-30T22:12:00.003-05:002009-12-30T22:19:50.772-05:00happy new year 2010dec.30th...full moon over miami....solstice,xmas and new years in rapid fashion....what will the new year bring?......i'm in miami for the winter...doing a series of portraits in oil/acrylic/watercolor of the locals and their haunts.....trying for a "beam reach" in tough economic times...always difficult...it seems that the $ has gone somewhere...exactly where is the question....into wars and welfare for bankers/traders population grows as resources are taxed to the limit.....and so it seems to progress through the years...i guess to appreciate a painting by rembrandt...you don't need to know much about his life/times....and so i try to keep the background noise to a minimum...focus on the craft that i've practiced for over 40 years and ....let the artistic cards fall where they may. peace glcGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-32942365459331038932009-09-30T12:24:00.001-04:002009-09-30T12:25:54.990-04:00july 9th?!!! jeez..i've been busy keeping my head above water....time to breathe!.....painting in maine until after Thanksgiving ....when i head for the streets of nyc....enroute to winter in florida....miami/key west....seeya!George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-5338900724109076102009-07-09T11:14:00.002-04:002009-07-09T11:16:08.555-04:00maineahrtist(aka: bluiehillartist.com) .....glcrosby is back home in blue hill after a three week trip around new england/new york......lot of rain....old a few paintings on cape cod and in NYC....now home to clean up after the rains and do some local painting. glcGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-12798360306721881602009-07-01T19:05:00.002-04:002009-07-01T19:08:01.536-04:00new york ,,,july 4th..hearing snatches of info...another market setback?...junk bonds backed by Talf money?>.....anyway working hard here in nyc...selling paintings...getting teeth fixed and tweeking my website...headed home to maine in a few days....take care , dear readersGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-34410029501532162982009-04-14T12:48:00.001-04:002009-04-14T12:49:42.037-04:00bluehillartist.comannouncing the installation of my latest website....bluehillartist.com check it out! ps....i'll be on w.bway and prince st. this coming sat. the 18th...seeya!George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-81521538109960167592009-04-04T12:35:00.003-04:002009-04-04T12:39:39.551-04:00i turn 60 on april the 6th! Right now i'm wrapping up 3 months of painting/exhibiting/commissions in Key West, Florida. I"ll be in manhattan by the 18th of april...painting...showing some florida/nyc paintings on west. bway/prince st. in SOHO...should get home to blue hill, maine by month's end....feeling good...a little money saved up towards building my studio/gallery @ 20 Moose Lane in Blue Hill......hope to see you there....someday. peace, georgeGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-26434733467615109742009-03-06T16:23:00.002-05:002009-03-06T16:31:19.593-05:00Key West Art Bar show last nite...recovering today from the run-up to last nite's show of my recent paintings at the Key West Art Bar.....things went well and the show was well attended...well recieved. I'm a bit worn out from the workload.....i'll be continuing to paint in key west for a few more weeks...until the first week of April. My 6oth birthday falls on the 6th of April...quite a weight! Lost some old friends this year and i'm more cognizant than ever of the temporality of things...that's the conundrum....as a painter i make things and i guess my main motivation is to conjur some sort of visual alchemy..as a figurative artist, i create vignettes depicting scenes from a constantly changing world. Time passes...and in the passing i try to shine a light on memorable moments...that all too quickly drift into the past. George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-1493790626418969322009-02-28T07:46:00.002-05:002009-02-28T07:53:20.810-05:00key west art bari have been very busy this season in key west. Wrapping up 30 new small paintings. They go on exhibit @ the Key West Art Bar on March 5th. A nostalgic nod to what what once were more common scenes of key west...folks gathered on porches of small eclectic homes...playing cards in the afternoon shade. Otherwise i have been doing "house portraits" on commission. Come this thursday, i inaugurate yet another relationship w/ a key west art gallery......over thirty two years i have shown my paintings w/ quite a few venues... i am excited about this new gallery, the Key West Art Bar and i anxious to show off my new work. I've about another month to go here in the keys.....a little r&r at the beach for a week, after the show and then i start focusing on new york city...i stop off and show my pix in SOHO enroute to Maine and my studio in BlueHill......where i AM BlueHillArtist.comGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-49063160926306893572009-02-11T09:45:00.003-05:002009-02-11T09:49:12.978-05:00spring is right around the corner...folks in blue hill, maine are anxiously awaiting the return of artist/painter george lee crosby to his moose lane studio...not to worry, i'm still in key west, florida...working hard prepping two upcoming shows..the first) february22nd@The Gardens Hotel on Angela st.( it'll will run from 4-7pm in conjunction w/ Jazz Sunday) the second) inauguaral show @ The Key West Art Bar on march 1rst., the first thursday in March. Hang in there maineahrtist will be back in time to see his garden start to bloom!George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-62108915344197848162009-02-11T09:26:00.002-05:002009-03-01T22:08:53.955-05:00directart.orghave you been to <a href="http://www.directart.org">directart.org</a>?....i've a <a href="http://www.slowart.com/limner/htm/gall-art/george/index.htm">small site</a> hosted there. It gives some info regarding my painting and future plans. gGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-84368490308844172692009-02-10T09:02:00.004-05:002009-02-10T09:33:48.244-05:00andrew wyeth passes...thinking about the long consequential career of andrew wyeth. My route to painting in Maine came about with less ineluctable precision than that of wyeth. i sort of blundered into maine. in the midst of a hideously overheated july ...in manhattan, i came upon a book of photographs of Eliot Porter....mostly of his family home on great spruce island in the middle of penobscot bay. The light bulb over my head went off! "i gotta get outta this place"!...well, a decade or so later, i've found myself living in Blue Hill, Maine and working out of a<a href="http://bluehillartist.com/"> studio</a> on Moose Lane...with a beautiful view of penobscot bay....George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-49961005339381695172009-01-22T08:11:00.001-05:002009-01-22T08:14:32.257-05:003.6trillion!!!!!!!!!!roubinni says we're on the verge of a total nationalization of finance...3.6trillion in bad paper!....britain, as well...about time to stop sleep walking , america!. glcGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-74210895796025614722009-01-10T12:47:00.002-05:002009-01-10T12:53:19.305-05:00been a while....i'm in key west...got here a week ago...spent new years w/ friends in miami..been on the road over a month..left maine on dec. 4th...it was just before the winter weather set in...good timing...headed for Hudson , ny where i had a small show of paintings @ LImner Gallery...spent two weeks in nyc painting and selling pix up until xmas...weather was rough..did well enough w/ sales....given the economic conditions...drive down I95 was hellasish as usual w/ cheap gas it took on the proportions of a Mad Max film....stayed in palm beach area for a while..pretty sterile...miami more to my liking...now in sunny key west for a couple of months...painting daily and taking commissions for house portraits....saving my money for studio i intend to build this spring, back in blue hill, maine.George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-16404270322767975392008-10-04T12:08:00.002-04:002008-10-04T12:13:21.317-04:00politics...was i the only one who started when action figure for veep, palin....during the faux debate....mentioned general mcClellan...in afganistan?...and then the duely emotional se. biden merely denied the statement...w/out seizing on the fact...that the gen. , in question, is Mckeirnan?.....and today's times'article about dictator for Afganistan...flies in the face of conventional wisdom...wisdom?...more troops for ?...what.?..georgeGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-71030230966373818572008-07-18T11:27:00.001-04:002008-07-18T11:27:47.918-04:00Do you think the International Criminal Court should be able to charge world leaders with crimes? › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion<a href="http://www.japantoday.com/category/have-your-say/view/do-you-think-the-international-criminal-court-should-be-able-to-charge-world-leaders-with-crimes#comments">Do you think the International Criminal Court should be able to charge world leaders with crimes? › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-61918716078781317072008-07-17T12:13:00.002-04:002008-07-17T12:16:20.905-04:00cure for the summer time blues?figured it out when i left new york for Maine...i know there's heat/humidity down there...but! one drawback...more massachusset's license plates trolling around...high gas has reduced the noise where the rubber meets the road...a small price to pay.George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-90331328867468477912008-07-05T10:56:00.003-04:002008-07-05T10:59:47.375-04:00feb.22nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hello, been absent for a while. Busy with my painting. I'm back in Maine the past two months...working hard w/ my construction/destruction projects...the squirrels are not pleased w/ all the activity. I've a show of paintings @ Esmond-Wright Gallery in Provincetown, Ma. on Sept. 5th. Apart from that I'm busy w/ private commissions and as i mentioned, building my studio here in Blue Hill , Maine.George Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-1135895836562805162008-02-22T08:27:00.001-05:002008-02-22T08:29:19.076-05:00is anyone out there?.....hi.....feb. 22nd....i head for maine at the end of april....still down here in key west....working hard. gGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-53961308626076878392008-01-29T09:07:00.000-05:002008-01-29T09:09:49.676-05:00whatup!!!!hi, back at my blog...briefly. I can now be found @ Duval/Truman Jewelers in Key west (right next to the new upscale indian eatery) i'll be here in the keys until April 30th...come on by. gGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5924011215872539477.post-81375665358533125692007-09-26T11:16:00.000-04:002007-09-26T11:22:04.852-04:00....about a monthwell, it's been about a month since maineahrtist's last posting. General petraeus has left town...iran's president as well...i'm killing some time here in Blue Hill Library while i download some film forum podcasts. Planning a trip to Manhattan in two weeks...running low on the stuff that dreams are made of...ie: the weakening us dollar. (once i get my studio in the woods built, i'm headed to Italy to get me some of those increasingly more valuable Euros. Fall in Maine: the moon last night accented by the warmth in the air. quite nice. glcGeorge Crosbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033222922251221519noreply@blogger.com0