Lee Cable “Goodnight”

By Bob Bahr   Painting historical scenes from one of America’s favorite real-life stories can mean you don’t get a lot of leeway in how you depict things. But SKB’s key cowboy found a way to thread the needle. Lee Cable was approached by Jim Parkman...

James Coe: Paying Attention to Setting

By Bob Bahr For years, New York State artist James Coe accurately rendered birds of all kinds for publications and guides. Then, in 1998, he went cold turkey. “For about three years, I only did plein air paintings,” Coe says. “Then I tried to put the...

There’s More Behind This Best of Show Winner

By Bob Bahr The judges for the miniature show at the Dubois 2015 workshop hosted by the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation admired the technical ability on display in Deborah Day’s Best of Show painting “Butterfly Girl,” but chances are they sensed...