Such a fun idea! We have more art than we have walls, but here's a sample:
1, 2. This is our newest piece, which we got about a year ago in New York City. Our lovely Janet was kind enough to take us to the Affordable Art Fair (where "affordable" = "less than $10,000" so we had to chuckle) and we found this amazing piece! You can't really tell from the photo, but it's quite large -- probably 3 x 4 feet or more, and we actually had them wrap it up and we schlepped back to the hotel in a cab and thence back to So Cal on the plane! Apparently I don't have a pic of it in situ but we have it in our front hall and really love it.
3. This is the gallery wall in our family room (3) , which as you can see was transported pretty much intact from the house I lived in before we were married (4).
5. These lovely ladies are in our living room.
6, 7. More gallery walls, this time in our bedroom. My former husband and I collected these lithographs by David Lance Goines back in the early 1980s. This is less than half of the collection! The paintings on the right in #7 belonged to my husband's parents.
8, 9. This is a painting that a legal client of my husband did in lieu of the legal fees. It depicts a local landmark. Hubby made the shoji screens, which are moveable and conceal the TV. Big fun!
10. You normally don't get to see this, but this is what I'm looking at when I take my outfit photos in my Woman Cave. Mixture of travel photos and family pieces and various odds and ends. The needlepoint under the peacocks was done by my late mother-in-law, whom I never got to meet, and the "bathing beauty" watercolor on the left was painted by my late grandmother in 1919, when she was sixteen year old! And the piece above that, a print with a bunch of shoes, is titled "Leopard is a Neutral!"
11. We got this little apple at a charity auction and it presides over the kitchen!
12. Antique screens and a scratch-off map of the world in the dining room.
13. Another charity auction purchase, a multi-media riff on The Big Wave.
14. The awesome train painting over the fireplace in the Man Cave was painted about 100 years ago by my husband's grandfather!
15. And of course you've seen the big cycling poster in the front hall, with its matchy matchy owner!
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