Isalos Fine Art

 Philip Koch, The Whisper II, oil on panel, 12" x 16", $2,800

Philip Koch has been busy. His mid-career retrospective,  "Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination" will start a five-museum tour:

The University of Maryland University College (May 4 through June 22)

The Maryland Institute College of Art ( February - March, 2009)

The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA (June - August 2009)

The Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN (June - September, 2010)

Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI (early 2011) 

Of course, you can see his work here at Isalos, too. If that's not enough, there's a great article about him in the April issue of Fine Art Connoisseur. There he is, right next to an article about Wayne Thiebaud. I'll admit, I'd never seen this magazine before, but it's beautiful and the articles are well-written and readable. (I get some of the other art magazines, but I look at the pictures and fall asleep while reading the articles).

 It's business as usual here in Stonington. It snows, the snow melts, the melodramas come and go. Occasionally we see cars with out of state plates, usually pulling up at the real estate offices. The roads are treacherous with frost heaves, and the harbor is still full of fishing boats, some rigged with scallop gear. Our oil bills have been outrageous, and I hear plenty of complaints about winter. Still, I have to admit, every time it starts to snow, I love watching those flakes come down. Maybe it would be different if we had television reception (I think it's a good reason not to have it).