Guidance for anyone deciding what to bring home. Originals and prints, sizing a piece to a wall, starting a collection, commissioning something of your own, and giving art as a gift.
A woman once wrote in to ask whether she could commission a painting of the farm where she grew up. The barn had come down years before. All she had were a handful of photographs, most of them slightly out of focus, and a very clear memory of how the light came across the top
A young couple hung their first framed print in a rented flat, in the gap between the window and the bookshelf where nothing else fit. It cost less than dinner out. They certainly never set out to start an art collection. Ten years later that same print hangs in a hallway they own, with eight
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A daughter once gave her father art as a gift: a small painting of the creek that ran behind his old house, the one he had sold years earlier and never quite stopped mentioning. He opened it and said almost nothing. She spent the drive home convinced she had misjudged the whole thing. Then the
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A collector stood in front of a landscape she had already decided she loved. She could take the original home, the actual surface the artist had worked on, or she could take a print and spend the difference on framing and a second piece for the hallway. What stopped her was not the money. It
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