“On the Road in Charlotte, North Carolina”

–by Mark Andrew Harris, Founder & Director Our third stop on our trip through Georgia and the Carolinas was Charlotte, North Carolina. While in Charlotte, we visited North Carolina's oldest art museum, the Mint Museum, established in 1936. The Mint Museum-Uptown   |  Charlotte, North Carolina The original Mint Museum

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“On the Road in Houston. Texas: Part Five”

–by Mark Andrew Harris, Founder & Director This large oil portrait is another work of art by Richard Blauvelt Coe, recently donated to the DAC Foundation by the family of Margaret E. Coe Cairnes. The DAC Foundation Collection of works by Coe includes six oil paintings, two watercolor paintings, eight

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Dixie Art Colony Foundation

“On the Road in Houston, Texas:” Part Four

–by Mark Andrew Harris, Founder & Director This large oil landscape painting is another work of art by Richard Blauvelt Coe, recently donated to the DAC Foundation by the family of Margaret Ellen Coe Cairnes. The DAC Foundation Collection of works by Coe now includes six oil paintings, two watercolor

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Dixie Art Colony Foundation

“On the Road in Houston Texas,” Part Three

–by Mark Andrew Harris, Founder & Director The painting included in this post is one of six works of art by Richard Blauvelt Coe, recently donated to the DAC Foundation by the family of Margaret Ellen Coe Cairnes. The DAC Foundation Collection of works by Coe now includes six oil paintings,

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Dixie Art Colony Foundation

“On the Road in Houston Texas,” Part Two

–by Mark Andrew Harris, Founder & Director The painting included in this post is one of six works of art by Richard Blauvelt Coe, recently donated to the DAC Foundation by the family of Margaret Ellen Coe Cairnes. The DAC Foundation Collection of works by Coe now includes six oil paintings,

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“On the Road in Houston Texas,” Part One

–by Mark Andrew Harris, Founder & Director It's always exciting when the Dixie Art Colony Foundation receives telephone calls and emails from followers across the county. This year alone, followers from the states of Washington, Colorado, Texas, Florida, and Minnesota have contacted us. It's even more exciting when family members

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Richard B. Coe

Richard B. Coe Etchings Added to the Collection

Seven etchings included in the Birmingham Museum of Art's 2018 exhibition, "MAGIC CITY REALISM: Richard Coe's Birmingham," have been added to the DAC Foundation Permanent Collection. This exhibition was part of the state-wide celebration of Alabama's bicentennial, ALABAMA 200, and was accompanied by a printed catalog of the same title. Following the 1929 stock market

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Dixie Art Colony Foundation

Abstract Works from the Collection: Part Two

In PART-TWO of this four-part series, we will look at three works  of abstraction by Dixie Art Colony artist CALOS ALPHA "SHINEY" MOON and two works by Dixie Art Colony artist RICHARD BLAUVELT COE included in the DAC Foundation Collection. We have included a description under each work of art shown and

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Dixie Art Colony Foundation, Wetumpka, Alabama

The Elusive Mr. Richard B. Coe: Part Four

—by Mark Harris, Founder & Director of the DAC Foundation In this post, the FOURTH in a series centered around DAC participant RICHARD B. COE, we are featuring a painting from the DAC Foundation Collection titled Devin Yacht Club. Located in Amagansett, New York, on the eastern end of Long

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