Anthony de Feo

Screenwriter; art-lover; barrel-rider.

Stories By Anthony de Feo

20th century

Still Lifes Too Vivid to Be Real – Imagined Realism in Luigi Lucioni’s Art
By Anthony de FeoAugust 15, 2021
For some people, realism is defined by painting what they see. For Luigi Lucioni, it meant painting what he thought was there. Luigi Lucioni’s art was an imagined realism, a reflection of his own perception of...
20th century

The Prismatic Glass Tiles of Frank Lloyd Wright
By Anthony de FeoJune 10, 2021
Early in his career, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright – the famous pioneer of the Prairie School style at the turn of the 20th century – experimented with a host of organic designs. He was a...
19th Century

Scrimshaw: True American Art
By Anthony de FeoJune 4, 2021
Despite the enormity of whales, those pursuing them could go weeks, even months at a time without seeing a single one. With all that time between hunts, sailors needed something to occupy their hands with. From...
Ancient Egypt

The Lifelike Death Fayum Portraits of Roman Egypt
By Anthony de FeoNovember 21, 2020
Though they are often referred to as “Fayum portraits” – taking their title from the location of a region in Egypt where Pharaoh Amenemhat III’s mortuary temple once stood – they came from various places across...
20th century

Frederick Stuart Church: Painter of Harmony
By Anthony de FeoFebruary 12, 2018
A lifetime of training could not have prepared Frederick Stuart Church for 1863. But his works of fantasy that came after clung to and perhaps even dictated national Romantic bent: idyllic portraits of women and animals...
20th century

The Last Landscape of William Langson Lathrop
By Anthony de FeoNovember 24, 2017
The landscape of Long Island, New York drew a host of American Impressionists and their associates from the late nineteenth century and into the early twentieth. The Shinnecock School, the first en plein air art...
Architecture

Art Creating Art: Old Westbury Gardens
By Anthony de FeoJune 19, 2017
cWhen Jay Phipps and Margarita Grace married on November 4th, 1903, they wed at Battle Abbey in East Sussex, England. There the 1066 Battle of Hastings ended with the Saxons’ defeat at the hands of William...
Artists' Stories

Ogunquit Artist Colony: The Painter’s Paradise
By Anthony de FeoApril 18, 2017
The Abenaki people native to southern Maine knew of their homeland’s allure long before their European successors. The word “ogunquit” – which became the name of a small shipbuilding community on the state’s southern border –...
Artists' Stories

The (Not So) Simple Style of Emil Carlsen
By Anthony de FeoApril 8, 2017
Emil Carlsen was, for roughly the first forty years of his life, poor and relatively unknown. After all, he rejected the growing appeal of florid color and captured, fleeting light that predominated modern Impressionist taste. Instead,...