TITLE: “American Flatlands (fig. 36)”
ARTIST: Tim Yanke
DATE: 2010
WHY WE CHOSE IT: August is American Artist Appreciation Month! From Andy Warhol and Andrew Wyeth, to Georgia O’Keeffe and Mary Cassatt, America is the birthplace for some of art history’s most talented and celebrated artists. Who’s your favorite?
SOURCE: Park West Gallery Collection
Fine art by Tim Yanke is available through Park West Gallery and its cruise art auctions at sea. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery-yanke.com.
TITLE: “Happy”
ARTIST: Tim Yanke
DATE: 2009
WHY WE CHOSE IT: American abstract artist Tim Yanke was born on this day in 1962. Yanke’s work combines his fascination with southwestern and popular culture in a unique miasma of color and movement that can just as easily resolve to a weathered cow skull as a popular band icon.
SOURCE: Park West Gallery Collection
Fine art by Tim Yanke is available through Park West Gallery and its cruise art auctions at sea. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery-yanke.com.
TITLE: “A True Poet”
ARTIST: Tim Yanke
DATE: 2008
WHY WE CHOSE IT: Whether you prefer the works of Robert Frost, Walt Whitman or Maya Angelou, this month honors all of the world’s great poets — April is National Poetry Month!
Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, schools and poets around the country band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture.
SOURCE: Park West Gallery Collection
Fine art by Tim Yanke is available through Park West Gallery and its cruise art auctions at sea. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery-yanke.com.
TITLE: “Friday’s Black Roses”
ARTIST: Tim Yanke
DATE: 2006
WHY WE CHOSE IT: Ooh ooh ooh… aah aah aah… ch ch ch… it’s Friday the 13th! Friggatriskaidekaphobics (frigga, after the Norse goddess for whom Friday is named; triskaidekaphobia, meaning fear of the number thirteen), or those who (irrationally?) fear this particular date, should probably beware of black cats crossing their paths, walking under ladders, opening umbrellas while indoors and any other superstitions in general today… mwuahahaha!
SOURCE: Park West Gallery Collection
Fine art by Tim Yanke is available through Park West Gallery and its cruise art auctions at sea. Learn more at www.parkwestgallery-yanke.com.
