by jyaadm | Apr 26, 2026 | Portraits, Rediscovered Art
While Rachel Hawkins was here for the James Yale Legacy team’s interview, I asked her to talk about James’ portrait of Don Tyson. The Don Tyson portrait James had painted for himself. The only one who I wanted to talk with about this painting was Rachel Hawkins, from...
by jyaadm | Mar 2, 2026 | Portraits, Rediscovered Art
People have been asking me how I choose each week’s Rediscovered Art post. It is sheer observation of who the Universe puts magically in front of me, whether in a Facebook message, a chance clue that pops up in James’ archives we are sorting through, or actually being...
by jyaadm | Nov 10, 2025 | Portraits, Rediscovered Art
With today’s post of “Ian plays and Snoopy Sings”, I reach out to all of you to join us to fill in the blanks if you know more about the history and the stories of “Ian and Snoopy.” This watercolor is part of a series of Children with Toys created around 1981 for a...
by jyaadm | Sep 8, 2025 | Drawings, Portraits, Rediscovered Art
Today’s installment from the Rediscovered Art of James Yale takes me to Eureka Springs to interview Beau Satori about the stories behind the original art he owns that include the oil painting of Erin Foster, and the two pen and ink drawings James created to...
by jyaadm | Aug 25, 2025 | Drawings, Portraits, Rediscovered Art
These two sketches were created by James in the early 2000s, both unexpected gifts, offered without ceremony. He was simply doing art, and for reasons I’ll never know, I became his subject. I don’t recall ever modeling for them, which makes their origin all the more...
