Historical
“There weren’t a lot of opportunities to study art in rural Missouri, but drafting was pretty close to art. I loved geometry and physics, so architecture and engineering were good for me.”
Fantasy
Posts from Rediscovered Art:
Beau Satori
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 advertise...
The Construction of the Basin Park Hotel
This week's post in honor of Labor Day is James Yale’s pen and ink of “The Construction of the Basin Park Hotel” in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. James' inspiration for this drawing was from a photograph taken in 1904. It is one of many architectural renderings James'...
Unexpected Gifts
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...