Tag: Charles Sheeler

The Guggenheim Shares My Twenty-Year Painting Project

On July 2, 2009, my first day as a full-time artist, I set up an easel across Fifth Avenue from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and began painting.

Seventeen years later, the Guggenheim shared three paintings from the resulting series across its social channels.

The October 30 feature, part of the museum’s #FrankLloydWrightFridays, brings together My Guggenheim, Toward My Egypt (2026), Panton Guggenheim (2022), and Cartoon Cake Guggenheim (2025). Three very different interpretations of a building I’ve been returning to annually since the beginning of my career.

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Painting Process | Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges @SSandK

Final SSandK Bridges

If He-Man were alive today, he might thrust his sword to the sky and declare, “I have the Power of the Twitterverse!”

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Painting Process | Spoonbridge and Cherry

Final

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen did it right, with Spoonbridge and Cherry in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Ever since I first laid eyes on this masterpiece, I knew it must be painted. After the jump, each step along the way.

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