Coastal Custom Framing and Art

06/08/2026

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, c. 1840-1882) Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N.M. In a niche 50 feet above present Cañon bed. 1873

Photograph: Albumen print, 10.8 × 7.9 in. l 27.4 × 20.1 cm. Art Institute of Chicago. irequireart.com Join Us on Substack.

06/07/2026

Last chance to get a free print before Next weekend Print Drop !!
Come by on Tuesday to enter the Big Giveaway!!!

Have a good Sunday
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06/07/2026

06/05/2026

05/30/2026

05/29/2026

Exhibition Call for Entry: Changing Terrain

Submit by June 10, 2026

Calling all Southern California and Baja-based artists! Submit your entries for Changing Terrain: Regional Artists Interpret Our Landscape, a joint contemporary landscape exhibition exploring new interpretations of Southern California and Baja landscapes.

The exhibition will present a region in flux, reflecting its changing environment, communities, history, and evolving sense of place. This exhibition will take place concurrently at San Diego History Center (SDHC) and Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA).

Submit your work now at bit.ly/OMAterrain

05/27/2026

'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.' - Vincent van Gogh 🎨 ☀️
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🖼️ Vincent van Gogh, The Oise at Auvers 1890, Tate Collection. Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933

05/27/2026

🤍 By March 1915, when Margaret Rose McPherson revisited Bunmahon (then Bonmahon) in County Waterford, Ireland, with her friend the artist Gladys Reynell and 21 students including New Zealand artist Edith Collier, the world was at war.

This Arcadian summer reflected in the painting ‘(Still life with teapot and daisies)’ 1915 belies the tragedy unfolding in Europe. On 25 April Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey – a poignant action that would signify Australia’s emerging nationalism and result in the death of Reynell’s brother Carew on 28 August. Despite the traumas and horrors of World War I the artists sketched and painted still lifes, portraits of local people, landscapes and printed monotypes, prompting Rupert Reynell, another brother and war surgeon, to write to their father in October, ‘... Gladys’ attitude is testing my comprehension ...’

📘 read on: 🔗 https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/192.1977/

🏛 Art Gallery of New South Wales
Margaret Preston Still life with teapot and daisies 1915
©️ Margaret Rose Preston Estate