The Old Piano Canvas Print

I sat in a bar in Dickson County, Tennessee. Across the dance floor was this old piano that intrigued me. Every time the music would come on people would get up to dance and block my view. I looked through them and sketched in ink. A pretty girl kept smiling at me as I drew the piano. She was certain I was drawing her. She was not pleased when she looked at my old piano drawing.

Arthur Barnes is a artist who works in a variety of mediums including ink, watercolor, pastels and oils. He prefers to work directly from life and his favorite subjects are landscapes with an emphasis on nocturnes and scenes of the Erie Canal. Arthur has had little formal training but was fortunate to study a year under Juanita Greene Parks in 1982. She had studied under Reginald Marsh and Robert Brackman. Brackman was a student of Ashcan artist/ teacher Robert Henri. Since that time, Arthur has been on a consistent course of self-training in art with an emphasis on learning through experience much like the Ashcan artists. "You learn to draw. . .by drawing," his teacher often recited. Artists Statement on Nocturnes "Half of our...