About Tim Ruane
Tim Ruane is an artist and writer. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he studied English and art, and has worked as a chief copy editor in the editorial department of The Washington Post, where he has also worked as a freelance photographer. He has written hundreds of poems, two novels a number of short stories. His photographs have been published by The Washington Post, Simon & Schuster and The Good Men Project. He has shown his photographs at Potomac MD Public Library and is scheduled to be published in ShareArt LA, Circumfleks Magazine and Splinter Literary Journal. He will have an exhibition of his photographs in September at the offices of Prudential FedRealty in Washington D.C. Mr. Ruane lives and works in Garrett Park MD, just outside Washington D.C. USA.
I think if you make the background white this could be really powerful. I’m thinking about doing a street photography photo essay about women looking at phones, so I’m sort of jealous of this picture.
Hey great idea. Keep doin’ that street stuff–so many possibilities. Good luck with your woman-and-phones project. It is a great, fabulous idea.
Thanks again.
Have shared this one on facebook. Spooky – something awful is about to happen.
Thank so much.
Ahhhh. I was down at the National Gallery last Sunday but forgot to get the name of that master painter who also paints people before an ocean. I am going down again tomorrow and this time I won’t forget.
Thanks again, especially for the Facebook share.
was it Magritte? He had a lot of bowler hatted men, some by the sea. There is an Adelaide artist (now) who dresses men up in suits and bowlers and then stands them in the sea. His paintings are very realistic and the sea is calm.
Enjoy that gallery. Cascades cafe for gelati?
Damn, I was down there again today, forgot. I am going again tomorrow, will get the name. He is a French artist, late 1800s. I’m thinkin Vuillard, but I don’t remember. And I don’t know how to spell Vuillard.
One of my favourites V’d! His mother was a dressmaker and he spent a lot of time indoors painting her and the interiors, patterns, fabrics etc. but still could be him! now I am dying to find out…get with the program TOMORROW ok?
shall do. :):)
Eugene Boudin:
“Figures on the Beach” oil on canvas; 1867-1870.
“Beach Scene at Trouville” oil on wood; 1863.
:):)
— Tim Ruane
Hey Tim. I see! thanks for the reference. Boudin was one of those dusty fellows on the (art school) slides just before we got to impressionism so he passed by too quickly. His paintings are terrific now I really look. Lots of outdoor works on the beach. The first one with the figures is strangely jarring, as if the figures are all added later. perhaps because they are all in a line. I see lots of groups on the beach here – sometimes weddings or ceremonial dunkings (baptisms)? but also ad-hoc congregations of dog-lovers. None are as tidy as this.… Read more »