Author Archives: Lynn Woods

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as “the addition of strangeness to beauty,” and the Romantic artist’s obsession with passion, poetic reverie, melancholia, and the mystical journey was never so achingly expressed as in the lieder of Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828). Schubert wrote … Continue reading →

Eugene Ludins was a Woodstock-​​​​based artist who painted enigmatic, politically charged imaginary landscapes, which achieved some recognition in the 1930s and 1940s. He died in 1996 at age 92, having long fallen into obscurity; Abstract Expressionism had hit New York like … Continue reading →