A few years back I posted this photo and commented how I found it among my family artifacts and how my ancestor must have been an Abe fan. It appeared to me then to possibly be a newspaper clipping pasted to cardboard by my ancestor to preserve it. I put it back in storage and didn’t […]
Category Archives: Artful Artifacts
Atwood’s Artist Artifacts 4: Hartung’s 1940s Vacationing Cats
While sorting through the family historical items that have been entrusted to me, I have come across many interesting items. Yesterday it was a small pile of postcards. Its summer, time for vacations, and back in the day you purchased postcards in the city or places you visited. I wonder where these were bought? They […]
Atwood’s Artful Artifacts 3 : Gloucester’s Fishermen Memorial, Then and Now
My Dad handed me my first camera when I was a kid. I was smitten with the hobby from the start! We had many fun years together taking photos. Thanks Dad! To honor him, I have been looking at some of his old slides and photos and have attempted to recreate them. This weekend I […]
Unique Holiday Greetings
Here at Maplewood Press and Archer Atwood Books, we would like to offer you a warm Happy Holidays, and wishing you the very best in 2017!! I don’t recall when I started painting Christmas ornaments. In the beginning they were very simple graphic designs, painted directly […]
Atwood’s Artful Artifacts: Harbors
Atwood’s Artful Assembled Artifacts #2 : Harbor Views! New England harbors are quaint and beautiful. My father loved to visit them to take photos of fishing boats that he would later make into watercolor paintings. When I was younger, I obviously tagged along. Little did I know how much those trips would influence me later! […]
Atwood’s Artful Artifacts: Duck Decoys
Atwood’s Artful Assembled Artifacts #1 : That’s Just Ducky! Handmade Decoys were historically used to attract ducks into a hunter’s firing range. They have been around forever. Some older decoys were covered with bird skin and feathers. The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. has decoys that date to 400 BC-AD 100 that were found in […]