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Happy New Year 2017 and Some of the Best Things that Happened in 2016

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by Gregg Chadwick Happy New Year 2017! It’s raining this New Year’s Eve in Santa Monica. The haunting voice of Gil Scott-Heron singing  Winter In America  fills our living room. My thoughts trace a circuit from this moment back to an earlier New Year in Japan as 1989 rolled into 1990. I was in Tokyo following the spirit and artworks of Ando Hiroshige. That winter in Japan, I clutched a large volume by Henry D. Smith II and Amy G. Poster on Hiroshige’s  One Hundred Famous Views of Edo   and trekked on rail, foot and car across the historic core of what was Edo era Tokyo. Sponsored by the Nippon Seiyu-Kai's 30th Anniversary Award, I endeavored to create a series of new paintings inspired by Hiroshige’s woodcuts. Time, place, memory, mystery and lore all mixed in my artworks. Gregg Chadwick Passing View of Shohei Bridge  30"x24" oil on linen 1990  Today, on the Brooklyn museum’s Tumblr page, Alison Baldassano posted a phot...

President Obama Endorses Hillary Clinton for POTUS

Thank you for this incredible journey. Let’s keep it going. God bless the United States of America!" — @POTUS "Thank you for this incredible journey. Let’s keep it going. God bless the United States of America!" — @POTUS https://t.co/pgv3aUXdle — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 28, 2016