While it is nice to have a big studio in which to do your artwork. It is also nice to take your tools on the road. That I why I am happy to recommend to my fellow artists the following portable easel:

The Ravenna Table Easel with Drawer by Art Alternatives

Now you can easily take that easel with you…This portable table easel is a nice gift for the artist in your life who needs an easy way to practice their talents wherever they travel. And of course, this also make a nice easel in the studio, too.

The Ravenna Table Top Box Easel is a roomy portable easel that securely holds your canvas in place (up to 34 inches) and has a drawer for your painting supplies. It can be placed on a table or desk.

Made from seasoned hardwood, this portable easel has an easily accessed side drawer plus a handy carrying handle.

Customer Comment: I love this easel. It is sturdy and can adjust up to 34″. That’s really great. I also love the fact that it can adjust on the top and bottom, leaving it pretty compact. It just hangs over the table for the bigger canvas.

The drawer is great! My brushes fit in it amazingly well. Even the longer ones. There’s also 2 spots that will fit smaller things like pencils, erasers, sharpeners, etc.

Customer Comment: This was purchased as a Christmas gift for my mom-in-law and she hasn’t stopped talking about how much she loves it! She says it gives her much more flexibility while working on her sketches and paintings. Based on her expert opinion, I would highly recommend this product to any artist or anyone shopping for the perfect gift for the special artist in their life!

For more information on this portable table easel, please visit: Ravenna Table Easel with Drawer

See this TITLE: Tales from the Easel: American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, circa 1800-1950



Tales from the Easel features seventy full-color reproductions that convey the expressive, allusive powers of narrative painting. Though they range widely in subject and setting, all of the paintings gathered here are rendered in a representational, or realistic, style. Carrying moral, social, or patriotic messages, the paintings are meant to teach, enlighten, or inspire. Then again, the paintings can also tweak the very conventions that define them, with results that range from the delightfully idiosyncratic to the visionary. Thomas Hart Benton, Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, and Jacob Lawrence are just some of the household names whose work appears in Tales from the Easel. Others, like Elihu Vedder and Lilly Martin Spencer, are less well known, but still vital to the development of narrative painting. While some of the artists, including George Caleb Bingham and Paul Cadmus, were classically trained, self-taught painters such as Carlos “Shiney” Moon and Thomas Waterman Wood are also represented.

American rivers, cities, and battlefields are among the native surroundings shown in many of the paintings. However, artists also looked elsewhere for settings–to Europe, the Holy Land, or even some imagined realm. Charles C. Eldredge’s essay discusses the rich and varied sources of American narrative painting–from literature and history to childhood and domestic life–and an essay by William Underwood Eiland provides a discussion of the southern tale-telling tradition. Artist biographies by Reed Anderson and Stephanie J. Fox appear opposite the paintings, adding further context. Tales from the Easel, a companion volume to the national touring exhibit of the same name is a stunning reminder of a tradition in American painting that has endured across two centuries and numerous art movements.


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Conservation of Easel Paintings (Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology)



Conservation of Easel Paintings is the first comprehensive text on the history, philosophy, and methods of treatment of easel paintings that combines both theory with practice. With contributions from an international group of experts and interviews with important artists, this volume provides an all-encompassing guide to necessary background knowledge in technical art history, artists’ materials, scientific methods of examination and documentation, with sections that present varying approaches and methods for treatment, including consolidation, lining, cleaning, retouching, and varnishing. The book concludes with a section featuring issues of preventive conservation, storage, shipping, exhibition, lighting, safety issues, and public outreach. Conservation of Easel Paintings is a crucial resource in the training of conservation students and will provide generations of practicing paintings conservators and interested art historians, curators, directors, collectors, dealers, artists, and students of art and art history with invaluable information and guidance.


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