May 2015

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: For awhile, my grandfather lived in San Francisco and was a business partner of his brother, Oscar. They remodeled houses and built cabinets. Hugo is listed as a house painter on Vic’s birth certificate. Rosemary told me after the brothers went their own way, Victor Hugo ended up living in…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Lake Temescal in Oakland became a Mecca for Poets and Plein Air Artists. The poet, George Sterling met Ambrose Bierce at a campsite on the lake where the Presco children used to go swimming. These two men would found the Bohemian Club where some of the richest men in the…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: My uncle Vincent Rice became my art patron when I was sixteen. I had given him a seascape I had done, that he had framed and proudly hung over his mantle. Later, he would save a painting I did when I was thirteen, and frame it. I worked at Vinnie’s…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: There isn’t a gun nut in America who doesn’t see himself as a Long Hunter all alone in the wilderness, shooting at hostile heathens who do not believe in the Killer Jesus of Tim Lahaye, and thuse these tribal socialist parasties of Satan deserved to lose their land to God…

Chris Wandel called me two days ago. She heard there was trouble brewing my way, in Oregon. She heard this on Coast to Coast Radio. I told her it was PAID FOR trouble coming from the Koch Brothers who bought the Republican party so they can own a hammer to flatten all the Democrats. Since…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: It is extremely rare that two women who bare the name Rosamond and Rosemond on their birth certificate would become big players in the Art World, along with family members. Christine Rosamond Benton, and Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, are distant cousins who share the same great grandfather, James Rosamond. What is…

“A year later in 2001, the accolades continued, as Golf Digest named Pebble Beach the No.1 Golf Course in America, marking the first time ever that a public golf course had held the top spot.” Pebble Beach is a public golf course. How is it that the Pebble Beach Company can bar artists and photographers…

Yesterday I discovered Virginia Hambley is related to Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force who authored the fairy tale Persinette that the Grimm brothers turned into the story, Repunzel. Add to this the Grail and Knight Romances of Geoffrey de La Tour-Landry, and his relation to Rene de Anjou, and we are looking at one of the…

“Am I the Reincarnation of Leonardo Da Vinci?” When I asked this question in several yahoo-groups, I was reviled and banned. The Sinclair family hated my question the most. They set out to discredit me, they seeing me a usurper – of course! I showed those who hated me the Artistic Dynasty in my Family…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: “Morris preferred to preserve his freedom of invention. His solution was brilliantly simple: the story is one told by the descendants of the Wolfings many years later, and as with the Saga of the Volsungs, events have become garbled with retelling.” Above we see the oldest dutch painting in existence.…