What was your favourite piece of art you own? I have a sketch of the farm my ancestor built

[applegrove]

and my grandmother ran when she was married. Including the appletrees that are my computer namesake. I have a composite photo I took of the backyard and garden of my other grandmother's house. These two works remind me of their characters and strengths. I was close to both of them. They taught me to take the long view of life. And that has saved me more than once.

[gratuitous]

1. I have a very nice "official" reproduction of this

Bought it many years ago for a couple grand. I have no idea what it's worth now. I suppose I could check into that.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. a 1978 The Ring poster

which I got after The Ring had finished in Seattle that year.
I saved it all these years and finally got it framed in 2005.

Seattle Opera is famous for its annual production of Wagner's The Ring.
In the 70's, the posters announcing each year's production were collector's items.

[blaze]

3. I have a pastel that was done of my Grandmother in 1888

The artist was Dabour.

[applegrove]

4. I'd love to have a painting of either one of my grandmothers. You are lucky.

[blaze]

7. I agree!!

She was about 18 months old in this pastel.

I'm single and childless... need to find an heir to pass it on to.

[riderinthestorm]

5. The two paintings of my daughters.

I LOVE one of them by a Michigan artist (James Brandess) when he was just starting out and wanted interesting people to paint in his studio he set up right on Main St, Saugatuck. Its my older girl when she was 9.

One of my boarders painted my younger girl with her pony at the same age. It's fine, she's cute and it's accurate but just not the same quality however I love the subject matter so much, its still one of my favorites (Jim was already priced WAAYYY out of our price range by the time my younger girl was 9).

Runner up would be the embroidered "horse" one of my clients got for me in Egypt. Its actually the phrase "As Salaam Alaikum" in Arabic script formed into the most beautiful, highly stylized horse. It magnificent and so, so unusual it stops everyone who sees it.

[Wait Wut]

6. The origami swan...

...that my DIL made for me a few years ago. There's something about its simplicity that calms me down. That and the painting my son brought me from Thailand. It's of a river and waterfall with a little village on the shore. I can get lost in it imagining what it would be like to be in such a peaceful, beautiful place.

[kentauros]

8. I have several signed and numbered lithographs by pin-up artist

Olivia De Berardinis. This one is my favorite, and hope to have it framed one day:

[benld74]

9. Art produced by oldest daughter when in H.S.

One an oil of a beach scene, The other a charcoal containing images of STL. It won a local award and had showing at local art gallery in 2010. Very proud.

[Major Nikon]

10. A velvet painting of dogs playing poker

[graywarrior]

11. My own stuff

[HopeHoops]

12. My collection of my grandmother's oil paintings. Too many to list.

[HeiressofBickworth]

13. Charles Bragg lithograph

called "Bibliophile". If you haven't seen it, it is a drawing of a funky old man standing in a library with books on the shelves behind him and on a table next to him. All the titles on the books are puns. Although it hangs above the fireplace in the living room, no one living here knows that the titles are puns. I doubt they have ever really examined it. I've had it over 30 years and I still chuckle at it.

[GoCubsGo]

14. A watercolor of the mountains and desert outside of Tucson, AZ

It was painted by the wife of the founder of the lab where I used to work. I wish I had the painting she did of the salt marshes of one of the barrier islands off the Georgia coast, but one of my grad school professors owns that one.

[grntuscarora]

15. A sepia photograph of my great-grandfather and some co-workers circa 1905

He was a brickyard worker and a union organizer.