Lowell Libson, ensconced at Mitchell-Innes & Nash (1018 Madison Avenue, at 78th Street), has a nearly all-English presentation that includes several lively landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough and a small but majestic little study, "The Cedars of Lebanon" by Edward Lear, best known as the probable inventor of the limerick.
Surrounded by a ton of lively landscaping, many guests find that taking a shower here feels like a wild jungle experience -- we half-expected a monkey to steal our soap!
Taveras works with blank plains but also lively city landscapes and interiors so gilded and curtained they are almost baroque.
Ketchum's lovely landscape inspires a lively arts scene.
What was wonderful was how much livelier the gorgeous landscape of this city became when this cadre of exotic creatures in all their raiment — skyscraper stilettos, lace mantillas, riding habits, Mr. Pearl corsets and bondage boots — made their invasion.
They jiggle the landscape in lively fashion, and one, a snow scene in Prospect Park packed with animated participants, is a delight.
You wouldn't, you guess, want to live in this landscape full-time, but as a tourist destination, it certainly makes for a lively hour or so.
The company states: "Think of it as the Irish equivalent of Britain's Land's End to John O'Groats, but with rugged coastline, Irish music, unique landscapes and lively pubs".
Among the highlights are Stephanie Bloom's "Who Goes There," a small abstract gouache in which a knot of snakelike shapes implies an unsolved problem; "The Lily Pond," Evelyn Kandel's shadow-box collage of handmade paper that invites the eye to probe the water's depths; and Margaret Owen's "Blue Mountains," a stylized landscape festooned with lively dots and dashes of metallic paint.
Lavishly landscaped and decorated, lively and bright, the acclaimed establishment maintains a sense of its place in the history of Long Island, as Mr. Nelkin wished.
