John Delmar, Artist

06/18/2026

So the deal with Iran involves a fund of $300 billion to help them develop, supposedly aided by other Mideast nations.
I think the US, from West Virginia to Detroit and rural America, needs better infrastructure, better trains, better buses, better bridges, better education for the poor.
Where is the money for high speed maglev rail from NY to California?
I'm glad we are not bombing schools in Iran, but I think Trump got the worse end of this deal.

By Andrew Mills, Maha El Dahan and Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, June 17 (Reuters) - A $300 billion private fund designed to trigger investment into Iran is outlined in the U.S.-Iran framework agreement and

06/17/2026

"Fear and Loathing in the Moonlight"
Watercolor and oil on paper.
(c) 2026 John Delmar.

06/16/2026

Harvard Alumni Day 2026.
With the parade of classes, only about six of us from the class of 1970.
After your 50th, they categorize alumni as Alta Kockers, and you are segregated into a tent called "Old Farts."
They assume anyone over 75 is lucky to be alive (I think life expectancy for men in the USA is around 74). Maybe they want us to leave Harvard a bequest in our wills.

06/15/2026

At J. Alden Weir's art studio.
Weir was one of a group of American artists, many trained in Paris, who were influenced by both the Barbizon School and the Impressionists.
His guests included John Singer Sargent and Childe Hassam and most of the Ten (Chase, Tarbell, Weir , Twachman, etc.)

06/15/2026

Mobile art studio of J. Alden Weir in Wilton Connecticut.
The "studio" has wood blades on the bottom, and could be towed.
At Weir Farm National Historical Park.

05/26/2026

After 2 1/2 days of a very rainy Memorial Day weekend spent upstate in Ghent and Millerton, then in Connecticut in Darien and Stamford, I came back to Sutton Place and finally the sun came out.

05/26/2026

In Ghent, NY with a large "Scapegoat" sculpture at Art Omi.

05/26/2026

From the S I Newhouse collection, a classic Po***ck "drip" painting at Christie's for $181.2 million.

05/26/2026

"Trees and Sky: Connecticut"
Watercolor on paper
(c) 2026 John Delmar

05/16/2026

"Karahantepe: smiling"
Watercolor on paper
(c) 2026 John Delmar
Karahantepe is an archeological site in Turkey with carved stone heads which are over 10,000 years old.