🐕🎨 Today's #ArtfulPup selection is this scarf designed by Jane Gaston for the centennial of the Middleburg Hunt in 2006. It is on view at the Museum of Hounds and Hunting in Leesburg, Virginia.
#museumdogs #canineart #dogsinmuseums #foxhound
#museumdogs #canineart #dogsinmuseums #foxhound
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🐕🎨 Today's #ArtfulPup selection is this scarf designed by Jane Gaston for the centennial of the Middleburg Hunt in 2006. It is on view at the Museum of Hounds and Hunting in Leesburg, Virginia.
#museumdogs #canineart #dogsinmuseums #foxhound
#museumdogs #canineart #dogsinmuseums #foxhound
🎨 🐕 The animal in Pierre Bonnard’s 1926 painting, “The Barge ‘St. Tropez’ in the Harbor of Cannes” is admittedly ambiguous, but we’re calling it an #ArtfulPup since the artist was fond of dogs and frequently included them in his works! Would you agree? This piece is at the National Gallery of Art.
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🎨 🐕 The animal in Pierre Bonnard’s 1926 painting, “The Barge ‘St. Tropez’ in the Harbor of Cannes” is admittedly ambiguous, but we’re calling it an #ArtfulPup since the artist was fond of dogs and frequently included them in his works! Would you agree? This piece is at the National Gallery of Art.
🎨 🐕 Poster dogs in early 20th-c Gaines ads often emphasized strength & loyalty. Gaines Dog Meal fueled dogs on Admiral Byrd’s 1939 Antarctic expedition and was also fed to U.S. Army military scout dogs. This #ArtfulPup was aboard the Connecticut Company 1160 trolley at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
November 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🎨 🐕 Poster dogs in early 20th-c Gaines ads often emphasized strength & loyalty. Gaines Dog Meal fueled dogs on Admiral Byrd’s 1939 Antarctic expedition and was also fed to U.S. Army military scout dogs. This #ArtfulPup was aboard the Connecticut Company 1160 trolley at the Seashore Trolley Museum.
🎨🐕 Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girls Scouts of the USA, was an animal lover. During her lifetime, she had > 70 pet birds, cats, horses, and dogs, including this week’s #ArtfulPup: her Airedale Robin! This 2014 statue of the pair by Nina de Burgh is at Low's birthplace in Savannah, GA.
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girls Scouts of the USA, was an animal lover. During her lifetime, she had > 70 pet birds, cats, horses, and dogs, including this week’s #ArtfulPup: her Airedale Robin! This 2014 statue of the pair by Nina de Burgh is at Low's birthplace in Savannah, GA.
🎨 🐕 #ArtfulPup alert! Can you spot novelist Stephen King & his dogs in this tiny model of his Bangor home? Buz and Helen Beal replicated it as part of their passion project: creating the Maine Central Model Railroad in HO scale. Marvel in all the details at Kennebunkport's Seashore Trolley Museum.
October 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨 🐕 #ArtfulPup alert! Can you spot novelist Stephen King & his dogs in this tiny model of his Bangor home? Buz and Helen Beal replicated it as part of their passion project: creating the Maine Central Model Railroad in HO scale. Marvel in all the details at Kennebunkport's Seashore Trolley Museum.
🎨🐕 Well, hello there, #ArtfulPup! This week’s canine art feature is English artist William Barraud’s circa 1845 oil painting of Lord Henry Bentinck’s terrier and foxhounds. From the collection of Paul and Bunny Mellon, we saw it on view during the Rokeby Community Festival in Upperville, VA.
October 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 Well, hello there, #ArtfulPup! This week’s canine art feature is English artist William Barraud’s circa 1845 oil painting of Lord Henry Bentinck’s terrier and foxhounds. From the collection of Paul and Bunny Mellon, we saw it on view during the Rokeby Community Festival in Upperville, VA.
🎨 🐕 Meet Buster, the “Coal Saving Dog” as this week's #ArtfulPup. His 1924 pic appears in the Savannah History Museum. Buster was a Central of Georgia Railway foreman’s pet, trained to round up any spilled lumps of coal. Buster’s dedication to fuel economy earned him local publicity and lots of fans
September 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨 🐕 Meet Buster, the “Coal Saving Dog” as this week's #ArtfulPup. His 1924 pic appears in the Savannah History Museum. Buster was a Central of Georgia Railway foreman’s pet, trained to round up any spilled lumps of coal. Buster’s dedication to fuel economy earned him local publicity and lots of fans
🎨🐕 #ArtfulPup sighting! This sleek and stylish greyhound sculpture is fitting decor for Savannah, Georgia's popular restaurant The Grey, housed in a faithfully restored art deco Greyhound Bus terminal from the late 1930s.
#canineart #dogsinart #Savannah
#canineart #dogsinart #Savannah
September 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 #ArtfulPup sighting! This sleek and stylish greyhound sculpture is fitting decor for Savannah, Georgia's popular restaurant The Grey, housed in a faithfully restored art deco Greyhound Bus terminal from the late 1930s.
#canineart #dogsinart #Savannah
#canineart #dogsinart #Savannah
🎨🐕 #ArtfulPup sightings aplenty at The Olde Pink House in Savannah, Georgia! This stately mansion opened in 1771 as Habersham House and over the years has been a bank, Civil War headquarters, bookstore, and more before its current incarnation as a fine restaurant and tavern.
#dogsinart #canineart
#dogsinart #canineart
September 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 #ArtfulPup sightings aplenty at The Olde Pink House in Savannah, Georgia! This stately mansion opened in 1771 as Habersham House and over the years has been a bank, Civil War headquarters, bookstore, and more before its current incarnation as a fine restaurant and tavern.
#dogsinart #canineart
#dogsinart #canineart
🎨🐕 Now that's a big dog! This week's #ArtfulPup is "Duke Dog," standing over 6' tall and weighing in at more than 2,100 lbs! Lee Leuning's bronze statue of James Madison University's mascot poses by the campus Athletic Performance Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
#dogsinart #jmudukes #bulldog
#dogsinart #jmudukes #bulldog
September 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 Now that's a big dog! This week's #ArtfulPup is "Duke Dog," standing over 6' tall and weighing in at more than 2,100 lbs! Lee Leuning's bronze statue of James Madison University's mascot poses by the campus Athletic Performance Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
#dogsinart #jmudukes #bulldog
#dogsinart #jmudukes #bulldog
🎨🐕 Check out the #ArtfulPup outside Philadelphia's Independence Hall in 1858! This painting by Danish-American artist Ferdinand Richart hangs in the Green Room of the White House.
#dogsinart #canineart #museumdogs #dogsinmuseums
#dogsinart #canineart #museumdogs #dogsinmuseums
August 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🎨🐕 Check out the #ArtfulPup outside Philadelphia's Independence Hall in 1858! This painting by Danish-American artist Ferdinand Richart hangs in the Green Room of the White House.
#dogsinart #canineart #museumdogs #dogsinmuseums
#dogsinart #canineart #museumdogs #dogsinmuseums
🎨🐕 This week's #ArtfulPup is the dalmatian sitting atop the Seagrave Fire Engine, in use from 1929 to 1947 and on view at the Leesburg Fire Museum.
#dogsinmuseums #museumdogs #dalmatian
#dogsinmuseums #museumdogs #dalmatian
August 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🎨🐕 This week's #ArtfulPup is the dalmatian sitting atop the Seagrave Fire Engine, in use from 1929 to 1947 and on view at the Leesburg Fire Museum.
#dogsinmuseums #museumdogs #dalmatian
#dogsinmuseums #museumdogs #dalmatian
🎨🐕 Spotted in the murals at Vanish Farmwoods Brewery in Leesburg, Virginia, "Bob" is this week's #ArtfulPup. Yes, we petted Bob.
#canineart #dogsinart #intrepidpupYonder
#canineart #dogsinart #intrepidpupYonder
August 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🎨🐕 Spotted in the murals at Vanish Farmwoods Brewery in Leesburg, Virginia, "Bob" is this week's #ArtfulPup. Yes, we petted Bob.
#canineart #dogsinart #intrepidpupYonder
#canineart #dogsinart #intrepidpupYonder
🎨🐕 Well, whadya know? There was an #ArtfulPup at the signing of the Magna Carta...or at least there is in this 1937 mural at the Department of Justice Building in Washington, DC. This piece was one in a series of 18 Boardman Robinson did depicting "Great Codifiers of the Law." #dogsinart #canineart
August 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🎨🐕 Well, whadya know? There was an #ArtfulPup at the signing of the Magna Carta...or at least there is in this 1937 mural at the Department of Justice Building in Washington, DC. This piece was one in a series of 18 Boardman Robinson did depicting "Great Codifiers of the Law." #dogsinart #canineart
🎨🐕 Igloo--a white terrier--is the #ArtfulPup and faithful companion of pioneer aviator and polar explorer, Admiral Richard Byrd (1888-1957). This 1997 statue of the pair is by Jay Morton and stands in Byrd's hometown of Winchester, Virginia.
#dogsinart #canineart
#dogsinart #canineart
August 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🎨🐕 Igloo--a white terrier--is the #ArtfulPup and faithful companion of pioneer aviator and polar explorer, Admiral Richard Byrd (1888-1957). This 1997 statue of the pair is by Jay Morton and stands in Byrd's hometown of Winchester, Virginia.
#dogsinart #canineart
#dogsinart #canineart
🎨🐕 Today's #ArtfulPup comes to you from the Robert Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington DC. The sled dogs are on one of 12 panels depicting the "Physiographic and Industrial Regions of the National Domain" created by Henry Kreis in 1933-34.
#canineart #dogsinart #museumdogs
#canineart #dogsinart #museumdogs
July 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 Today's #ArtfulPup comes to you from the Robert Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington DC. The sled dogs are on one of 12 panels depicting the "Physiographic and Industrial Regions of the National Domain" created by Henry Kreis in 1933-34.
#canineart #dogsinart #museumdogs
#canineart #dogsinart #museumdogs
🎨🐕 Q: When is an #ArtfulPup also a "good old dog"? A: When it's a pictured example for the letter "D" in an 1890 educational wall chart by Marcius Willson & N.A. Calkins, on view at the Library of Congress.
#dogsinart #museumdog #canineart
#dogsinart #museumdog #canineart
July 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🎨🐕 Q: When is an #ArtfulPup also a "good old dog"? A: When it's a pictured example for the letter "D" in an 1890 educational wall chart by Marcius Willson & N.A. Calkins, on view at the Library of Congress.
#dogsinart #museumdog #canineart
#dogsinart #museumdog #canineart
🎨 🐕 You can thank expressionist painter Fritz Scholder (La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians) for this week’s #ArtfulPup. It appears in his 1968 piece, “Three Navajos and a Dog” from the museum collection of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
#canineart #museumdog #dogsinmuseums #dogsinart
#canineart #museumdog #dogsinmuseums #dogsinart
July 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🎨 🐕 You can thank expressionist painter Fritz Scholder (La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians) for this week’s #ArtfulPup. It appears in his 1968 piece, “Three Navajos and a Dog” from the museum collection of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
#canineart #museumdog #dogsinmuseums #dogsinart
#canineart #museumdog #dogsinmuseums #dogsinart
🎨🐾 Time for your weekly #ArtfulPup, and this time it's the dogs in Mary Sheppard Burton's 1999 hooked rug entitled, "The First Meals on Wheels." In it, the artist depicts her mother bicycling through Salisbury, MD, delivering soup. See it on view at the Library of Congress.
July 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🎨🐾 Time for your weekly #ArtfulPup, and this time it's the dogs in Mary Sheppard Burton's 1999 hooked rug entitled, "The First Meals on Wheels." In it, the artist depicts her mother bicycling through Salisbury, MD, delivering soup. See it on view at the Library of Congress.
🎨🐕 Your #ArtfulPup is the "hound dog" in this vintage Elvis Presley pinball machine--one of several music-themed ones appropriately spotted at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
#dogsinart #canineart #arcade #pinball #elvis #hounddog
#dogsinart #canineart #arcade #pinball #elvis #hounddog
June 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 Your #ArtfulPup is the "hound dog" in this vintage Elvis Presley pinball machine--one of several music-themed ones appropriately spotted at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
#dogsinart #canineart #arcade #pinball #elvis #hounddog
#dogsinart #canineart #arcade #pinball #elvis #hounddog
🎨🐕 Your #ArtfulPup is the "hound dog" in this vintage Elvis Presley pinball machine--one of several music-themed ones appropriately spotted at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
#dogsinart #canineart #arcade #pinball #elvis #hounddog
#dogsinart #canineart #arcade #pinball #elvis #hounddog
June 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 Your #ArtfulPup is the "hound dog" in this vintage Elvis Presley pinball machine--one of several music-themed ones appropriately spotted at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
#dogsinart #canineart #arcade #pinball #elvis #hounddog
#dogsinart #canineart #arcade #pinball #elvis #hounddog
🎨🐕 Today's #ArtfulPup is a topiary dog, spotted in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, at Green Animals Topiary Garden -- the oldest in the nation! The Brayton family purchased the estate in 1872, and the topiary began in 1912. Today, there are more than 80 topiary sculptures on the seven-acre grounds.
June 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 Today's #ArtfulPup is a topiary dog, spotted in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, at Green Animals Topiary Garden -- the oldest in the nation! The Brayton family purchased the estate in 1872, and the topiary began in 1912. Today, there are more than 80 topiary sculptures on the seven-acre grounds.
🎨🐕 Carved from poplar is James Mellick’s depiction of US Air Force German Shepherd Robson who served 6 yrs as a Patrol and Explosive Detection Dog with his handler TSgt. David Simpson. #ArtfulPup Robbie was spotted in the "Wounded Warrior Dogs" traveling exhibition in 2024 at the Napa Valley Museum.
June 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 Carved from poplar is James Mellick’s depiction of US Air Force German Shepherd Robson who served 6 yrs as a Patrol and Explosive Detection Dog with his handler TSgt. David Simpson. #ArtfulPup Robbie was spotted in the "Wounded Warrior Dogs" traveling exhibition in 2024 at the Napa Valley Museum.
🎨🐕 The Orange County Thanksgiving Hunt is the subject of this week’s #ArtfulPup feature, painted by sporting artist Gail Guirreri-Maslyk. These huntsmen and foxhound are on view in the Salamander Resort’s Equestrian Center in Middleburg, VA.
#dogsinart #canineart
#dogsinart #canineart
June 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 The Orange County Thanksgiving Hunt is the subject of this week’s #ArtfulPup feature, painted by sporting artist Gail Guirreri-Maslyk. These huntsmen and foxhound are on view in the Salamander Resort’s Equestrian Center in Middleburg, VA.
#dogsinart #canineart
#dogsinart #canineart
🎨🐕 This week's #ArtfulPup was spotted on the counter of the Waterford, Virginia, post office, which has been at this location since 1897. Drop a penny in the dish, and this exuberant dog laps it up!
June 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🎨🐕 This week's #ArtfulPup was spotted on the counter of the Waterford, Virginia, post office, which has been at this location since 1897. Drop a penny in the dish, and this exuberant dog laps it up!