Time is running out!
There are only about two weeks left in the holiday season, so if you’re still looking for the perfect gift, you don’t have much time to spare.
If you’re feeling stuck, we’re here to help. Here are 13 perfect gift ideas for the art lover in your life.
2019 Waves White Wine
$10
Artist Jen Stark designed the label for the 2019 Waves White Wine. Photo courtesy of Las Jara Wines.
Las Jaras Wines in Sebastopol, California, enlisted Jen Stark, known for her hypnotic, rainbow-colored designs, to create the label for the company’s 2019 Waves White Wine. Made from French Colombard grapes, it boast flavors of white peach, honeydew melon, and grapefruit.
Architecture of Memory Pin
$10
Paula Crown’s Architecture of Memory Pin. Photo courtesy of the artist.
This enamel pin of a slightly crushed red Solo cup, based on the artist Paula Crown’s exhibition, “The Architecture of Memory,” which was shown during the 2018 Venice Biennale, is more than a cute accessory. Created by the artist as a comment on plastic waste and the excess and disposability of contemporary culture, it takes on added meaning in 2020 as a symbol of all the parties we couldn’t have this year.
Georgia O’Keefeet Socks
$12
Georgia O’Keefeet socks. Courtesy ChattyFeet.
For your art-loving friend with a wandering sole, these nutty art socks that riff on artist’s names are a fun, arty take on boring old holiday socks.
F Is for Fox Puzzle
$16
Haas Brothers, F Is for Fox Puzzle. Photo courtesy of Prospect New York.
Time-consuming thousand-piece puzzles had a lockdown resurgence this year, but this cheerful 12-piece number designed by the Haas Brothers for Prospect New York is geared toward a younger set.
Louis C. Tiffany Clematis Match Box
$19
Louis C. Tiffany Clematis Match Box. Photo courtesy of the New-York Historical Society.
This exquisite matchbox, based on Tiffany Studios’ Clematis floor lamp, was designed by Clara Driscoll (c. 1900–06), one of the Tiffany Girls whose previously overlooked role in the design and creation of the company’s leaded-glass masterpieces was revealed by the New-York Historical Society’s groundbreaking 2007 show, “A New Light on Tiffany.”
RxArt x FIGS Artist Capsule Masks
$25
FIGS and RxArt KISSES mask by Dan Colen. Photo courtesy of FIGS.
RxART is teaming up with medical apparel company FIGS to sell limited-edition artist-designed face masks. Choose from Dan Colen’s lipstick print design, a cat sketch by Ann Craven, or cartoon pandas by Rob Pruitt. A portion of the sales proceeds will support children’s hospitals throughout North America.
Pointillist Infinity Scarf
$29
Pointillist Infinity Scarf, featuring Henri Edmond Cross’ seascape, Two Women by the Shore, Mediterranean. Photo courtesy of the Barnes Collection, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation is selling a gorgeous, lightweight scarf featuring Henri Edmond Cross’s seascape, Two Women by The Shore, Mediterranean, from its collection. If that doesn’t quite fit anyone on your list, the museum’s virtual personal shopper is here to help.
(No Subject) Postcards
$35
(No Subject) Postcard based on the “Free Film” project. Photo courtesy of Worthless Studios.
New York nonprofit Worthless Studios has produced an open edition of artists’ postcards featuring photographs from its “Free Film” public art project. Participating artists receive a roll of film, a deadline for its return, and a phrase to prompt and inspire their film.
B is for Bob T-shirt
$38
B is for Bob T-shirt. Photo courtesy of Anchors-n-Asteroids.
The mother-daughter-duo behind Los Angeles’s Anchors-n-Asteroids have released a delightful series of eco-friendly shirts (made from post-consumer plastic bottles) featuring 10-year-old Pearl’s drawings of famous figures, many of them artists. Just try and resist the call of more-popular-than-ever Bob Ross and his bursting afro on this design.
13.7 T-shirt
£34
This 13.7 t-shirt represents the 13.7 percent of living artists represented by galleries in Europe and North America who are women. Photo courtesy of Art Girl Rising.
The latest offering from Art Girl Rising, which has long offered a line of black t-shirts listing the names of deserving women artists in crisp white type, is a plain t-shirt that reads “13.7.” That’s the percentage of living artists represented by European and North American galleries that are women—a great conversation-starter for your favorite art-world feminist.
VVrkshop Gift Card
From $100
VVrkshop gift card featuring artwork by Rosalie Rosenthal. Courtesy of VVrkshop.
Art writer Paddy Johnson founded VVrkshop, a professional training program for art workers, to help those in the industry hard hit in recent months. A gift card for the starving artist in your life could just be the professional support they need to get through to the other side.
UGG x Claire Tabouret Fluff Boot
$600
UGG x Claire Tabouret Fluff Boot. Photo courtesy of UGG.
French artist Claire Tabouret has released a line of cozy footwear and jackets with UGG, including these sheepskin boots, featuring one of her figurative paintings. Expensive, yes, but perhaps worth the splurge to keep your toes warm during winter-season outdoor socializing.
Gin From the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
£40
YSP Gin. Photo © Red Photography. Courtesy Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is selling a bespoke gin that features botanicals hand-picked from around the museum grounds, including apple blossom, pine spruce, and lavender. The label for the bottle is designed by artist and illustrator Tom Frost. (Alas, this one is only available to our friends in the UK.)