Selling The John Alvin Art Estate Collection

By: Leslie Combemale | February 6, 2026

Well, the cat, as they say, is out of the bag. The John Alvin Art Estate, a collection of over 1000 original pieces by John Alvin is going up for sale as one glorious collection. John Alvin is the cinema artist and creator of over 100 movie posters from the 70s, 80s, and 90s known

It’s A Peanuts Celebration & Sandy’s Retirement from Peanuts Animation!

By: Leslie Combemale | September 5, 2025

It’s very exciting to see It’s A Peanuts Celebration, such a great new limited edition, which came out on Tuesday after much consideration, work, and reworking on the part of Sandy at Sopwith and Peanuts animation director Larry Leichliter! It has so many great moments we all remember from our favorite Peanuts specials! See if

Disney’s Fantasia: History, Art, & Music of the 1940’s Classic

By: Leslie Combemale | December 6, 2024

Disney’s Fantasia, rightly, is one of the most beloved and appreciated films in Disney history. It’s a film I have loved it my whole life. My experience as a gallery owner though is that it’s also been loved by some of my favorite clients at ArtInsights. So often, the smartest and most engaged kids I

Spotlight on Scrooge McDuck: Character History and Uncle Scrooge Disney Fine Art

By: Leslie Combemale | September 5, 2024

Assuming you’re a Disney fan overall, your memories and appreciation of Scrooge McDuck, or Uncle Scrooge to his friends and family, largely depends on how old you are. Folks of the “Silent Generation”, all born before 1946, will remember him from his debut comic book in 1947, Christmas on Bear Mountain. Baby Boomers will remember

Alan Bodner: Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Mid Century Mod Art, & The Nostalgia of Classic TV

By: Leslie Combemale | June 7, 2024

So, why talk about Alan Bodner, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Mid Century Mod Art, and the nostalgia of classic TV? Because there’s NEW ART to show and discuss! YAY! As many of you know, I love nostalgia. That’s how I wound up both owning a film and animation art gallery and writing about movies. My knowledge of

Women Rocking Hollywood: Live Action Female Filmmakers and The Women of Disney Fine Art

By: Leslie Combemale | April 10, 2024

Recently, we travelled to LA for WonderCon to present the 10th Women Rocking Hollywood panel. The event is part of the other life of ArtInsights co-owner Leslie Combemale (that’s me!) as a film journalist, writing for the Motion Picture Association and on the Alliance of Women Film Journalist site. I am an enthusiastic supporter of

Welcome Home Franklin: Franklin Armstrong blog and gallery exhibit

By: Leslie Combemale | February 16, 2024

Those who’ve been reading my blog for a while, or who have collected art through ArtInsights are well aware that Franklin is my favorite HUMAN character…(Snoopy is my favorite creature, although i LOVE Woodstock!) I wrote a blog about Franklin about 3 years ago, which you can read HERE, about a lot of his history.

Welcome to ArtInsights 2.0: Our Hybrid Online & In-Person Art Gallery Model!

By: Leslie Combemale | October 31, 2023

Welcome to ArtInsights 2.0: A Hybrid Online & In-person Model! What, pray-tell, ArtInsights 2.0 look like? That’s what I’m here to lay down. First, for those of you who might want to know why we decided to close our brick and mortar gallery, here’s an article about it published in The Reston Letter,   Essentially, we

BIG NEWS: ArtInsights is Going Virtual!

By: Leslie Combemale | August 10, 2023

Hi! Leslie, co-owner of ArtInsights here, making a big announcement… That’s right, after 30 years in brick and mortar, we’re moving online-ArtInsights is going virtual-we’re SO excited about it, and hope you are, too! We’ve loved being in person and face to face all this time with our framing clients, and some of our art

Friz Freleng Pink Panther, and Animation History

By: Leslie Combemale | April 20, 2023

For those who love Pink Panther, and for those who just love a good origin story, do I have an animation yarn for you! Perfect to file under “the incredibly true life of a longtime animation art gallery owner”, I’m going to share how I wound up with a box of original production cels and

The Artistry and Art of Beauty and the Beast

By: Leslie Combemale | January 27, 2023

At ArtInsights, we have as many fans of Beauty and the Beast as we do for The Little Mermaid, and that’s saying something. Since we’re heading into Valentine’s season, the season of love, as it were, I thought I’d talk about the history, art, and fun facts about the tale as old as time. IT’S

10 Lesser-Known Christmas Cartoon Shorts for the Holidays

By: Leslie Combemale | November 25, 2022

The holiday season is upon us, once again! It’s time to watch some Christmas cartoon shorts to get us all in the mood. There’s much trouble in the world, of course, but this year it seems we can actually spend time together and celebrate love and light, whatever that might mean in terms of belief,

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