Edward Minoff
Triad, 2013, Courtesy Cavalier Galleries, Inc., Greenwich, ConnecticutCavalier Galleries, in Greenwich, Connecticut, recently hosted a solo exhibition (May 10–30, 2013) of seascape paintings by Edward...
View ArticleRobust and Reasoned
I have painted it with great care, as you will see, using none but the best colors I could get. It is painted with good ultramarine under, and over, and over that again, some five or six times; and...
View ArticlePowerful Intimacy
A recent exhibition of paintings by Maya Brodsky, at RARE Gallery in New York City, offered a compelling study in contrasts. The paintings on view were all small—usually under 12 inches square—and...
View ArticleThe Dark Light of Domenic Cretara
When in complete darkness the eye can see no light, the brain still creates its own light, an “Eigengrau” that can be willed into shapes in the retinal field. “Dark light” is the English name of this...
View ArticleMax Ginsburg
Bus Stop, 2010, Courtesy of the artistIn tracing the roots of his current paintings, Max Ginsburg starts with his father, Abraham, a successful portrait painter, a student of Charles Hawthorne and...
View ArticleGesturing with Light
Bridge of Sighs, c. 1903-4, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New YorkAt the turn of the twentieth century, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), the premier portrait painter of his day, shifted his attention,...
View ArticleFresh Looks at the Art of the Civil War
Martin Johnson Heade, Approaching Thunderstorm, 1859, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City“News of the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861 caught American artists as ill-prepared for a great war as...
View ArticleGlittering Images
Glittering Images: A Journey through Art from Egypt to “Star Wars” by Camille Paglia. New York: Pantheon Books. Illustrated, 202 pages. $30One would hope that the introduction to a book that offers the...
View ArticleCaribbean
Enrique Grau, Mulata Cartegenera, 1940, Courtesy Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, ColombiaCaribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World, edited by Deborah Cullen and Elvis Fuentes. New York: El...
View ArticleWilliam Trost Richards
William Trost Richards, Tintagel, 1881, National Academy Museum, New York City“William Trost Richards: Visions of Land and Sea,” at the National Academy Museum in New York City, draws on a 1954 bequest...
View ArticleColor as a Narrative Tool in Surimono Prints
Emperor Ming Huang and Yang Guifei Playing the Flute TogetherA show of surimono prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (March 9– December 1, 2013), “Luxury on Paper: The Art of Surimono,” has...
View ArticleMade in New Mexico
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt, Antelope, 1919, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DelawareAt its founding in 1917, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, adopted an “open door” unjuried...
View ArticleImpressionists on the Water
ImpressionistsontheWaterby Phillip Dennis Cate, Daniel Charles and Christopher Lloyd. New York: Skira Rizzoli, in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2013. 224 pages, illustrated....
View ArticleLani Irwin
Lani Irwin, Proscenium, 2000, Courtesy of the artist“My body, my self,” say the feminists, and most of Lani Irwin’s paintings picture the female body—sometimes more or less naked, as in...
View ArticleThe Paradox of the Portrait
The portrait has long been, if not despised, at least devalued as a genre of painting. In the academic European tradition, the portrait had to take its place in the hierarchy behind the philosophical,...
View ArticleBalthus, King of Cats
Girl at Window, 1955, Private CollectionThe life of the artist born Balthasar Klossowski (1908–2001) nearly spanned the twentieth century, yet he lived and painted his own, faintly anachronistic way....
View ArticleReflection Was the Real Intensity
There is nothing more mysterious than the power of an aged artist to give life to a blot or a scribble; it is as inexplicable as the power of a young poet to give life to a word.1 —Kenneth Clark George...
View ArticleAmericans at Leisure
Although one might think from his reputation that life was a day at the beach for Edward Henry Potthast, he actually did not begin his familiar depictions of seashore activities until he was in his...
View ArticleBalthus and Cats
This beautiful little book is a portrait of the artist as magus, and Alain Vircondelet is supremely comfort-able in the role of willing acolyte. Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski, 1908– 2001) was one of...
View ArticleIndustrial Sublime: Modernism and the Transformation of New York's Rivers...
Rivers epitomize the timeless beauty and vitality of nature; they are also engines of commerce and progress. “Industrial Sublime: Modernism and the Transformation of New York’s Rivers 1900–1940,”...
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