Georgia O’Keeffe, Apple Family – 2, 1920, Oil on canvas, 8’ x 10”, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, Photo courtesy of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
We are accustomed to seeing works of art by Georgia O’Keeffe in prominent American museums, but there is a lot to be said for visiting the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM and experiencing her art on its own. … Continue reading
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Maybe you have seen stories about the art that President Biden chose to have in the Oval Office. I am just going to take a minute to write about one of those works of art, The Avenue in the Rain by the … Continue reading
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Robert Frank, the influential Swiss-American photographer died yesterday at the age of 94. He was best known for his groundbreaking book, The Americans, which documented the people he met on his cross-country road trips in the mid-1950s. In black and white, … Continue reading
Robert Therrien, Untitled (Folding Chairs and Table), 2008, Paint and metal, Table: 96” x 120” x 120”, Chairs: 104” x 64” x 72”, Image via Artsy.com.
The American artist Robert Therrien died earlier this week. He was 71 years old. Therrien is best known for his amusing sculptures of functional, mass-produced objects from everyday life that are enlarged to a scale that fills a room. Surely, … Continue reading
Charles White, Awaken from the Unknowing, 1961, Charcoal and Wolff crayon on paperboard, Private Collection, Photo via the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
The retrospective exhibition of over 100 prints, drawings, and paintings by the artist Charles White (1918-1979) has moved from MoMA to LACMA, where it will be on view through June 9, 2019. The artist was a superb draftsman who altered … Continue reading
Mark Bradford, Constitution IV, 2013, Mixed Media on Canvas, 132
Mark Bradford employs a décollage technique using layers of found printed materials to build up the surfaces of his canvases before manipulating them by alternately sanding them and building them back up again with more paper. The texts or images … Continue reading
Charles Sheeler, Upper Deck, 1929, oil on canvas, 28 ¾” x 21 ¾”, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, currently on view in the Cult of the Machine exhibition.
This is the last week that the exhibition Cult of the Machine will be on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. If you can’t see it there, you will be able to catch it at the Dallas Museum … Continue reading
David Douglas Duncan, Cover photograph for This is War!, 1951
Earlier this month, David Douglas Duncan, one of the most influential photographers of the 20thcentury, passed away at the age of 102. His career as a photojournalist began auspiciously when he was a college student and he photographed a hotel … Continue reading
Eva Hesse, Sans II, 1968, fiberglass and polyester resin, 38
Eva Hesse was an artist at the center of the Post-Minimalist art movement. There are many “Post-” art movements in the history of art, which simply is a way of describing art that expands upon some of the achievements of … Continue reading
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton), 1836, Oil on canvas, 51½
On January 29th, Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings will open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition features the Hudson River School founder’s masterpieces The Oxbow and The Course of the Empire series as points of departure to examine … Continue reading
Nan Goldin, Pain/Sackler, Royal College of Art, London, 2017, and Oxy Script, 2017.
Corporations and art museums have become more closely connected in recent decades because each benefit greatly from the alliance. The businesses and their owners enjoy good PR and tax write-offs, and the museums get the financial support that is so … Continue reading
Grandma Moses, Christmas at Home, early 20th century, Photo via Wikiart.com
Nothing conveys holiday warmth like a Christmas scene by Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses, 1860-1961). It wasn’t long after she began her painting career in her late 70s that this self-taught artist attracted the attention of Hallmark Cards, Inc. … Continue reading