Category: American Art
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Fashioned by Sargent – a meeting of the masterpieces
This spectacular exhibition at the MFA Boston includes 50 major John Singer Sargent oil portraits alongside some of the clothing portrayed in them.
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Susie M. Barstow – Redefining the Hudson River School
Nancy Siegel’s Susie M. Barstow: Redefining the Hudson River School is the first-ever biography of hugely under-rated artist, teacher, and adventurer.
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Have a Sublime Halloween
Enjoy a few of my favorite Sublime landscape paintings, which are definitely frightening enough for Halloween.
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The Past: Thomas Cole’s imaginary tournament
Thomas Cole’s The Past (1838) is a cheerful depiction of a medieval tournament. Here are my many thoughts on this delightful painting.
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My Review of the American Art Fair Online
Here are my opinions about the virtual American Art Fair, including artworks that caught my eye and how the virtual experience compares to a live one.
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A New Graphic Novel Introduces Edmonia Lewis
As a big fan of 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis, I was excited to find out that she’s now the subject of a new graphic novel, Seen: Edmonia Lewis.
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Alexander von Humboldt and the United States – A Video Tour and an Interview
After a video tour of the Alexander von Humboldt exhibition at SAAM, I spoke to curator Dr. Eleanor Harvey Jones about Humboldt’s impact on American art.
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The Veterans Room: A Gilded Age Shrine at the Park Avenue Armory
Inside NYC’s Park Avenue Armory, the Gilded Age Veterans Room is a rare surviving interior by Louis Comfort Tifffany’s Associated Artists.
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The Landscape Paintings of Robert Duncanson
Robert Duncanson was an early Hudson River School painter in the United States and Canada. His work is gorgeous, but we don’t talk much about him today.
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Resurrecting Female Artists – an interview with Eve Kahn
Eve Kahn’s new book tells the life story of painter Mary Rogers Williams. Kahn sat talked with me about her work in resurrecting forgotten female artists.
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Miss Florence’s Painted Dining Room
The Florence Griswold Museum in CT was once a boarding house for American Impressionists, who decorated the dining room walls for their host.