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Winslow Homer and Working Girls
"He has chosen of the least pictorial features of the least pictorial range of scenery and civilization; he has resolutely treated them as if they were pictorial, as if they were every inch as good as...
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Albert Gleizes: Lazy Afternoon
"It's a lazy afternoonAnd the beetle bugs are zoomingAnd the tulip tress are bloomingAnd there's not another human in view" - Jerome Moross & John La Touche, lyrics for "Lazy Afternoon," a song...
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Flowers Under a Tree: Paul Georges & Gustav Klimt
The American painter Paul Georges (1923-2002) studied with Fernand Leger in Paris from 1949 to 1952 While there he met his future wife Lisette Blumenfeld at the studio of Constantine Brancusi.Before...
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Yvonne Jacquette: Up/Down/Inside/Out
Yvonne Jacquette died on April 23 at the age of eighty-eight. She had participated in planning an exhibition that combines early and recent work, now on view at the D.C. Moore Gallery in New York...
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Chatelaine: On the Stories of Hilma Wolitzer
"Some women marry houses." - excerpt from "Housewife" by Anne SextonThe housewife as chatelaine, as mistress of an establishment, was the 20th century successor to the woman who produced the goods...
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Adam Zagajewski: And That Is Why
"And that is why I paced the corridorsOf those great museumsGazing at paintings of a worldIn which David is blameless as a boy scoutGoliath earned his shameful deathWhile eternal twilight dims...
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Mood Indigo: Firelei Baez
"I started early - Took my dog - And visited the sea -The Mermaids in the Basement Came out to look at me -" - Emily DickinsonWe can intuit what Firelei Baez had in mind in this painting by...
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August Morisot: Cathedral of the Pines
"I hear you call, pine tree, I hear you on the hill, by the silent pondwhere the lotus flowers bloom, I hear you call, pine tree.What is it you call, pine tree, when the rains fall, when the windsblow...
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Ernest Chaplet: A Porcelain Life
"In such a porcelain life, one like to be sure that all is well, lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken pottery." - Emily DickinsonIn this marvelous vase designed by Ernest Chaplet...
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Andre Devambez: Crepuscule
Procession at Dusk is a pastel by French artist Andre Devambez. A twilight procession of monks is observed from afar as they move towards the lighted windows of the monastery. This scene is both...
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Seongmin Ahn : An Artist Of The Diaspora
“In my paintings, by symbolic action and opening a drawer, two seemingly separate dimensions become integrated. It is a matter of how to find connection and openness.” -Seongmin AhnLike alchemy,...
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Shaken, Not Stirred: The Retro Cocktail Hour
A heady mixture of gum-shoe jazz, space age pop, B-movie soundtracks, bossa nova, and all manner of musical exotica, Retro Cocktail Hour is hip, arch, and cool from a place that few would apply these...
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Helene Schjerfbeck: Through My Travels, I Found Myself
Paring its elements down to near abstraction, this moody landscape shows its Nordic origins. Helene Schjerfbeck has been called "Finland's Munch" for her status as an early modernist. I fancy this as...
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Georgia O'Keeffe's Autumn Leaves
"The falling leaves drift by the window,The autumn leaves of red and gold," excerpt from "Autumn Leaves," the English Lyrics by Johnny MercerHints of red and gold circle the center of this early...
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Two Women Crossing A Field: One Of van Gogh's Last Paintings
Vincent van Gogh died in July, 1890 at age thirty-seven. During his last few months van Gogh painted dozens upon dozens of landscapes. In July he wrote to his brother Theo that had immersed himself...
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Larger Than Life: The Flowers of Santido Pereira
"There are too many waterfalls, here, the crowded streamshurry too rapidly down to the sea, and the pressure of so many clouds on the mountaintopsmakes them spill over in soft slow-motionturning to...
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Diwali, Festival Of Candles And Light
"Even after all this timethe sun never says to the earth,"You owe me."Look what happensa love like thatlights the whole sky." - Hafiz (1325-1390), Persian lyric poetImage: Frantisek Kupka - Ordonnance...
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Helen Torr: Little Boat
Where is the lambent light Long Island is fabled for? In Helen Torr's Houses on a Boat the sky lowers over turbulent waters, possibly a reflection of the artist's own uncertain future. Painted...
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In the Footsteps of Dorothy Parker: Wendy Cope
"At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle,The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingleAnd happy families go to church and cheerily they mingleAnd the whole business is...
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Eileen Agar: Water Sprite
Try telling a fish about water. Dynamism radiates in all directions from Ondine. Underwater, she floats within a protective penumbra, rather like thee spikes of a porcupine. We also see a fish tail...
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A Commedia del arte Christmas
Marionettes, (puppets controlled by strings), have been performing at Christmas markets since medieval times. These marionettes included characters from the commedia del arte, such Pulcinella. The name...
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Ocotillo Nocturne
Those long ghostly black fingers, visible in silhouette, are the branches of the Ocotillo cactus. The 'vine cactus' is indigenous to the desert of the Imperial Valley. Tucked into the southeasternmost...
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Ebisu Catching a Goldfish
But perhaps the heartDoes not want to be understood. Your shadow falls on its pondand the small fish hurry away.They have their own lives,not yours, which they love.And if to you it is...
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Aymeric Fouquez: A Quiet Eye
"This landscape looks like a secretbecause the river can't be seenfrom the spot where I am standing.And there fore it isthe landscape where I most easilywould be able to do without myself.Among there...
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Berthe Morisot: Things You Can't See In A Painting
(T)here is only one true Impressionist in the whole revolutionary group - and that is Mlle Berthe Morisot." - Paul Mantz, 1877 When the Barnes Foundation organized their Berthe Morisot retrospective in...
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