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The Late Flowers Of Leon Dabo
"We come like water, go like wind."That's not an exact quote from the 28th verse of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam but, after reading Maurice Maeterlinck's The Intelligence of Flowers, it strikes me as...
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Rene Vincent: May At The BNF
Bugatti, Peugeot, Michelin: all names associated with speed and all companies whose reputations were enhanced by their association with the Frenchman Rene Vincent (1879-1936). Vincent began by...
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Searching For A. H. Fish
John Held, Jr. Miguel Covarrubias, A.H. Fish. All illustrators, all important contributors to magazines of the 1920s, all represented in anthologies of graphic art. Held was the one who produced the...
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Antonin Personnaz: Our Contemporary
Subtle washes of blue and pink are what we notice first, then the jaunty red hull of the little boat that steams along an unnamed but strangely familiar-looking French river. In spite of those muted...
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"Everything Was Already There": Jan Groover
"I pretended I was a painter, for awhile. Almost as soon as I got out of school I started photographing - photographing the history of photography, repeating lots of things. I was still pretending I...
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Chekhov, Our Contemporary
Sonya: "....it's incredibly interesting. He (Astrov) plants new trees every year; he's already gotten a bronze medal and a certificate. And he's a leader in the campaign to preserve the old-growth...
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A Summer Landscape: Vilhelm Hammershoi
“We must never assume that artists did not see what they did not paint.” – E.H. Gombrich.But how often do we look at a painting and not assume that it includes everything the artist saw? Like the...
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Jozsef Rippl-Ronai: June At The BNF
If the history of art as we understand it is Eurocentric, that is hardly the fault of the French, who have long acted as though the entire continent is just an appendage to Paris. Like every notion,...
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Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna
“Of the artists who founded the Vienna Secession, Kolo Moser was unabashedly the boldest and one of those who caused Viennese philistines the most trouble in the early days of the Secession. Wherever...
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Franz Werfel's Scenes From A Marriage
"Between too early and too late there is never more than a moment." - Franz Werfel, 1944.Frnaz Werfel called it an "intricate little tale of a marriage" and if that were all that Pale Blue Ink In A...
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Selling The New Art in Vienna
Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and Koloman Moser: founders of the Vienna Secession in 1897 and also founders of the breakaway group the Wiener Werkstatte in 1905. The trio came to be known as the...
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Selling The New Art In Vienna - Another Way
"Gingerbread and baked goods." Yes, this is a picture of a bake sale. Not an ordinary bake sale. A bake sale with sweets designed by Koloman Moser and Carl Otto Czeschka. And these were not...
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Fritz & Lili Waerndorfer: Art Patrons In New Vienna
Lili Hellmann Waerndorfer (b. Vienna, 29. September 1874 - d. Nyack, California, May 1952) was an unconventional woman who deserves to be better remembered. Not so much for her enlightened art...
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Waders
Birds visit the Atlantic coast at every season. The Great Atlantic Flyway lives up to its name as a vast avian migratory route between the Arctic and the Caribbean. Like the fish in the water, birds...
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Helene Funke: A Viennese Fauve
Is In The Loge a tribute by the Austrian Helene Funke (1869-1957) to another expatriate artist in Paris, Mary Cassatt, who painted a similar scene with the same title? This is just the first of...
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Sonja Knips: A Patron And Her Collection
Hers is the face staring watchfully from Gustav Klimt's Whistlererian Portrait Of Sonia Knips (1898, Belvedere Gallery, Vienna). In the painting, a young woman wears an elaborate pink cake of a...
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Rediscovering Broncia Koller
Modernism is a story men tell themselves. Told often enough, the story takes on the status of history. The standard narrative of the new art in early 20th century Vienna is especially egregious in...
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Feel The Wind Blow: Nell Brooker Mayhew
At first glance, this could be a monotype by Edgar Degas. Instead of rural Burgundy, though we have the Pacific coast of California in By The Sea (1920), a color etching by an American artist, once...
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Henri Le Sidaner: The Missing Picture
All those well-appointed tables set for a meal, all those paper lanterns bobbing from the trees, all those lighted windows, all those deserted moonlit nights.... all those missing people. That's one...
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Carl Moll And The Semi-Detached House
“It is no abstract or decorative surface geometry, which surrounds these people, but a three-dimensional, straightforward clarity.” - Werner Hofmann, Modern Malerei in Osterreich (Modern painting In...
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