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Late Summer: Matisse at Collioure
"I believe that painting will make me crazy, and I am going to try to get out of it as soon as possible." - Henri Matisse, from a letter to his friend Henri Manguin, late summer, 1904 The sky...
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Francoise Gilot's Recent Montoypes
"Cigarette papers datebook and tobacco pouchLifeOught to be like paintingstillAnd literatureA hatless headEyes straightCommaA flat nose a planeOn the foreheadMy portraitMy heart beatsIt's an alarm...
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Arts & Sciences: Rene Henri Digeon & Amedee Guillemin
There is an almost psychedelic aspect to this image of light refracted through a soap bubble that dates from 1868.Rene-Henri Digeon was a French intaglio printer and engraver who won First Prize at the...
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Elizabeth Harrower: Under a Clamorous Sky
"You have a remarkable, sober acerbity, an almost historical view (the long prospect - I wonder) and the fragrance and nuttiness of the kernel, with the nutshell dispensed with...You are unique, a...
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Felix Vallotton: Premature Photorealist ?
At first glance these carefully arranged peppers appear to be circling each other warily, like contestants in a beauty contest. Or the presence of a knife suggests an illustration from a contemporary...
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On the Fly: Drawings of Eugene Delacroix
"Color always occupies me but drawing preoccupies me." - Eugene DelacroixYou can see both impulses at work in Fleurs de laurier-rose (oleanders to English speakers), delicate gradations of red peppered...
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Jasper Cropsey: Trenton High Falls
" This mode of study productive of knowledge - it makes a man a botanist, a geologist, he is not satisfied seeing things merely upon the surface. He studies deeper. The knowledge he gains is...
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Berthe Morisot: Creating Her Own Light
"Men are inclined to believe that they fill all of one's life, but as for me, I think that no matter how much affection one mght feel for one's husband, it will not be easy to break off a life of work....
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Ostend,1902: Leon Spilliaert, Resident - Stefan Zweig, Visitor
"A day of travel like many others over these past years. Is it because the world shakes on its foundations that one is so used to living in perpetual movement? Is it a premonition that a time is...
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Inspired by Lascaux: Elaine de Kooning & Eric Chevillard
I. Although she is better known for her portraits (1918-1989), Elaine de Kooning was a painter of vivid and vigorous abstraction; for her abstraction was definitely an expressive mode. Her aim for her...
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Joan of Arc: Juana Romani & Anna Hyatt Huntington
This Joan of Arc is not the thirteen year old peasant girl who heard angelic voices urging her to lead an army in battle during the Hundred Years' War. Yet she is magnificent and possessed of a sense...
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In A New Light: Faith Ringold's American People
The pairing of this painting by Faith Ringgold with Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in one of the newly rehung galleries at the Museum of Modern Art has attracted much comment even before the...
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Painting With Fruit: Carmen Argote
"Did I tell you aboutmy mother's avocado ado?She grew it from a pit.Secretly, slowly in the dark,it put out grub-white rootswhich filled a jelly jar.From this unlikely start,an avocado tree with...
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If You Live, You'll See: Recovering Nancy Hale
"Qui vivra, verra." If you live, you'll see. An apt epigraph to describe the American author Nancy Hale.Nancy Hale was eleven years old when her mother painted her portrait. Immediately I first saw...
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Peasant Burning Weeds: A New Van Gogh
"I don't think I shall be able to do justice to the countryside because words fail me(.)... Level planes or strips, varied in color, that grow narrower & narrower as they approach the horizon....
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Albert Marquet: A View of the River
"Let's leave the studio and go watch what moves." - Albert MarquetWater moves. We all know that, but until the French Impressionists began to paint en plein air water in paintings did not move. Think...
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Albert Marquet: The View From His Balcony
"Let's leave the studio and go watch what moves." - Albert MarquetWater moves. We all know that but until eh French Impressionists began to paint en plein air in paintings water did not not move....
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Susan Frecon's Renaissance Art
"I always craved geometric solutions. They underlie so many things: architecture and old paintings that are informed by geometry, like Cimabue, Romanesque cathedrals, churches. You have the structure...
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Arthur B. Carles: A Neglected Modernist
He has been called " one of the most brilliant colorists in the history of American art" by Barbara Ann Boese Wolanin. So why do we not know more about Arthur B. Carles? I was immediately drawn to...
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Grace Hartigan: Both Abstract and Expressive
"I didn't choose painting. It chose me." The Red Bowl is an exuberant gesture surrounded by fluid daubs of paint. Are there flowers in the bowl? Hard to say for certain. It is as though there are...
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