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Senior Curator of European and American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, Oliver Meslay told a crowd of docents assembled at the museum Monday that it wasn't the easiest exhibit to put together, nor the most obvious. Rather the need for Hotel Texas: An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy … Continue reading Oil and Canvas, Art for Jack and Jackie
It may not have been the first choice for a major work by Thomas Eakins to adorn the walls of the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. That of course was The Gross Clinic which shows Dr.Samuel D. Gross, a seventy-year-old professor dressed in a black frock coat, as he lectures a group of Jefferson … Continue reading One Measure of a Great Portrait, Eakins at Crystal Bridges
Few art institutions can launch a new grand installation of American Art in both thematic and chronological order, without feeling contrived. The Met is an exception. The new American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art takes 30,000 square feet of the second floor, spreading over 26 galleries. Together with multi-leveled periods rooms, decorative arts … Continue reading A Visit to the New American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A major exhibition of artwork by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner will premiere at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), on view from January 27 through April 15, 2012. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit will contain over 100 works, including 12 paintings that have never been shown in a Tanner retrospective and the … Continue reading PAFA to Mount Definitive Exhibition on Henry Ossawa Tanner
I've been taking a class at TCU on the History of Fort Worth Artists and Sculptors taught by Scott Barker and have been learning more about a woman the City of Fort Worth owes much of its artistic legacy to. Jennie Scott Scheuber isn't remembered for her art if she produced any, but for her … Continue reading Bringing Art to the Hinterland
“I never knew but one artist,” wrote the poet Walt Whitman. “and that's Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they think ought to be, rather than what is.” I am confronted with one of Eakins most notable paintings, Swimming, in the Amon Carter Museum. I've heard it said more than once … Continue reading To be in the Comfort of Freedom
There are many other attractions in San Diego to lure visitors other than art. That's particularly true this time of year. One of those attractions is palm tree-filled Balboa Park, which happens to be home to a number of museums, including two art museums. The first stop was the San Diego Museum of Art. This … Continue reading The Museums of San Diego’s Balboa Park, Part 1
The Philadelphia Museum of Art today announced that it has acquired, through several gifts and a purchase agreement with the Aperture Foundation, the core collection of photographs by Paul Strand, one of the pre-eminent photographers of the 20th century. Through the generosity of philanthropists Lynne and Harold Honickman, Marjorie and Jeffrey Honickman, and H.F. “Gerry” … Continue reading The Philadelphia Museum of Art Announces Acquisition of 3,000 Works by Paul Strand
Here is a four-question art quiz. We'll randomly choose among those with the correct answers July 31, 2010 and send a free Urban Art and Antiques T-Shirt to a winner. It's not the world's easiest quiz, but we're confident someone will present four correct answers. Click images to expand . 1) This medium of image … Continue reading A Short Art Quiz
The Gross Clinic of 1875 is one of the most significant works created by the great Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and a landmark in the history of 19th-century American art. A new exhibition—An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing ‘The Gross Clinic’ Anew (July 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011), to be presented in the Pennsylvania … Continue reading Newly Restored, Eakins’s ‘The Gross Clinic’ to be Centerpiece of Exhibition Shedding New Light on Artist’s Original Vision
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