Dec 12, 2019 | 18th-19th C.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, La Ghirlandata, “The Garlanded figure.” 1873, Oil on canvas, 124 x 85 cm Color is one of the principle driving forces of my own practice; it is what ultimately makes me excited to sit down and paint and it tends to be the primary element that...
Jul 14, 2019 | 18th-19th C.
Sévres Manufactory, design attributed to Jean Jacques Lagrenén. Breast Bowl, Service for the Rambouillet Dairy, 1787-88, Soft paste porcelain bowl and hard paste porcelain support, 12.5cm x 12.2cm x 13.3cm The first time I saw the Sevres Breast Bowl was while paging...
Dec 29, 2018 | 18th-19th C., Modern
Édouard Manet, The Ragpicker, 1865-1870, Oil on Canvas, 76 3/4″X 51 1/2 inches, Collection of Norton Simon Museum While researching Edouard Manet’s Ragpicker painting, I found other images of that 19th century genre which depicts the urban destitute collecting...
Nov 28, 2018 | 18th-19th C., Modern
František Kupka, Planes by Colors: Large Nude, Oil on canvas, 1909-10, 59 ⅛” x 71 ⅛” Planes by Colors: Large Nude is František Kupka’s only surviving large scale figurative painting. Within a year of exhibiting it, he would never paint like this again, instead...
Oct 6, 2018 | 18th-19th C., Baroque, Renaissance
“Dear Weather” was written on Sunday, December 9, 2012, while Buzz Spector performed as a “writer” in Ann Hamilton’s installation, the event of a thread, at the Park Avenue Armory. Spector hand wrote the text over a four hour period, interrupted by that day’s closing...
Jun 26, 2018 | 18th-19th C.
Maria Sibylla Merian, Pineapple with with insects, Hand colored engraving, 1719 In the late 1980s, my curator-friend Carolyn returned from DC bearing a small gift from the National Museum of Women in the Arts: a two-by-three-inch fridge magnet with an incredibly...
