Apr 8, 2017 | Modern
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893, Oil, pastel, cardboard, tempera, 29 x 32 inches In my work, I always look to “NAIL IT!,” meaning that I aim for my artwork to have the highest possible impact while addressing the severest aspects of humanity – that’s why I’ve...
Mar 23, 2017 | Modern
Pierre Roy, METRIC SYSTEM, 1933, oil on canvas, 57 5/8 x 39 inches In the seventies while living in Philadelphia I spent a lot of time at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where I first saw Pierre Roy’s Metric System. Roy is a painter whose work came to the PMA as...
Mar 1, 2017 | Modern
Kazimir Malevich, Knife Grinder, 1912-13, Oil on canvas, 31×31 inches Kasimir Malevich is best known in America for his Suprematist painting, White on White (1918), in the collection of MOMA. Less well known are his Futurist works, made a few years earlier, works...
Jan 31, 2017 | Modern
Henri Matisse, View of Notre Dame, 1914, Oil on canvas, 58 x 37 1/8 inches In Matisse’s View of Notre Dame, a diagonal line reaches out of the pentimenti, which establish the artist’s side of a French window, and spans the Seine. Just as the line is about to touch the...
Jan 13, 2017 | Modern
Hilma af Klint, Violet Blossoms with Guidelines, 1919, Watercolor on paper The first time I experienced the work of Hilma af Klint was in the 1986 exhibition, The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890 – 1985 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her...
Oct 25, 2016 | Modern
Stuart Davis, Rue Lipp, 1928, Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 inches A little while ago I went to the Stuart Davis retrospective at the Whitney. I was expecting to like it, and I did. I’ve seen my fair share of Davis’ paintings over the years, and I have particularly fond...
