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Permanent Collections: October 2011
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Friday, October 14, 2011. One Thanksgiving a number of years ago, I visited my brother for a few days while he was living in Rochester, NY. On the day of my departure, with a few hours until my train left, he, our parents, and I went to the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester. The MAG's roster of all-stars from the history of western painting continues with Tintoretto, Gainsborough, Cezanne, Corot, Courbet, Degas, Vuillard, Bonnard, Matisse, Monet, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawren...
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Permanent Collections: August 2011
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Monday, August 29, 2011. Cézanne at the Hammer Museum. During a recent vacation in Los Angeles, I paid a visit to the Hammer Museum at UCLA. The Hammer houses the personal collection of the oil magnate Armand Hammer, which includes paintings by many of the heavy hitters of Western art. The museum also puts on contemporary exhibits throughout the year. Its current Paul Thek retrospective. Provides an intriguing survey of this 2oth-century artist's work. On the museum's website, I finally returned. The rel...
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Permanent Collections: A Tale of Two van Dycks
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013. A Tale of Two van Dycks. During a recent trip to Los Angeles, I made a point of visiting the Huntington Library. In nearby San Marino. During my previous visits there, the Huntington mansion had been closed for renovation, and the collection rehung in other buildings on the property. The mansion has been reopened for a while now, so I was eager to see the collection re-installed in Henry and Arabella Huntington's home. And, sure enough there I saw Isabella, Lady De La Warr.
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Permanent Collections: July 2011
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011. As I've mentioned before, this blog is an outgrowth of my hobby of wandering around the Web looking at the collections of art museums. One of my favorite areas to visit at a museum's site is the recent acquisitions page. Tonight I discovered Henri Matisse's Les Pensées de Pascal. A recent gift to the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The painting was donated by Ruth and Bruce Dayton. Saturday, July 2, 2011. Getty Finally Gets the Turner. Update to the post below.
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Permanent Collections: Cézanne at the Hammer Museum
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Monday, August 29, 2011. Cézanne at the Hammer Museum. During a recent vacation in Los Angeles, I paid a visit to the Hammer Museum at UCLA. The Hammer houses the personal collection of the oil magnate Armand Hammer, which includes paintings by many of the heavy hitters of Western art. The museum also puts on contemporary exhibits throughout the year. Its current Paul Thek retrospective. Provides an intriguing survey of this 2oth-century artist's work. On the museum's website, I finally returned. The rel...
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Permanent Collections: June 2010
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Saturday, June 26, 2010. Art School à la Chardin. We] crouched over our portfolios a long time.". Here we have art school circa 1738, brought to us by Jean Siméon Chardin. And the Kimbell Museum of Art in Fort Worth, Texas. That is considered a masterpiece of modern architecture. One of my favorite works at the Kimbell i s. The painting above , Young Student Drawing. What sets Young Student Drawing. Would it show confidence? Or would it merely show concentration and not betray the difficulty of his task?
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Permanent Collections: The Getty Gets a Turner...Maybe
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The Getty Gets a Turner.Maybe. A few weeks ago, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles bought Joseph Turner's Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino. At a Sotheby's auction in London. With only a half dozen or so Turner paintings of this size and quality remaining in private hands. The Getty a rare opportunity to add significantly to its relatively small holdings of works by the British master. Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino,. Said by Sotheby's to be in excellent condition. Is completed in t...
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Permanent Collections: Getty Finally Gets the Turner
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Saturday, July 2, 2011. Getty Finally Gets the Turner. Update to the post below. Earlier this year, the U.K government granted the Getty Museum an export license from for Turner's Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino. The painting is now on view at the museum. Joseph Mallord William Turner. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Zazzle Highlights Bridgeman Art Modigliani. There was an error in this gadget. Getty Finally Gets the Turner. I am a professional artist and art teacher. View my complete profile.
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Permanent Collections: Surface Praise for Vuillard
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Friday, July 2, 2010. Surface Praise for Vuillard. Many years ago I saw an exhibition called "Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard" at the Brooklyn Museum. This show brought together about 75 paintings of the artist's domestic life in turn-of-the-last-century France. I hadn't previously seen much of Vuillard's work- just an occasional glance at the handful of his paintings at the Museum of Modern Art or the Metropolitan Museum. So the Brooklyn exhibition offered a welcome introduction. I never did make...
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Permanent Collections: July 2010
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The Getty Gets a Turner.Maybe. A few weeks ago, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles bought Joseph Turner's Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino. At a Sotheby's auction in London. With only a half dozen or so Turner paintings of this size and quality remaining in private hands. The Getty a rare opportunity to add significantly to its relatively small holdings of works by the British master. Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino,. Said by Sotheby's to be in excellent condition. Is completed in t...
