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Masters of Surrealism: Picasso, Dalí and Miró

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 hours ago

*Peninsula Fine Arts Center (PFAC), Newport News, Virginia* *Nov. 21 to Dec. 20, 2020* Salvador Dalí (Spanish , 1904-1989) The Thumb, The Vision of the Angel of Cap Creus, 1979. Color lithograph © 2020 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala -Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society Roberto Matta ( Chilean , 191 1 - 200 2 ) Carné Amont 3/6 , 1979 Engraving © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris For its final exhibition, the Peninsula Fine Arts Center (PFAC) in Newport News, Virginia, will present *Masters of* *Surrealism: Picasso, Dalí and Miró*. On view from Nov. 21 to De...

Swann- Old Master Through Modern Prints: Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Louis Lozowick, Joan Miró, Diego Rivera & more

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 hours ago

The auction is led by *Louis Lozowick*’s scarce circa-1925 Art Deco lithograph *New York, *of which only three other impressions have been seen at auction in the past 30 years ($40,000-60,000). Edward Hopper is available with *Night Shadows*, etching, 1921 ($20,000-30,000): the work is the only commercial etching printed by Hopper and was created for *The New Republic*, New York, and published in a limited edition portfolio for their December 1924 issue. Additional works by American printmakers include color woodcuts by Gustave Baumann, classic views of New York City by Martin ...

Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 days ago

Milwaukee Art Museum Chrysler Museum of Art Childe Hassam, Plaza de la Merced, Ronda, 1910. Oil on panel. 25 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (64.6 x 52 cm) Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Opening on February 12, 2021, in Norfolk, Virginia, and on June 11, 2021, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, *Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920* highlights prominent American artists such as Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and John Singer Sargent, who traveled to Spain for training and to study the old masters at the Prado ...

Albrecht Dürer: The Age of Reformation and Renaissance

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 days ago

Nov 6, 2020–Feb 7, 2021 | Upper-Level Galleries Share on Facebook Share on Twitter #FristDurer [image: Home] The brilliant and versatile German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) lived in the prosperous city of Nuremberg and is renowned as one of the finest printmakers of all time. This exhibition of more than one hundred engravings, etchings, and woodcuts spans almost the entirety of Dürer’s prolific career, beginning with some of the earliest examples he made as a young master and ending with his treatise on human proportions, published by his wife, Agnes, shortly...

Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 days ago

* The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) * *March 14, 2021 through July 25, 2021* *The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) * *September 12, 2021 through January 9, 2022* Featuring More than 40 Paintings and Collages, *Cubism in Color: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris* Explores Gris’s Pivotal Role in Cubism and Innovative Approach to Still Life. Juan Gris, Newspaper and Fruit Dish, 1916, oil on canvas, Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Collection Société Anonyme. Photo © Yale University Art Gallery The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) and The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) today announced the co-o...

Book - Brutal Aesthetics

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago

Princeton University Press In *Brutal Aesthetics*, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that modernist art can teach us how to survive a civilization become barbaric, Foster examines the various ways that key figures from the early 1940s to the early 1960s sought to develop a “brutal aesthetics” adequate to the destruction around them. With a focus on the philosopher Georges Bataille, the painters J...

Toulouse Lautrec & the Belle Époque

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago

Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College Lakeland FL, USA February 13, 2021 – May 23, 2021 Toulouse-Lautrec is recognized around the world as an important Post-Impressionist painter, illustrator and lithographer. He is best known for his works depicting scenes from cabarets, theaters, dance halls, and brothels of late 19th century bohemian Paris. These were themes that the artist lived, beginning in 1885 when he moved to Montmartre and immersed himself in its nightlife. Toulouse-Lautrec wanted to show life as it is, not as it should be, but this objectivity was not without ...

Discovery of Missing Painting by Iconic American Modernist Jacob Lawrence

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago

Jacob Lawrence, (American, 1917–2000). There are combustibles in every State, which a spark might set fire to. —Washington, 26 December 1786, Panel 16, 1956, from Struggle: From the History of the American People, 1954–56. Egg tempera on hardboard. Private Collection. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen. Thought missing for decades, the panel will be reunited this week with the artist's *Struggle* series, now on view in an exhibition at The Met that closes November 1, 2020. The work wil...

America's Greatest Photographers

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago

Click on each name for complete post with photographs, or go to https://photoarthq.blogspot.com/ Paul Strand Jonathan Kantrowitz, Photographers - 2 months ago Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976) was one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium. It will explore the remarkable evolution of Strand’s work, from the breakthrough moment in the second decade of the twentieth century when he brought his art to the brink of abstraction to his broader vision of the place of photography in the modern world, which he would develop over the course of a career that spanned six...

African-American Art

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 weeks ago

Click on titles for full articles or go to: http://africanamericanartq.blogspot.com/ Reckoning with “The Incident”: John Wilson’s Studies for a Lynching Mural. Jonathan Kantrowitz, African-American Art - 2 weeks ago John Wilson, Compositional study for The Incident, 1952. Opaque and transparent watercolor, ink, and graphite, squared for transfer. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund. © Estate of John Wilson John Wilson, Negro Woman, study for The Incident, 1952. Oil on Masonite. Clark Atlanta University Art Collection, Atlanta Annuals. © Estate of John Wils...

German Expressionism from the Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 weeks ago

*Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.* *27 October 2020 - 14 March 2021* [image: Expresionismo alemán] Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.* Fränzi in front of Carved Chair*, 1910. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza When in 1961 Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza acquired *Young Couple* by Emil Nolde he initiated a change of direction in the Thyssen family’s collecting activities. While his father Henrich Thyssen had assembled a remarkable collection of Old Masters during the interwar period, between the 1960s and 1990s Hans Heinrich would be extremely active as a collector of the principal 2...

Sotheby’s To Offer A Rare Biblical Masterpiece By Rembrandt van Rijn, as well as Sandro Botticelli's 15th-century portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel,

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 weeks ago

Sotheby’s has announced that an extraordinary and rare biblical scene by Dutch Golden Age master Rembrandt van Rijn will be a highlight of itsannual New York Masters Week sale series in January 2021. Measuring just 6 ½ by 8 ⅜ inches (16 x 21cm), Abraham and the Angels is a profoundly beautiful, gem-like painting on panel from 1646 that stands among the finest works by Rembrandt ever to come to auction. The painting last appeared at auction in London in 1848, when it sold for £64, and returns to the block this January with an estimate of $20/30 million. The work was recently the p...

Frank Duveneck: American Master,

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 weeks ago

* The Cincinnati Art Museum * * Dec. 18, 2020–March 28, 2021* Frank Duveneck (1848–1919), United States, *He Lives by His Wits*, 1878, oil on canvas, Collection of Gates Thornton Richards and Margaret Kyte Richards Through his brilliant and inspiring work as a painter and printmaker and as a charismatic teacher, Duveneck’s impact on the international art world of his time was substantial and enduring. More than 90 examples across media from the holdings of the museum, the leading repository of the Kentucky native’s work, and 35 pieces on loan from collections across the United ...

Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 weeks ago

*Now through January 3, 2021 the Reading Public Museum in Reading, Penn*., presents *Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau* includes more than 70 original works by the artist many consider the creator of the Art Nouveau style. From 1895 to 1910 Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) was one of the most significant artists in all of Europe. His work became synonymous with the international Art Nouveau style, popularly called "*le style Mucha*" in Paris at the turn of the century. With a focus on the works created during the 1890s, this exhibition shows a creative man exploring possibilities wh...

ARTEMISIA

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 weeks ago

*National Gallery* *6 April – 26 July 2020 (postponed)* *New dates: *3 October 2020 – 24 January 2021 For the first time in the UK, a major monographic exhibition of the work of Artemisia Gentileschi, will open at the National Gallery in April 2020. At the centre of the exhibition will be the Gallery’s recently acquired [image: Artemisia Gentileschi - Self-Portrait 5365.jpg] *Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria*, which will be displayed alongside other closely related works by Artemisia for the first time since its discovery in 2017. Artemisia Gentileschi is consider...

The Piranesi Principle Marking the 300th Birthday of the Great Italian Master

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 weeks ago

*An exhibition of the Kunstbibliothek – Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in cooperation with the Kupferstichkabinett – Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.* 04.10.2020 till 07.02.2021 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) was one of the great polymaths of the 18th century. He carved out an international career as an archaeologist, artist, collector, designer, publisher and author. The principle behind his success was to grasp the multifaceted nature of reality and transform it into something new. He found inspiration everywhere: in the artifacts of b...

'Storm of Progress': 200 Years of German Art

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 weeks ago

From Friedrich to Richter, ‘Storm of Progress’ will feature masterworks from the Saint Louis Art Museum’s renowned collection The Saint Louis Art Museum will highlight its world-class collection of German art in an exhibition presenting more than 120 works of the last 200 years, from Romanticism in the 1800s to the eclectic globalism that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. “Storm of Progress: German Art from the Saint Louis Art Museum” opens Nov. 8 and will be presented free of charge. “Storm of Progress” explores transformative moments in the history of German art an...

Albrecht Dürer: The Age of Reformation and Renaissance

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 weeks ago

he Frist Art Museum presents *Albrecht Dürer: The Age of Reformation and Renaissance*, an exhibition featuring one hundred engravings, etchings, and woodcuts by the brilliant and versatile German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). Organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Upper-Level Galleries from November 6, 2020, through February 7, 2021. Dürer is celebrated as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance and one of the finest printmakers of all time. This exhibition spans nearly his entire career, from his early work...

Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Los Tres Grandes: Obras de Rivera, Siqueiros y Orozcois

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 weeks ago

The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio is offering a rare opportunity to see nearly all of the prints in its Permanent Collection by los tres grandes or “the three greats” of Mexican modernism–Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. *Los Tres Grandes: Obras de Rivera, Siqueiros y Orozco*is on view in the Frost Galleries through January 3, 2021. Mexico has the longest printmaking tradition in all the Americas—dating back to 1539. Spurred by the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the golden age of printmaking began in the 1920s and lasted through the 1940s. The great...

Reckoning with “The Incident”: John Wilson’s Studies for a Lynching Mural.

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 weeks ago

John Wilson, Compositional study for The Incident, 1952. Opaque and transparent watercolor, ink, and graphite, squared for transfer. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund. © Estate of John Wilson John Wilson, Negro Woman, study for The Incident, 1952. Oil on Masonite. Clark Atlanta University Art Collection, Atlanta Annuals. © Estate of John Wilson. Courtesy Clark Atlanta University Art Collection On September 25, the Yale University Art Gallery opened to visitors for the first time in nearly seven months with new covid-19 safety measures in place. “Our wo...

Book: Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago

*A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans* Walker Evans (1903–75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known for his work for the Farm Security Administration, addressing the Great Depression, but what he actually saw was the diversity of people and the damage of the long Civil War. In *Walker Evans, *renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers explores how Evans made his distinctive photographs. Delving into a lavish selection of Evans’s work, Alpers uncovers rich parallels between his creative...

American Art at Swann - Sept 17: Childe Hassam, Grandma Moses, Guy Wiggins & More

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

*Swann Galleries* will open the fall 2020 auction season with a sale of *American Art* on *September 17*. The sale encompasses the visions of Impressionism, Regionalism and early Modernism, with seaside portraits showcasing various coastal destinations featuring prominently throughout the sale. A top highlight of the auction is a work by *Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Mos**es*. Completed at 101 years of age, *Happy Days* is a 1961 oil-on-masonite painting depicting a typical scene of Moses’s, a rural family working happily on their farm. The work is set to come across the block ...

Natural Forces: Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

Winslow Homer, Indian Boy with Canoe, 1895. Denver Art Museum. (The Denver Art Museum (DAM) has debuted *Natural Forces: Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington* (on view to Sept. 7, 2020). The traveling exhibition, featuring 60 artworks, reveals connections between artistic themes and techniques used by these two acclaimed American artists. Born a generation apart, both artists succeeded in capturing the quintessential American spirit through works of art at the turn of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, an era of growing industrialization and notions of the closing of the America...

Texas Made Modern: The Art of Everett Spruce,

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) announces the first exhibition in nearly 30 years to highlight the pioneering and inventive career of Texas artist Everett Spruce (1908–2002). Featuring nearly 50 works from private and public collections from across the country, the exhibition traces five decades of Spruce’s career, revealing how he adapted his style and subjects to the era in which he worked. On view August 18 through November 1, 2020, with three Carter member-only preview days August 14–16, *Texas Made Modern *reclaims the legacy of this Texas artist. *Texas Ma...

Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces of the Ordrupgaard Collection.

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

Video: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/video-inside-the-exhibition-gauguin-and-the-impressionists Article with images: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/manet-morisot-10-impressionist-paintings-coming-to-the-uk Details: https://artdaily.cc/news/127214/Royal-Academy-of-Arts-opens--Gauguin-and-the-Impressionists--Masterpieces-from-the-Ordrupgaard-Collection-#.XzFOrtXwZoE

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 months ago

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 We present the video on Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 at the Whitney Museum in New York. The exhibition questions the historiography that demonstrates the impact that the leading Mexican muralists, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, had on the artistic practices on American art.

The Monet Show Must Go On — With an Array of Online Features From MFA Boston

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 months ago

Claude Monet, “Grainstack (Sunset),” 1891. Oil on canvas. Juliana Cheney Edwards.*Museum of Fine Arts, Boston* Nineteenth-century Bostonians were on the cutting edge of collecting when the innovative works of French Impressionists burst on the scene. One of the largest holdings of Claude Monet’s (1840–1926) work outside France, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) acquired dozens of his Impressionist masterpieces that came to reside in the city when Monet's landscapes caught the eye of local collectors during the artist's lifetime. To celebrate the museum’s 150th anniversary, the M...

Sotheby’s Evening Sale on 28 July,

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 months ago

UNSEEN WORKS OF THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE Over 40 Paintings, Sculpture & Works on Paper Led by a Rare Cubist Work by Léger & an Intimate Picasso Portrait of his Secret Lover Marie-Thérèse Pablo Picasso | Fernand Léger | Alberto Giacometti | Wassily Kandinsky | Lyonel Feininger | August Macke | Alexej von Jawlensky | Jacques Lipchitz | Marc Chagall | Henry Moore | Henri Laurens | Jean Arp | Albert Gleizes Helena Newman, Worldwide Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Department, said: “Put together with passion and enjoyed over many years, this private collection encapsulates...

Sotheby’s AMERICAN ART 26 June

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 months ago

FEATURING: Thomas Hart Benton’s *Noon* Featured in the Artist’s First Major Retrospective in New York in 1939 Estimate $700,000/1 Million *Leading a Selection of Works on Offer from The Collection of Marylou Whitney* Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Reduction of the Large-Scale Abraham Lincoln Monument Designed to Adorn Chicago’s Lincoln Park Estimate $600/900,000 American Impressionist Works from a Pennsylvania Collection: Mary Cassatt’s Pastel on Paper from 1909 Portraying Motherhood Estimate $400/600,000 ** Childe Hassam’s *Promenade – Winter, New York* from 1895, Depicting an Elegant Woman...

Turner, paintings and watercolours. TATE’s Collections

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 months ago

*Musée Jacquemart-André* *13 March - 20 July 2020* In 2020, the Musée Jacquemart-André will present a retrospective of the oeuvre of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851). Undoubtedly the greatest representative of the golden age of English watercolours, he experimented with the effects of light and transparency on English landscapes and the Venetian lagoons. Celebrated by his contemporaries, he still has many admirers. Thanks to exceptional loans from the Tate Britain in London, which houses the largest collection of Turner’s works in the world, the Musée Jacquemart-André will...

THE MASTER OF MONDSEE

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 months ago

*Upper Belvedere * *7 February to 13 September, 2020 * The Master of Mondsee, The Flight into Egypt, c. 1475–81, on the St. Wolfgang altarpiece Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna Master of Mondsee, The Circumcision of Christ, c. 1495–99. From the Mondsee altarpiece (Reproduction, original in the next room). Photo: Johannes Stoll © Belvedere, Vienna. As part of its IN-SIGHT series, the Belvedere is dedicating a first monographic exhibition to one of the most significant late-medieval painters in Austria: the Master of Mondsee. It centers on the work that gave this ano...

Into the Night Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 months ago

*Lower Belvedere and Orangery* 14 February 2020 - 1 June 2020 he exhibition *Into the Night explores art and culture from the 1880s to the 1960s through the lens of these alternative scenes.* The Exhibition [image: Zeichnung einer Sängerin mit großer roter Boa] Erna Schmidt-Caroll, Chansonette, c. 1928, Private collection © Estate Erna Schmidt-Caroll In Vienna, the Cabaret Fledermaus, founded and designed in 1907 by key members of the Wiener Werkstätte, marked the transition from Secessionism to Expressionism. In Paris in the 1880s, the Chat Noir and its shadow theater anticipated cin...

Christie's auction - Lichtenstein, Picasso

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 months ago

On July 10, ONE: A Global Sale of the 20th Century will be highlighted by Roy Lichtenstein’s monumentally scaled, *Nude with Joyous Painting (estimate in the region of $30 million)*. Painted in 1994 and belonging to an important private American collection, *Nude with Joyous Painting* is a *tour-de-force* of Lichtenstein’s consummate series of nudes that are acclaimed as the summation of his late career. The *Nudes* mark Lichtenstein’s return to the comic-book heroines that propelled him to fame in the early 1960s and together, they rank among his most significant bodies of work...

STÄDEL’S LEGACY: MASTER DRAWINGS FROM THE FOUNDER’S COLLECTION

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 months ago

*Städel Museum* *13 May to 16 August 2020* With the bequest of his private art collection, the businessman and banker Johann Friedrich Städel (1728–1816) founded a public art museum of international stature, accessible to all – the Städel Museum. The collector left behind an art treasure encompassing not only paintings and prints but also more than 4,600 drawings. For a long time, it was not possible to determine which of the drawings in the museum’s present-day holdings were originally in his collection. At the time of the bequest, no complete inventory was compiled. Furthermore, ...

Book: What Great Paintings Say. 100 Masterpieces in Detail (Bibliotheca Universalis)

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 6 months ago

This important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, authors Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen allow even the most familiar of pictures to come alive anew through their intricacies and intrigues. Is the bride pregnant? Why does the man wear a beret? How does the shadow of war hang over a scene of dancing? Along the way, we travel fr...

Young Rembrandt

Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 6 months ago

*Ashmolean * *Images below* Young Rembrandt is the first major exhibition in the UK to examine the early years of one of the greatest artists of all time. Looking at Rembrandt’s first decade at work, from 1624–34, the show charts a career on a truly meteoric path. How was it that in his earliest known work, *The Spectacles Seller (1624- 25)*, we find a crude, garishly coloured painting by an artist struggling with his medium; but a mere 6 years later he had completed an acknowledged masterpiece - *Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem (1630)*? The exhibition is the larg...

Cranach: Artist & Innovator