AUGUSTA SAVAGE: RENAISSANCE WOMAN
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 20 hours ago
Great article: https://artdaily.cc/news/134379/The-Black-woman-artist-who-crafted-a-life-she-was-told-she-couldn-t-have#.YGTBItXwZoE Also see https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/augusta-savage-renaissance-woman Organized by guest curator Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D., the Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman exhibition features nearly 80 works of art, including sculptures, paintings, and works on paper, and is the first to reassess Harlem Renaissance artist Augusta Savage’s contributions to art and cultural history in light of 21st-century attention to the concept of the artist-...
African-American Art
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 days ago
Major Gift Celebrating Black American Artists of the 20th Century Jonathan Kantrowitz, African-American Art - 2 weeks ago Richard Mayhew, Overture, 2001; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; © Richard Mayhew; photo: Katherine Du Tiel, courtesy SFMOMAHughie Lee-Smith, Two Boys, 1968; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; © Estate of Hughie Lee-Smith/ARS (Artist Rights Society), New York; photo: Ian ReevesLoïs Mailou Jones, Peasants at Kenscoff, 1955; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Gi...
Philadelphia Museum of Art to unveil new Galleries dedicated to American art from 1650 to1850
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 days ago
"Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (Mamoud Yarrow)," 1819, by Charles Willson Peale Oil on canvas, 24 × 20 inches. Image courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2021. A Spotlight on Immigration, Colonialism, Trade, and Underrepresented Narratives On May 7, 2021, when the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveils its new Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Galleries dedicated to American art from 1650 to1850, visitors will enter a succession of generously proportioned spaces to experience the museum’s spectacular collection of early American art in an entirely new light. In galleries that will be accessed f...
Photograhy Art History
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 days ago
* Check out my Photograhy Art History blog:* Phillips to Offer Iconic Works by Masters of Photography, Including William Eggleston, Richard Avedon, André Kertész, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus Jonathan Kantrowitz, Photographers - 6 days ago On 8 April, Phillips’ Photographs auction will bring together over 250 lots by some of the most influential photographers of the past century. The sale, which will be livestreamed from the New York saleroom, will offer collectors the chance to acquire rare-to-market photographs from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Richard Avedon Dovima with ...
Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge, effet de brouillard to lead Christie's Newly Launched 20th Century Evening Sale in May
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 days ago
A Modern Masterpiece This May, Christie’s will present Claude Monet’s *Waterloo Bridge, effet de brouillard, 1899-1903,* Estimate on Request (in the region of $35 million) as a highlight of Christie’s newly introduced 20th Century Evening Sale. This rare and important painting is a fine example of Monet’s celebrated Waterloo Bridge series, an exquisite example of his capacity to capture the ephemeral, intangible effects of light on the River Thames. With these pivotal works, Monet effectively paved the way for the trajectory of 20thCentury Art as we now know it. *“I adore Londo...
The Painters of Pompeii: Roman Frescoes from the National Archaeological Museum, Naples
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago
*Oklahoma City Museum of Art* *June 26 to Oct. 17, 2021* × “The Painters of Pompeii: Roman Frescoes from the National Archaeological Museum, Naples" will travel exclusively to Oklahoma City Museum of Art, from June 26 to Oct. 17, 2021. Archivio Fotografico del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli The exhibition “The Painters of Pompeii: Roman Frescoes from the National Archaeological Museum, Naples" will travel exclusively to Oklahoma City Museum of Art from Italy and be on view from June 26 to Oct. 17, 2021. “The Painters of Pompeii” highlights a seldom seen medium – the Rom...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza 20 April to 8 August 2021 Curator: Marta Ruiz del Árbol [image: OKeeffe_lirio] Georgia O'Keeffe. *White Iris No. 7*, 1957. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the first retrospective in Spain of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), one of the most important representatives of 20th-century American art. Featuring a selection of 90 works, the exhibition offers a complete survey of O’Keeffe’s career; a unique opportunity to discover and admire the work of this fascinating artist who is little r...
The Woman Who Broke Boundaries: Photographer Lee Miller
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago
*The Dalí Museum * *July 3, 2021-Jan. 2, 2022* *Special exhibit celebrates the trailblazing woman whose camerawork captured celebrities, surrealists and the zeitgeist of the last century* In conjunction with Women’s History Month, The Dalí Museum has announced new dates for an exhibition featuring the work of a groundbreaking female photographer. Lee Miller (1907-1977) was the trusted confidante of many influential artists and an eyewitness to some of the most extraordinary moments of the 20th century. Sweeping in scope and intimate in focus, *The Woman Who Broke Boundarie...
New Exhibition of Monet Masterpieces Alongside Works by Millet and Rodin
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago
[image: Impressionist painting of Seine River by Claude Monet] Credit Claude Monet, *Morning on the Seine near Giverny *(detail), 1897. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mrs. W. Scott Fitz. Claude Monet (1840–1926) saw the world differently. He found extraordinary beauty in settings both mundane and majestic, and he shared that enthusiasm—that commitment to the everyday, the here and now—in paintings that changed the course of art. Perhaps no other artist has captured Boston’s imagination as enduringly as Monet. Opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), on April 17, *Monet and Bost...
Paul Cézanne: Influence
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago
Featuring 21 portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, the exhibition brings together works by painters from the 18th through the 20th centuries. Masterworks on view include MFA icons such as Paul Cézanne, *Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair* (detail), about 1877. Oil on canvas. Bequest of Robert Treat Paine, 2nd. *Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair* (about 1877) in addition to seven rarely seen loans of works by Cézanne from private collections. From Chardin and Corot to Picasso, Sheeler, Braque, and Matisse, “Paul Cézanne: Influence” speaks to the generative power of the conversatio...
Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 15 April: Dubuffet, Rothko, Frank Stella
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 week ago
Jean Dubuffet’s La féconde journée, executed in 1976, as a star lot of London’s 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 15 April. La féconde journée hails from Dubuffet’s seminal Théâtres de mémoire series and has featured in the major centenary retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2001. La féconde journée will be virtually on view from 7 to 11 April before a public viewing at Phillips Berkeley Square from 12 to 15 April. Jean Dubuffet La féconde journée, 16 May 1976 acrylic on paper collaged on canvas 204.5 x 210.5 cm (80 1/2 x 82 7/8 in.) Estimate: £1...
Ralston Crawford: Air + Space + War
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 weeks ago
*Brandywine River Museum of Art * *June 20 through September 19, 2021* *Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio, * *October 2021* Ralston Crawford (1906-1978), Bomber, 1944, oil on canvas, 28 x 40 in. Vilcek Collection, VF2016.03.02Ralston Crawford (1906-1978), Bikini, Tour of Inspection, 1946, oil on canvas, 24 x 34 in. Vilcek Collection, VF2015.01.01 Ralston Crawford (1906-1978), Plane Propeller on Tarmac, 1945, photograph, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Vilcek Collection Ralston Crawford (1906-1978), Untitled (Blue and White), 1938, oil on canvas, 20 1/8 x 24 1/8 in. Collection of John Crawf...
Calder-Picasso
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 2 weeks ago
*de Young museum* *through May 23, 2021* Alexander Calder, Triple Gong, ca. 1948. Brass, sheet metal, wire, and paint, 39 x 75 x 2 3/4 in. Image provided courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Pablo Picasso, Nu couché. Paris musée national Picasso- Paris. MP142. Image provided courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Alexander Calder, Red, Black, Blue. Image provided courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Pablo Picasso, Woman Sitting in a Red Armchair (MP139), 1932. Oil on canvas. Musée national Picasso Paris. Image provided courtesy of the Fine ...
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art Receives the Extraordinary American Art Collection
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 weeks ago
Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Susan Cragg Stebbins have given their outstanding collection of American art to The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida. The couple have made their gift in honor of Mrs. Stebbins’s parents, Evelyn and Henry Cragg, longtime residents of Winter Park. Mr. Cragg was a member of the Charles Homer Morse Foundation board of trustees from its founding in 1976 until his death in 1988. All images are courtesy of The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park,Florida. 1.Long Island Sound View,c. 1827–35....
Book - portrait of Helen Frankenthaler
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 weeks ago
Hardcover | $28.00 Published by Penguin Press Mar 23, 2021 | 288 Pages | 6 x 9| ISBN 9780525560180 *A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York* *"The magic of Alexander Nemerov's portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in Fierce Poise is that it reads like one of Helen's paintings. His poetic descriptions of her work and his rich insights into the years when Helen made her first artistic breakthroughs are both light and lush, seemingly easy and yet profound. His book is an ode t...
The Frick Collection Newly Installed At The Breuer Building
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 3 weeks ago
Room 24: Four grand panels of Fragonard’s series The Progress of Love are shown together at Frick Madison in a gallery illuminated by one of Marcel Breuer’s trapezoidal windows. This view shows two of the 1771 –72 paintings, with two later overdoors visible in the next gallery; photo: Joe CosciaRoom 22: The Frick Collection houses more works by American-born James McNeill Whistler than by any other artist. This view shows three of four full-length portraits on display in a Frick Madison gallery; photo: Joe Coscia *The Frick Reframed: The Frick Collection Presents Highlights Reco...
Exceptional 20th Century Art Collection Donated to the Seattle Art Museum
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 weeks ago
Franz Kline’s “Painting No. 11,” and Clyfford Still's "PH-338 (1949-No. 2)" in the Lang Residence. Spike Mafford/Zocalo Studios An exceptional collection of 20th century art assembled over a decade by late collectors Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang will find permanent homes and be accessible to the public at the Seattle Art Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery. The Friday Foundation, established to realize the Langs’ passion and philanthropy, has announced gifts of 19 masterworks and $10.5 million in dedicated funds to the Seattle Art Museum. In addition, the Friday F...
Major gift to Yale art Gallery{ six artworks by Franz Kline (1910–1962) and Mark Rothko (1903–1970). I
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 4 weeks ago
The Yale University Art Gallery has received an extraordinary gift from the Friday Foundation honoring the legacy of late Seattle philanthropists Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang. The Lang collection is one of the most important private collections of 20th-century art in the country, with masterworks by renowned postwar American and European artists and incredible examples of Abstract Expressionism. The gift from the Friday Foundation includes six artworks by Franz Kline (1910–1962) and Mark Rothko (1903–1970). It augments the Gallery’s collection of midcentury European and Am...
Black Women Artists from the Tubman Museum Collection
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 weeks ago
Subscribe Ana Bel Lee (1926 – 2000) Wedding.*Tubman Museum* (ARTFIX*daily*.com) On March 5, 2021, the Tubman Museum will open an exhibition titled *A Mighty Chorus: Black Women* *Artists from the Tubman Museum Collection*. The exhibit will feature works by local African American women artists from the Tubman museum collection with a special focus on the works of Nellie Mae Rowe and Anna Belle Lee Washington, also known as Ana Bel Lee. After the death of her second husband in 1948, Nellie Mae Rowe (1900 – 1982) spent the rest of her life creating an extensive and important col...
An outstanding group of modern drawings by European and American masters has been presented to The Courtauld
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 5 weeks ago
An outstanding group of modern drawings by European and American masters assembled by the late collector Howard Karshan has been presented to The Courtauld by his wife, the artist Linda Karshan. It is one of the most significant gifts of art to The Courtauld in a generation. Cézanne, Kandinsky, Klee & Richter among major gift to the Courtauld Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled, 1916. Brush and India ink on paper, 15.8 x 23.4 cm. The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) Gift by Linda Karshan in memory of her husband, Howard Karshan © Georg Baselitz. Photo © The Courtauld. Living be...
Alice Neel: People Come First
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 month ago
*The Metropolitan Museum of ArMarch 22 through August 1, 2021Guggenheim Bilbao September 17, 2021–January 23, 2022Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco March 12, 2022–July 10, 2022* Alice Neel (America, 1900-1984). *Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian*, 1978. Oil on canvas. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Purchase, by exchange, through an anonymous gift. © The Estate of Alice Neel "For me, people come first. I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being."—Alice Neel, 1950 Alice Neel: People Come First is the first museum retrospective in New York ...
Walker Evans American Photographs
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 month ago
- January– to April 2021 Art Museum of West Virginia University *Morgantown, WV* - September– to December 2021 Portland Museum of Art *Portland, ME* - January– to March 2022 Windgate Museum of Art at Hendrix College *Conway, AR* - May– to August 2022 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art *Laurel, MS* - September– to November 2022 Mattatuck Museum *Waterbury, CT* This installation celebrates the 75th anniversary of the first one-person photography exhibition at MoMA, and the accompanying landmark publication...
Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 month ago
- - February– to May 2021 Reynolda House Museum of American Art *Winston-Salem, NC* - June– to October 2021 Olana State Historic Site *Hudson, NY* - June– to October 2021 Thomas Cole National Historic Site *Catskill, NY* - November 2021– to March 2022 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art *Bentonville, AR* Exhibition Images - [image: Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) Amethyst Woodstar] Photography by Dwight Primiano Martin Johnson Heade, *Amethyst Woodstar*, ca. 1863 – 1864, Oil on canvas...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art announces promised gifts by Georgia O’Keeffe and Romare Bearden
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 month ago
Reynolda’s founding director, Barbara Babcock Millhouse, has generously promised a gift of three works of art to Reynolda House Museum of American Art— Georgia O’Keeffe’s *Cedar Tree with Lavender Hills *and Romare Bearden’s *Alto Composite *and *Moonlight Express*. Reynolda House has committed to improving the way its collection reflects the community by diversifying its offerings through works created by women and artists of color. The museum is soliciting gifts and creating a designated fund for new acquisitions, recognizing that the collection could become a more accurate mir...
The medieval Guelph Treasure at the U.S. Supreme Court
Jonathan Kantrowitz, Art History News - 1 month ago
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the claims of Jewish heirs who sought to sue Germany for taking property from its own citizens. The court cited the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) for the basis of its unanimous ruling. While the FSIA allows lawsuits to be brought for property taken in violation of international law, it does not cover expropriations of property belonging to a country’s own nationals. The court did not consider an alternative argument that suggested the owners were no longer German nationals in 1935. Many Jewish people lost their rights as citiz...
