His nickname translates to either “Squinty” or “Cross-Eyed” but in spite of his in-turned eye – or perhaps because of it – Guercino is regarded as one of the greatest Italian draftsmen of the 17th century. […]
Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman
Category: Artists
Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign
Nicolas Abdallah Moufarrege (1947-1985), who died of AIDS at 36, produced idiosyncratic embroidered paintings, appropriating iconography from Classical sculpture, Arabic calligraphy, comic book heroes, Pop Art, Baroque paintings and more. […]
John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal
This is the first major exhibition since 1925 to explore Sargent’s expressive drawings in charcoal, illuminating the magnitude of his abilities as a portrait draftsman. The drawings in the John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum represent an important yet often overlooked part of Sargent’s practice. John Singer Sargent […]
Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet
In graphically spare prints and startlingly realistic portraits, darkly suggestive interiors, luscious still lifes and brooding landscape paintings, Félix Edouard Vallotton was a highly original Early Modernist artist. On view in an exhibition of some 80 works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC, through Jan 26, 2020. […]
St. Paul the Hermit Has Arrived at Notre Dame University
A quick study: Who was Jusepe de Ribera? Who was St. Paul the First Hermit? And why did the artist paint the saint? The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, has recently received an exciting long-term loan — from the Cummins Family Collection — of the painting St. Paul […]
Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years
Best known today for large-scale paintings that were provocative in the early 1860s, Manet shifted his focus and produced a different, though no less radical, body of work In the late 1870s and early 1880s. A major exhibitin at the Getty looks at these later years. […]
Delacroix Lost and Found
The whereabouts of a masterwork by 19th-century French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) were unknown between the time of its recorded sale in 1850 until 2018, when it was discovered in a Paris apartment. Now it’s coming to live in the US. […]
T. C. Cannon: One Who Stands in the Sun
T.C. Cannon combined contemporary Western art influences with native traditions, making astute social and political statements with wry humor. He did not want his art to be pigeon-holed as native. He was an artist, period. […]
Monet: The Late Years
The Kimbell Museum’s Monet: Late Years exhibition heralds his lifelong vitality as a painter and shows that in his later years — with the suppression of detail in favor of increasing expressiveness – he was a pioneer of abstraction. […]
Meaning in Leonardo’s Last Supper
The Renaissance was a time when Christian piety and rational discovery challenged and justified each other — and Leonardo da Vinci was a man of his time. Everything he did, he did with purpose. […]