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Getting inspired at the Michener Art Museum

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Indoors

  • Harry Leith-Ross || Of Days Long Past, c. 1959. Oil on canvas
  • Harry Leith-Ross || Of Days Long Past, c. 1959. Oil on canvas [detail]
  • Daniel Garber || Up the Cuttalossa, 1915. Oil on canvas
  • Alice Kent Stoddard || Girl with Cat, 1935. Oil on canvas
  • Helen Mirkil || Lovel Letter/Gene Rochberg (after “Woman with a Pink” by Rembrandt, 1662), 2009. Oil on canvas
  • Henriette Wyeth || The Picnic, c. 1928. Oil on canvas
  • Henriette Wyeth || The Picnic, c. 1928. Oil on canvas [detail]
  • Henriette Wyeth || The Picnic, c. 1928. Oil on canvas [detail]
  • Rob Evans 1959 || Cicada, 1998-2000. Acrylic and oil on board
  • Rob Evans 1959 || Cicada, 1998-2000. Acrylic and oil on board [detail]
  • Rob Evans 1959 || Cicada, 1998-2000. Acrylic and oil on board [detail]
  • Rob Evans 1959 || Cicada, 1998-2000. Acrylic and oil on board [detail]
  • Clarence Holbrook Carter || Over and Above, No.14, 1964. Oil on canvas
  • Mavis Smith || Hedge Fund, 2007
  • Louis Bosa || Taking Down the El at 57th Street, 1940. Oil on canvas
  • Louis Bosa || Taking Down the El at 57th Street, 1940. Oil on canvas [detail]
  • Phillip Lloyd Powell || Door and Surround, c. 1967. Stacked cared softwoods, polychromed

Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

February 16th, 2020

Spirit World and Folk Tales || Princeton University Art Museum

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It was in February but, somehow, felt like Halloween!

  • Saint Catherine of Alexandria – Flemish, early 16th century [detail]
  • Bernard Perlin || The Garden, 1949
  • Sir Edward Burne-Jones || Saint Cecilia, about 1900. Stained and painted glass
  • Tall Back Chair, about 1898-99. Oak. Designed by Charles Rohlfs [detail]
  • Leonora Carrington || Twins, 1997
  • Leonora Carrington || Red Horses on the Sidhe, 1996

    Carrington frequently drew inspiration from Celtic folklore, including stories of the Sidhe (people of the hills). A race of fairy folk, the Sidhe were known to travel the roads, acting as interlocutors between the human and spiritual worlds. In the legend depicted here, the three Sidhe messengers deliver the Irish king Conaire a prophecy of death and destruction: ”Great are the signs: destruction of life: sating of ravens: feeding of crows, strife of slaughter / Wetting of sword-edge, shields with broken bosses in hours after sundown.”
  • Leonora Carrington || Red Horses on the Sidhe, 1996 [detail]
  • Leonora Carrington || Red Horses on the Sidhe, 1996 [detail]

Princeton, NJ

February 15th, 2020

Treasure Hunting || Princeton University Art Museum

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A walk through centuries and civilisations.

  • Spirit tomb guardian, mid-8th century – China [detail]
  • Spirit tomb guardian, China, Tang dynasty, 618-907 [detail]
  • Green-glazed horse, China, Eastern Han dynasty, 25-220
  • Xochipala figurines, Guerrero, Mexico. 400 B.C. – A.D. 200
  • Xochipala figurines, Guerrero, Mexico. 400 B.C. – A.D. 200
  • Xochipala figurines, Guerrero, Mexico. 400 B.C. – A.D. 200
  • Guanyin seated in royal-ease pose, about 1250. China, Southern Song dynasty, 1127-1279
  • Tomb figurines, early 6th century. China, Period of Disunity, 220-589
  • Tomb figurines, early 6th century. China, Period of Disunity, 220-589
  • Ganku, Edo period, 1615-1868 – Tiger and Bamboo, hanging scroll
  • Kurumba artist, Burkina Faso – Headdress, early 20th century [detail]
  • Four Kneeling Musicians, 7th century. Tang dynasty, 618-907
  • Carlo Portelli da Loro || Child, Infant John, and Saint Margaret, 1545–50
  • Jean-Léon Gérôme || Napoleon in Egypt, 1867-68
  • Claude Monet || The Houses of Parliament, Seagulls, 1903
  • Fra Angelico || The Penitent Saint Jerome, 1419-20
  • Frederic, Lord Leighton || After Vespers, 1871

Princeton, NJ

February 15th, 2020

The Sacred Grove || Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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Dating from Toulouse-Lautrec’s student days, this parody of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes’s The Sacred Grove mimics the style and subject of that allegorical composition celebrating the arts and muses but subverts the serious tone. A clockface appears on the ancient portico, a giant tube of paint is held aloft by one of the arts, and a circular loaf of bread, instead of a laurel crown, is held by the kneeling youth. The men advancing from the right are Louis Anquetin, a fellow student; Édouard Dujardin, Symbolist critic and founder of the Revue Wagnérienne; Maurice Barrès, Symbolist author; and Léon Bonnat, Lautrec’s first teacher. Lautrec himself is seen from behind, urinating on the ground, and a police officer tries to keep the intruders in line. [source]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Sacred Grove, 1884
Oil on canvas

Princeton University Art Museum

The lion that was desperate

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The painting portrays the four evangelists with their symbols: Matthew with the angel, Mark with the lion, Luke with the ox, and John with the eagle, receiving the divine inspiration to compose their gospels.

All well and good, but what about that poor lion silently begging to be rescued…?

Abraham Bloemaert || The Four Evangelists, ca. 1612–15 – oil on canvas

Enjoying the collection at Princeton University Art Museum

February 15th, 2020

Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet

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First steps into a new year – with Art

  • Self-Portrait at the Age of Twenty, 1885. Oil on canvas
  • The Sick Girl, 1892. Oil on canvas
  • Street Scene in Paris, ca. 1897. Gouache and oil on cardboard
  • Misa at her Dressing Table, 1898. Distemper on cardboard
  • Self-Portrait, 1897. Oil on cardboard
  • The White and the Black, 1913. Oil on canvas
  • Nude in the Red Room, 1897. Oil on cardboard
  • Nude Holding Her Gown, 1904. Oil on canvas
  • The Lie, 1898. Oil on canvas
  • The Provincial, 1909. Oil on canvas
  • The World’s Fair: Looking at the Jewels, 1901. Woodcuts
  • The World’s Fair: Fireworks, 1901. Woodcut
  • The World’s Fair: The Shower, 1901. Woodcut
  • Laziness, 1986. Woodcutva

From an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

January 2nd, 2020

Art to lift the spirits

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I think we can all use a booster

  • Frank Lloyd Wright || The San Francisco Building. Project, 1913
  • Frances Stark || Chorus Line, 2008. Cut-and-pasted printed and coloured papers on paper
  • Daniel Grataloup || Urban Proposal with Multi Thin-Shell Capsules. Project, 1974
  • Sonja Sekula || The Town of the Poor, 1951. Oil on canvas
  • Florine Stettheimer || Procession: Zizim of Persia, Agnes of Bourganeuf, the Unicorn, and Pierre d’Aubusson. Costume design for artist’s ballet Orphée of the Quat-z-arts, c. 1912
  • Florine Stettheimer || Family Portrait II, 1933. Oil on canvas
  • Florine Stettheimer || Portrait of My Mother, 1925. Oil on canvas
  • Hilma af Klint || The Dove No. 2, Series UW, Group IX, 1925. Oil on canvas
  • Metastadt-Planungsgesellschaft, est. 1969
    Richard Dietrich – Bernd Steigerwald
    Metastadt-Bausystem (Metacity Building System), 1965-72

MoMA New York

December 8th, 2019