New Acquisitions: Classic Minimalist Carl Andre
My fascination with modernism (doesn’t that term sound old-fashioned)—let me rephrase that—forward-thinking art never seems to diminish. Call me lucky (I think I am), but as we add n ...
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New Acquisitions: Treasured Renaissance Book
I’ve really admired the work of manuscript illuminators since I went to the Newbury Library at the University of Chicago while in grad school. I got to actually hold some of these precious works ...
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New Acquisition: Silkscreen of Walter Darby Bannard
Although I wrote a master’s thesis on Swiss Renaissance art, since then (I’m not saying how long ago that was!) I have become a big fan of the New York School that bloomed immediately foll ...
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New Acquisitions: Yucky Baroque Still Life?
I’ve decided to dedicate my June posts to a series highlighting new images in Davis Art Images’ digital collection that have either blown me away, or, in the least, charmed me. Whenever I ...
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Irony in Modern Photography: Brook Reynolds
Since the mid-1900s, a broad range of experimentation in the form and style of photography has occurred. Experimentation in all types of modernism by artists after World War II (1939–1945) ...
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A Texas Original: Nicholas Clayton
I absolutely love walking around any city I visit and trying to guess the dates of the buildings I encounter (can’t fight the art historian in me!). The revival of past styles was the hallmark o ...
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Not Your Typical Mummy: Roman Period
I’m a big fan/geek when it comes to portraiture. This may stem from the fact that I can’t paint a portrait of someone without it looking like a bad cartoon, but I digress. Additionally, I& ...
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European Abstract Expressionism? Jean-Paul Riopelle
What we generally read in art history texts is that during World War II (1939-1945) many European modernist artists fled to the US and ended up in New York. At the same time, many American artists wit ...
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Today = Tradition: Michikawa Shōzō
I’m able to trace my mother’s side of the family back to the Middle Ages in Switzerland, hence (love using that word whenever I can), I’m totally appreciative of tradition. As you kn ...
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One Day in 1839: Frederick Catherwood
Always the geek interested in little-discussed aspects of the history of art, I bring you the art of a true pioneer! It took three centuries for some archeologists/art historians to become interested ...
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