Mark Rothko made more than 1,000 paintings on paper. Get an inside look at his methods and materials.
Liberman photography archive, ca. 1925-ca. 1998, The Getty Research Institute, Los
Trick or treat? Discover artists‘ materials that range from spooky to delicious.
The stain from Los Angeles tap water is nearly invisible, while Worcestershire sauce
Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
The obscure iconography of Dosso’s canvas has caused much speculation. In the past it has been titled simply Scene from a Legend and, more often, Departure of the Argonauts.
It is likely to be no. 7, titled “Recompocision que hacen los Frigios de sus navesâ
Cézanne’s work, especially landscape paintings, increasingly verged on abstraction in the artist’s last two decades. In this study of light and reflection, structures on the bank and on the river are simplified into geometric shapes that contrast with the organic lushness surrounding them.
1999 Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los
1999 Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los
Wildenstein’s (Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Getty Research Institute, Los
In her youth, Georgia O’Keeffe had been particularly fascinated by the jack-in-the-pulpit. In 1930, she executed a series of six paintings of the common North American herbaceous flowering plant at Lake George in New York.
Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los
Between 1877 and 1878, Gustave Caillebotte made a series of paintings focusing on swimmers, fishermen, rowers, and canoers at his family estate in Yerres. In Skiffs , which was exhibited at the fourth impressionist exhibition in 1879 under the name Pésissoires sur L’Yerres (Flat-Bottom Canoes on the Yerres) , he adopted the short, broken brushstrokes of Monet and the bold palette of Renoir, but achieved a much different effect:
1999 Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los
