Is a picture a portrait if it doesn’t include a face? Alfred Stieglitz took hundreds of photographs of his wife, artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
“July 30, 1989; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los
1999 Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los
George Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio, on August 12, 1882, the only child of a successful building contractor from Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York. He entered Ohio State University in 1901, where he played baseball and basketball and made drawings for college publications.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Columbus
Hutton Galleries, New York, 1968, no. 16, color repro. 1970 The Cubist Epoch, Los
We don’t know who this family is, but the inscription on the lid of the box on the floor tells us the date: April 1, 1756.
and other documents; Duveen Brothers Records, Getty Research Institute Library, Los
Nicolas Lancret was one of Antoine Watteau’s most talented followers and helped to disseminate the taste for fête-galante subjects in the eighteenth century. On the far left musicians are hidden amidst the trees, while across the canvas from left to right, arranged on an exaggerated S curve, stylishly dressed spectators have assembled in intimate groups to watch a couple perform a pas de deux.
some of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s paintings (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
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
University Art Museum, Berkeley, California. 1974 American Narrative Painting, Los
Wearing nearly matching outfits, Henry, George, and John Westwood look out from the canvas. The brothers all have fair, wispy hair and delicate facial features.
Bicentennial Administration, 6 venues (Paris, Warsaw, London, New York, Chicago, Los
