Cezanne was deeply attached to Provence, the region in southern France where he was born and raised. He often painted its sundrenched terrain.
Drawings by Representative Modern Masters, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Johns has long been concerned with the visual and conceptual act of decoding. His various manners of painting and drawing, for example, frequently result in a congested accumulation of marks or signs, while his materials include encaustic (a thick, quick-drying wax medium that allows for a visible layering of brushstrokes) as well as objects that have been mounted on the canvas in the manner of assemblage and collage.
(Greene Street), New York, 1984, no cat. 1988 Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974, Philadelphia
Chester Exhibition History 1943 Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia
mounted on album sheet Accession ID 2015.25.4.3 Not on view Artwork Plan of Philadelphia
mounted on album sheet Accession ID 2015.25.4.3 Not on view Artwork Plan of Philadelphia
mounted on album sheet Accession ID 2015.25.4.3 Not on view Artwork Plan of Philadelphia
Hendrick ter Brugghen excelled at capturing the rhythms of music in the very way he composed his paintings. In this remarkable image a bagpipe player, seen in strict profile, squeezes the leather bag between his forearms as he blows through the instrument’s pipe and fingers a tune on the chanter.
Exhibition History 1984 Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, Philadelphia
mounted on album sheet Accession ID 2015.25.4.3 Not on view Artwork Plan of Philadelphia
Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1904, no. 29 1943 Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia
Club, New York, 1937, no. 41. 1943 Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia
