Mystic Sky with Self-Portrait by Betye Saar, Robert Franklin, Brandywine Workshop and Archives https://www.nga.gov/artworks/227007-mystic-sky-self-portrait
history & notes Artwork History Provenance Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia
history & notes Artwork History Provenance Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia
2014.79.232 Artwork history & notes Artwork History Provenance Eadweard Muybridge, Philadelphia
history & notes Artwork History Provenance Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia
Louis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-1970, no. 69, repro.
history & notes Artwork History Provenance Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia
Exhibition History 1931 Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia
This group portrait represents George Washington’s military, political, and family life. The president, in a Revolutionary War uniform, rests his hand on a plan for Washington, DC, the site for the new US capital.
Clarke, Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, annotated with information from
George Luks was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1866 to a lively and cultured family. Luks’s father, a multilingual doctor, emigrated from Poland;
alter ego, the boxer “Chicago Whitey.� In the early 1890s, Luks worked in Philadelphia
Piet Mondrian intended his abstract or so-called „neo-plastic“ paintings to express his fundamentally spiritual notion that universal harmonies preside in nature. The horizontal and vertical elements of his compositions, assiduously calibrated to produce a balanced asymmetry, represented forces of opposition that parallel the dynamic equilibrium at work in the natural world.
Providence, 1966, no. 112 Piet Mondrian 1872-1944, The Art Gallery of Toronto; The Philadelphia
Robert Torchia Robert Wilson Torchia is an independent art historian based in the Philadelphia