The department of image collections has been fortunate to acquire the photographic research collections of many art historians affiliated with the National Gallery of Art and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
More Ann Percy (1940–)* Curator of drawings at Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Known for playfully sensuous terracotta nymphs and satyrs, Clodion also portrayed more serious subjects from Classical myth and history. An ancient draped figure at the Uffizi in Florence, then known as a vestal, inspired him during a stay in Italy to make several statuettes of a priestess of the Roman hearth goddess Vesta, pouring out oil to feed the sacred fire.
Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000: 250-251, under no. 127. 2005 Baillio
In One Year the Milkweed , one of several so-called color veil paintings Gorky made in 1944, films of paint have been washed unevenly across the canvas, and evocative but indistinct forms have been brushed in. Overall green and brown hues suggest a landscape, but there are no identifiable landscape forms and no spatial recession.
York; Phoenix Art Museum, 2005, pl. 85. 2009 Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia
(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia
Despite its meticulous draftsmanship and precise detail, Lane’s work is far more than a simple inventory of harbor activity. The diminutive figures and carefully rendered vessels remain secondary to the vast expanse of sky, where shimmering light creates a tranquil, idyllic mood.
Britain, London; Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia
A play and a painting appear to have merged in Jan van Eyck’s dramatic Annunciation , which is rich with Christian symbolism. The rainbow-winged archangel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary that God has chosen her to bear his son.
and fig. 2 (detail). 1998 Recognizing Van Eyck, The National Gallery, London; Philadelphia
works from the Eddleman and Fisher collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia
Who is this elegant lady? A noblewoman surely, and most likely a member of the court of Cosimo I de‘ Medici, Duke of Florence in the mid-sixteenth century.
Philadelphia, 1916: unpaginated, repro. 1923 Paintings in the Collection of Joseph
Philadelphia and New York, 1942: pl. 338. 1943 Swarzenski, Georg.
