(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
Mythological Painting from Watteau to David, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Philadelphia
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 110, color repro. 2002 Barnett Newman, Philadelphia
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.
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.
Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Philadelphia
