The 90-Year-Old Art Legend Who’s Become Hollywood’s Court Painter
For stars from Bette Davis to Angelina Jolie, the ultimate rite of passagesince the 1950s has been sitting for the legendary ...
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CT Culture Corner: Mattatuck art spurs trivia question, plus Tudor stare-down
This week, the Mattatuck Museum is exhibiting the art of Elizabeth Catlett, the first person, first woman and first African-American to earn a degree from this celebrated university. Can you name the ...
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Van Gogh’s Radiant Portraits of a Postman’s Family Get a Rare Reunion
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin ...
‘Amy Sherald: American Sublime’ At The Whitney Re-imagines American Realism With Singular Visual Narratives
Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, who were foundational to the Whitney’s founding in 1930, by presenting a new ...
Historic Women Artists Of The American West Highlighted In Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Trailblazers at the Turn of the 20th century" presents the work of five historic female artists living and working in Wyoming ...
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Oregon’s Cowboy Artist
When Eugene lawyer Roger Saydack was growing up in Detroit, Michigan, his father made it a point to regularly take him and ...
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American Century Championship tickets on sale April 1
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Tickets for the 36 th annual American Century Championship, celebrity golf’s leading tournament with more than 80 sports and entertainment superstars, go on sale ...
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Matisse wanted to buy a Van Gogh portrait—instead, his brother bought a bicycle
He fell in love with L’Arlesienne and wanted to buy the portrait of the woman of Arles, which was being offered for just 150 francs (then equivalent to £6). But the impoverished painter still ...
Maybe the most important American artist you’ve never heard of
I grew up in an American apartheid,” he said. “Every aspect of my life was dictated by race.” He not only lived through but participated in the civil rights movement. The strange part, really, is that ...
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Art & 19th Century & Victorians
The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as the communist regime collapsed, that’s precisely what happened. @StephenSmithWDS wonders how ...
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This regal art museum in a tiny Washington town is about to celebrate its 85th anniversary
Edward Moran (American [b ... Lifes” - Features works by the 20th-century painter Robert Douglas Hunter, who was influenced by 19th-century classical painting traditions.
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What it could mean to abandon the government’s huge art collection
Seymour Fogel's 1938 “The Wealth of the Nation,” one of thousands of New Deal-era works owned by the General Services Administration, suggests a continuum of American productivity, from ...