Art in America seemed to reach a great ascendancy in the decade of the 1890’s when there was a symptomatic, wide-spread restlessness and a spirit of emancipation among progressive artistic circles. A considerable number of people today have an appreciation of American painting, not merely from the point of view of the collector of rare items ...

2023年4月25日 · An in-depth investigation into the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collecting practices related to its collection of Native American art has uncovered lax attention to provenance on the part of the New York institution. Conducted by nonprofit newsroom ProPublica, the study found that a number of artifacts in the museum’s collection were ...

The esthetic-personality question is well covered in the catalogue essay, in which the guest curators, Sandra Brant and Elissa Cullman, point out sensibly that American commercial imagery is near the heart of both Warhol’s art and his folk art collection, and go on to tell us that as a collector Andy never haggles over prices and always pays ...

2024年4月25日 · The Art Institute, which bought Russian War Prisoner in 1966, asserts that the collection, including its Schiele work, was legally sold to Kornfeld by Lukacs in 1956. Kornfeld (who died last spring) supplied proof of the works’ provenance: Bragg’s office believes it was forged, while the museum says there is no evidence that it is not genuine.

These are some great paintings. But great paintings only tell so much of the story of American art. The story thus far, in any case, is provisional; this is a “first pass,” a single presentation of more than four hundred works from the nascent collection (evolving is the buzzword). Currently, its strengths are colonial portraiture and ...

The Huntington art collection has probably suffered by being associated exclusively in the public mind with two or three familiar masterpieces: The Blue Boy, Pinkie and Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse. But these paintings are only the best known items in a vast but closely integrated collection concerned with art in England and France during ...

“indian skies: the howard hodgkin collection of indian court painting” (metropolitan museum of art, new york; curated by john guy and navina najat haidar) Hodgkin’s art teacher at Eton College, Wilfrid Blunt, introduced the artist to Indian art as a teenager, and, starting in 1964, he made countless visits to the country.

Craig Miller, a member of the Department of American Decorative Arts from 1978 to 1983, was placed in charge of the post-1876 decorative-art collection in 1981. Examples of Art Deco, Moderne, and Modernist designs were added to the collection in cooperation with the Department of Twentieth Century Art, along with purchases of Arts and Crafts ...

2024年10月28日 · The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has received a major donation from the Aso O. Tavitian Foundation, the New York Times reports. Included in the gift are 331 works by renowned European artists of the Renaissance and later, as well as more than $45 million to cover the costs of the collection’s care, a curator to oversee ...

2015年4月22日 · Philanthropists Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson have donated a major private contemporary art collection with a value estimated at $400 million to the Art Institute of Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune’s Steve Johnson. With works by Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, the forty-two-piece collection is the largest gift of art in the museum’s ...