Connections in the Patton Collection
Besides adding new artists to the NCMA collection, this transformative gift deepens our appreciation of artists already represented…
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Besides adding new artists to the NCMA collection, this transformative gift deepens our appreciation of artists already represented…
Connections in the Patton Collection Read More »
Motherwell wrote, “I begin painting with a series of mistakes. The painting comes out of the correction of mistakes by feeling.”..
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Years after witnessing the “dread realities of flood misery” in Missouri, Thomas Hart Benton returns to a sketch he made of a struggling family…
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After one early review suggested that death was not sufficiently “sanctified†in Lambdin’s picture, he changed the title…
Eugene Berman often used mythology as a framework to comment on the violence of WWII. Is this Medusa a cataclysmic force or a dancer in deep curtsy?
“This is what God would have built if he had the money.â€
Hearst’s Other Castle Read More »
A painter himself, the comedian was also a collector.
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Painted in 1916 during a summer in Maine, Dock Builders depicts the hard laboring lives of Down East people.
New in the American Galleries: George Bellows Read More »