THE MAGAZINE
JULY/AUGUST 2018
Editor’s letter
Gregory Cerio
Critical thinking / Difficult issues
Current and coming
A Home for Surrealism in Chicago, chiaroscuro woodcuts at LACMA, a new exhibition at the Thomas Cole House, and more
Farther afield
On Books
Events
Katherine Lanza
Endnotes
Folk art from the post office
Eleanor H. Gustafson
Features
The world of Bill Traylor
A sweeping retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum examines the life and work of one of the most remarkable figures in American art
Leslie Umberger
Leslie Umberger
Glazing points
A pair of reverse-painted-on-glass
miniatures offers new insights into the work of early
American portrait artist Benjamin Greenleaf
Brian Ehrlich
Brian Ehrlich
Radical modernist and a shepherd at heart
An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art offers an opportunity to appreciate the earthy, elemental spirit in the sculptures of Constantin Brancusi
James Gardner
James Gardner
Warp, weft, and the American West
An exhibition in
Colonial Williamsburg traces the evolution of Navajo
pictorial weavings
Kimberly Smith Ivey
Kimberly Smith Ivey
Caribbean twilight
The Jamaican artist John Dunkley
invested colorful scenes of Caribbean life with a brooding sense of disquiet
David Ebony
David Ebony
Ornaments in the landscape
The Winterthur Museum
in Delaware unveils an eye-catching exhibition of
seven new garden follies
Carol Long
Carol Long
Art, science, and the Second Great Awakening
The
American Folk Art Museum examines the work of Orra White Hitchcock, scientific illustrator and minister’s wife
Stacy C. Hollander
Stacy C. Hollander
Art without adjectives
The Met’s exhibition of work
from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation has the power
to reframe the critical discussion of art
Elizabeth Pochoda
Elizabeth Pochoda