Emily Dickinson’s butter-colored brick home in Amherst, Massachusetts, began drawing the curious long before her enigmatic poetry appeared in print.
Ozark Roadside Tourist Pottery: The Legend of Harold Horine
On a day in 1935, ceramist Harold Horine and his mother packed up their car in their hometown of Hollister, Missouri, and headed west.
We’re No Angels: Women and allegory in the art of Mary Lizzie Macomber
Mary Lizzie Macomber was among the late nineteenth-century American artists who closely emulated the figurative work of the Pre-Raphaelites
Field Notes: Philadelphia Stories
Big things are afoot at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, this country’s first museum and school of fine arts, very big things.
THE FLOWERING OF AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM IN GLOUCESTER
How Frank Duveneck fostered the rise of a new painting genre in the coastal Massachusetts town of Gloucester
Selections from 100 years of Antiques covers: Late Fall edition
A look back on 100 years of Antiques covers from the Late Fall
Forging Ahead
Artist of Iron Samuel Yellin and the Landmark Year 1922 The year 1922 has always seemed magical to me. Gertrude Stein published Geography and Plays; James Joyce issued Ulysses; and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land appeared. On the European continent, modernist works tested the boundaries of painting. Giorgio de Chirico painted Il figliol prodigo, Paul Klee created Twittering Machine, …
First Against the Wall
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores the work of Diego Rivera in America at scales large and small
Current and Coming: Spanish Colonial Threads at the Blanton
You are what you wear? Studies of fashion play a key role in understanding historical social and cultural structures, as demonstrated by Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America, a current exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art.
Digital doings: From Shakers to Conquistadors
From Shakers to Conquistadors