John Craxton was one of those eccentric British modernists, like his friends and near contemporaries Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Ivon Hitchens, and Keith Vaughan…
Art Deco in Jamaica
Not long after art deco design received an international showcase at the famed Paris universal exposition of 1925, inspired responses to the new style emerged in virtually every field of the applied and visual arts…
Current and Coming: Hopper’s New York at the Whitney
Edward Hopper has a strong claim to being the Whitney Museum of American Art’s favorite artist: an institution within the institution.
Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat
Alfred Maurer was at the forefront of aesthetic developments throughout his prodigious thirty-five-year career.
Field trip: She Dwelt in Possibility (and This House)
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