A leading light among the California impressionists in the early twentieth century, Redmond was known for his depictions of lush flowers and bright vistas
Rich Associations in the Paintings of Valeri Larko
If you look past the trappings of the twenty-first century that Larko renders so carefully, a much older subject becomes apparent: the sublime
Homage to Hokusai at the Freer
Although best known for his woodblock prints, the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai was never satisfied with that medium, in which another hand, the block cutter’s, was expected to finish the work he himself had begun.
Ways and Means Committee
An initiative by Alice Walton gets art to the places where it’s needed most
Kirchner and color at the Neue Galerie
The first retrospective of the work of German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in sixteen years is on view at the Neue Galerie in New York this fall.
Dark, Difficult Käthe Kollwitz
The word “graphic” is imbued with new meaning in a survey of the German printmaker’s work at the Getty Center
Homage to Ruskin at Yale
Ruskin would publish prolifically until his death in 1900, in the fields of art (five volumes of Modern Painters), architecture (The Stones of Venice and The Seven Lamps of Architecture), even a treatise on economics, Unto This Last, from which an encyclopedic exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, celebrating the bicentennial of the critic’s birth this year, takes its name.
Into the Future at the George Read II House
A nineteenth-century manse in Delaware is getting up to speed with the twenty-first century
Detective Dealer Aids in Recovery of Stolen Revolutionary War Rifle
On October 2, 1971, a rifle dating from the American Revolution was stolen from the Valley Forge Historical Society in rural Pennsylvania. Its whereabouts were unknown until last year, when it was rediscovered by New Oxford, PA-based antiques dealer Kelly Kinzle.
Cameras and Critters
A feeling of intimacy between human beings and animals pervades By Hoof, Wing, Paw, or Fin: Creatures in Photographs, at Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs