Magazine January/February 2023

Gregory Cerio

Facing Unpleasant Facts
Elizabeth Pochoda

WPA-era paintings at the Crocker; Frederic Church’s Icebergs at Olana; the self-taught artist Helen LaFrance at the Speed; and more

John Craxton’s Sensuous Odyssey: Intrepid vagabond and quixotic painter, the British artist John Craxton receives his first survey in his beloved Greece
David Ebony

Son et Lumière, Twenty-First-Century Style: A visit to an “immersive” art show in New York
James Gardner

Emotion on the Auction Block
Benjamin Davidson and Pippa Biddle

Notable museum catalogues and other books from the past year
Elizabeth Lanza

Elizabeth Lanza

The Very Model of an English Collector
Eleanor H. Gustafson

The richly elegant furniture designs of Burnett Webster
Henry Haye

On the art of Ugo Mochi and other past masters of the animal silhouette
William McCracken Peck

An excerpt from the new book English Furniture 1680–1760, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection examines the famed Dickinson desk and bookcase
Christian Jussel and William DeGregorio

An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art casts new light on Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio
James Gardner

A visit to William Morris’s newly restored country home in Oxfordshire, Kelmscott Manor
Barrymore Laurence Scherer

An important new exhibition traces the life and work of Thomas W. Commeraw, free Black potter of early New York
Mark Shapiro

Restoring the Daniel Hiester house, an eighteenth-century Pennsylvania gem
Lisa Minardi with photography by Gavin Ashworth and Michael E. Myers