A survey of John Singer Sargent’s Iberian paintings is on view at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
Curious Objects: Thomas Commeraw, Free Black Potter in 1800s New York
For nearly two hundred years, from his death in 1823, New York potter Thomas Commeraw was out of sight. In the digital age it finally became possible to positively identify him: as a prosperous free Black craftsman with a manufactory in Corlears Hook.
On view: Glenn Adamson’s Mirror Mirror at Chatsworth
Art and design of today visit a historic British manor house.
In the galleries: The American West at Wigmore
The New York gallery D. Wigmore Fine Art has a special talent for discovering affinities and relationships between works of art from disparate eras and in different styles, and the gallery’s current exhibition—The Changing West: 1865 to 1965—is another potent manifestation of that ability.
Endnotes: The Very Model of an English Collector
Percival D. Griffiths was passionate about collecting English furniture and needlework, forming one of the most important such private collections of its kind ever at Sandridgebury, his country house in Hertfordshire, England…
Field notes: Facing Unpleasant Facts
On John James Audubon (1785–1851) and John Muir (1838–1914), both of whom have come in for an overdue reckoning…
Clay, Commerce, and a Free Man of Color
An important new exhibition traces the life and work of Thomas W. Commeraw, free Black potter of early New York.
The Finest Piece of Walnut Furniture of its Type
An excerpt from the new book English Furniture 1680–1760, The Percival D. Griffiths Collection examines the famed Dickinson desk and bookcase.
Current and coming: Helen LaFrance at the Speed
While not exceedingly well known, Kentucky native Helen LaFrance was one of the most gifted and prolific self-taught artists of the past century…
Object Lesson: Emotion on the Auction Block
When Stair Galleries, an auction house in the small upstate New York city of Hudson, released its catalogue for the sale of famed author Joan Didion’s personal effects, there was one item that immediately caught our eye…