Although Breck was not the first painter to depict Venice using an impressionist technique, he was the first American to create a large body of Venetian views in that style.
A Man of Parts: The house and collection built by the visionary director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
Understanding the house means understanding the man who created it, the man who at twenty-seven became acting director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and made the country’s oldest public art museum the most talked about arts institution in the country.
Current and Coming: The Sistine Chapel in San Antonio
How did filmmakers re-create the majesty of Michelangelo’s masterpiece in the days before digital computer effects? With gigantic hand-painted scenic backdrops.
Wandering Eye: What to wondering eyes should appear
What the editors of The Magazine ANTIQUES are looking at this week
“Serenity, even a kind of nobility”: Notes on a trailblazing-yet-forgotten American artist, Alethea Hill Platt
Reviewers called Plattʼs landscapes “brilliant in tone but true to the colors found in sky and plain and vale,” and praised her interiors for “quaintness of type and richness of color in shadowy corners and firelit hearths”
“An Unsuspected Man of Genius”
The Cincinnati Art Museum examines the career of a forgotten favorite son, the artist Frank Duveneck.
Curious Objects: Mystery Box
Bright young antiques dealers Pippa Biddle and Benjamin Davidson come on the pod to talk treasure—specifically, a homely wooden box that punches above its weight, thanks to its curious Revolutionary War provenance and a Herman Melville connection
Openings and Closings: December 16 to December 22
Check out what’s going on this week at museums across the country!
On Books – Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex by Katherine Manthorne
A biography of the forgotten Hudson River school artist Eliza Pratt Greatorex.
Bluegrass Treasures: A trio of excerpts from Into the Bluegrass: Art and Artistry of Kentucky’s Historic Icons
A trio of excerpts from a new book that celebrates the art of the early decade of the commonwealth of Kentucky.