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.
Current and Coming: Delayed Debuts in LA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has at last unveiled Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980.
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
Current and Coming: Morris Hirshfield at AFAM
Here is proof, once again, that the spark of artistic genius may glow in the hearts of even the most unlikely-seeming people.
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.
Current and Coming: Delayed Debuts in Greenwich
In Connecticut, the Greenwich Historical Society has finally been able to mount Life and Art: The Greenwich Paintings of John Henry Twachtman.
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
Dealer profile: A Connoisseur for All Seasons
ON ART DEALER AND COLLECTOR DEEDEE WIGMORE AND HER AESTHETIC AMBIDEXTERITY You could say that Deedee Wigmore is a time traveler, of sorts. At home, she dwells in the nineteenth century. The apartment she shares with her husband, philanthropist Barrie A. Wigmore, features a museum-worthy collection of American aesthetic movement furniture and ceramics, as well as paintings by artists of …
Current and Coming: Above and beyond at LACMA
Everyone is familiar with mid-century New York’s abstract expressionist scene; less so, perhaps, with the Transcendental Painting Group of the American Southwest…