Five Peacocks from Master Enamelist Frank J. Marshall

Joseph Cunningham Art

Artist Frank Marshall pushed the traditional boundaries of enameling technique and arts and crafts design, creating a rich body of work around 1900.

Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 1/22/20–1/28/20

Jenamarie Boots Exhibitions

See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world

Rhode Island gets its due

Editorial Staff Exhibitions

Thanks to an active export market that sent its wares to the southern colonies, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean, furniture makers of Rhode Island enjoyed an influence far greater than their industry’s small size. The region’s superlative, and often misattributed, craftsmanship from the colonial and early Federal periods is the focus of a new exhibition, Art and Industry in …

Dennis Miller, Helen Keller, Bunker

Alexander Nemerov Art

The solemn nothings that  fill our everyday life blossom suddenly into bright possibilities  —Helen Keller  Life is such an actual thing —Dennis Miller Bunker Is it just me or is Dennis Miller Bunker’s painting Wild Asters more than beautiful (Fig. 1)? The blue stream rushes under us, grasses bending in the current, and the streamside bushes spray on either bank. …

End notes: John Singer Sargent’s portraits at the MET

Editorial Staff Art

“Scintillating…addictive” applauded The Guardian; “outstanding…one of the best I’ve ever seen,” acclaimed The Telegraph; “mesmerising” said The Spectator. All were describing the exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends at London’s National Portrait Gallery earlier this year. But for anyone in New York this summer, it gets even better. An expanded version of the show of John Singer Sargent’s portraits …