Folk art and the designs of Alexander Girard.
Lone star
How Ima Hogg brought modern art to Texas.
Life at the top
Edgar Degas and the Paris millinery trade.
Regarding Henri Matisse
A new exhibition explores the influence of the French master on American art.
When the Bauhaus came to Monte Albán
A new show looks at Josef and Anni Albers as collectors of ancient artifacts.
Man of distinction
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates Count Carl Gustaf Tessin, art patron extraordinaire.
Living with Antiques: Compass Points
The man who brought together the furniture and works of art in two Texas homes takes inspiration from several directions.
Growing Interests: Expanding the collections at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
In 1926 John D. Rockefeller Jr. formally embarked on the project that would become the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation by purchasing Philip Ludwell’s house of about 1775 on Duke of Gloucester Street. That acquisition, the first “antique” in Colonial Williamsburg’s collection, came to play a pivotal role in the founding of what would eventually be the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum.
Revisiting The Art of the Common Man
The exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, 1750–1900 was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City from November 30, 1932, through January 14, 1933. Presenting American folk art as part of a continuous artistic tradition reaching back to the eighteenth century, it was the most comprehensive, illuminating display of the subject held up to that time.
Missing pieces
Scholars hope to reunite all thirty paintings in Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series, his epic of early American history. But the whereabouts of several panels is unknown.