After the hoopla of Americana Week and the glitter of the Winter Show, the art connoisseurial scene in New York takes takes a decidedly soigné turn with the Master Drawings program.
Master of Dramatic Composition
Celebrating the Venetian artist Tintoretto at five hundred
“Their wings are my protest”
Exhibitions in Britain and America celebrate the beautiful anachronisms of the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers
Victor Hugo’s storm-swept drawings at the Hammer
Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles shines a light on sixty-four drawings selected from the more than three thousand sheets of illustrations that Hugo left to the world.
“Traveling to see what is around the corner”
Painter, ceramist, couturier, and bon vivant—introducing the prolific Edith Varian Cockcroft
Taking in the scene at the Delaware Antiques Show
We dropped in for opening night at the 55th annual edition of the Delaware Antiques Show.
The American Art Fair Rolls an Eleven
Anyone who’s seen the 1952 comedy film Pat and Mike will recall the line when New York sports promoter Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy) sizes up Katharine Hepburn’s character, Pat Pemberton—a multitalented athlete modeled on Babe Zaharias.
New Life for a Renaissance Woman from Brooklyn
Back in January, a painting at Skinner Auctions’ sale of American and European Works of Art caught the eye of journalist and historian Eve M. Kahn. It was striking: a seated, semi-nude woman wearing a long, flowing train, tightly cropped and rendered with deft, impressionistic brush strokes. Kahn was eager to learn more about the artist, Edith Varian Cockcroft (1881–1962), but the facts of the Brooklyn native’s life proved elusive.
Caribbean twilight
The Jamaican artist John Dunkley invested colorful scenes of Caribbean life with a brooding sense of disquiet.
Voydite! An exhibition of rarely seen Fabergé treasures at the new A La Vielle Russie
From May 1 to the 18th, ALVR will hold their inaugural exhibition in the new digs: an array of rarities recently on loan for the Royal Fabergé show that closed in February at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England.