“Ask me to paint your gates, your fences, your barns, which I should gladly do, but not the human face,” wrote the great portraitist John Singer Sargent in 1907.
Tea and Symmetry
The Glasgow tearoom designs
of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
for Miss Catherine Cranston.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/23/19–9/30/19
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Done in by Rebellion
At the Museum of the American Revolution, art and artifacts trace the life and death of an Irish officer in the British Army.
Re-envisioning Cole’s Catskills
Thomas Cole used a small camera obscura to frame the landscape and define the composition of his paintings. Contemporary Chinese photographer Shi Guorui uses this ancient optical device to create monumental landscape panoramas.
Reginald Marsh in the sunlight at the Benton
In the 1920s, Marsh traveled several times to Florida and the Caribbean and there he revealed a different, sunnier aspect of his artistic interests.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/16/19–9/22/19
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Last Chance! “Village Enlightenment” at the Bennington Museum
Yanks scratching out a living in Vermont’s Upper Connecticut River Valley in the early 1800s depended on their neighbors for maps, Bibles, and almanacs
The tale of a year at the Huntington
In a year that sees several notable centennial anniversaries, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is commemorating its own one hundredth birthday.
Openings & Closings: Exhibitions, Shows, Fairs 9/9/19–9/15/19
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