California paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries represent an exciting opportunity for collectors in search of beauty and quality. Continue reading
Coastal Impressions: A Look at the California Art Scene
Impressionism
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American Impressionism: Florence Exhibition Examines American and Italian Influences
In the late 19th century, American artists and their patrons descended on “the Boston of Italy,” and now the city is commemorating the event with a show at the Palazzo Strozzi. Continue reading
Impressionism: Portland Exhibition Reveals the Private Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas kept a great deal to himself—not only his private life but some of his most interesting artworks. Continue reading
Into The Woods
Inside the Kröller-Müller Museum, deep in the Dutch countryside, lies one of the world’s great Van Gogh collections, and behind it lies one of the great stories of 20th-century collecting. Continue reading
Talking Pictures: A Life in Letters
Vincent van Gogh’s letters have offered the general public an intimate view of the artist’s life and psyche since at least 1893, when the French painter Émile Bernard published a selection of items that he had received from Van Gogh in the Mercure de France. This was just three years after the troubled Dutchman’s death by suicide at the age of 37, during a period when the name Van Gogh was little known beyond a small community of avant-garde artists. Continue reading
Exhibitions: Bright Forecast
In 1926, the year of his death, Claude Monet wrote, “The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.” The Impressionists were indebted to a long tradition of artists who went beyond the studio walls to sketch and paint outdoors. Continue reading