Solo Goya

A new exhibition explores the variety of Goya’s preoccupations—from war to witchcraft, royalty to riffraff.

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Charles Burchfield: Back to Nature

Charles Burchfield, View From Our Front Porch at Salem, Ohio, May 23, 1917, watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper, 22 x 20.

After a detour into social realism, Charles Burchfield returned to his first love, landscape painting, but with new techniques that let the viewer partake of the artist’s mystical, multi-sensory experience.

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Portrait

Jamie Wyeth, Portrait of Shorty, 1963, oil on canvas.

Jamie Wyeth gets a retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston that looks beyond his status as American art royalty.

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Not Made by Hands

Amethyst, La Sopressa Mine, Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico, 5 inches tall.

Wrested from the depths of the earth but possessing a beauty that seems almost unearthly, fine mineral specimens are now being collected as natural works of art.

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