19th Century Art

A new exhibition tells the story of three American women of Japanese descent and expands the story of American Art. By Ashley Busby In recent years, the museum world has highlighted the work of previously underrecognized artists, in part to reenergize collections and tell new stories, but more importantly as a means to question the…

The Clark Art Institute receives one of its largest gifts—331 works of art from the foundation of Aso O. Tavitian. Time soon to build a new wing to house the treasures. By Patti Zielinski Shortly after Esther Bell began working as a curator at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, she was invited to…

The Norton Museum of Art puts on the gloves for an inspiring show it has mounted about the art of, and about, boxing By David Masello A group of Palm Beach senior citizens was ready for a fight when they visited the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. They had come to see…

Though long dispersed, the art of Wilhelmina Godfrey comes together due to the diligence of a young curator By David Masello Tiffany Gaines had an idea a few years ago that she jotted down on a Post-It note. It read: “Wilhelmina Godfrey solo show?” At the time Gaines wrote that note to herself, she was…

The Art and Times of Tamara Lempicka By Lilly Wei Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) has always been enveloped in a (couture) cloak of mystery, much of it of her own design, created by a disarming, if also disingenuous, vagueness in the telling of her life story that was only loosely fitted to facts. Her art,…

The Hepworth Wakefield in England mounts an exhibition exploring the significance of Surrealist landscape from the early practitioners to today’s rising stars. By Patti Zielinski There is little in this world more surreal than war. During World War I, as a young medical student, André Breton was sent to the frontlines at Verdun, France, as…

Never a household name, Herman Cherry produced abstractions featuring gestural color on par with his New York School peers. By Ashely Busby Artist Herman Cherry (1909–1992) experienced but also relished the struggle inherent in creative life. In conversation with critic Judd Tully, the artist compared his own path toward abstraction as an arduous journey. He…

  The late Expressionist painter shows us how geometry can be as spirited as gesture by Lilly Wei Katherine Porter died this past April at the age of 82 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A month before, the unflaggingly productive painter had an exhibition in Santa Fe at the LewAllen Galleries aptly titled “Brilliance of…

Museums celebrate 150 years of Impressionism by Ruth Lopez “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment” at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., organized with the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, celebrates the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition. Of all the origin stories that exist in the field of art history, the birth of Impressionism…