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Impressionism

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Valencia Beach: Morning Light, oil on canvas, 1908.

The Sun King

The welcome that the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida received in the U.S. was as warm as the light in his pictures.

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André Lhote, Café au bord de la mer, circa 1921, oil on canvas, 20 x 25 ½ inches,

Lake Shore Unlimited

Chicago sets its own tone, artistically and otherwise, and its galleries and museums are great places to make discoveries.

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A.G. Rizzoli, Alfredo Capobianco and Family Symbolically Sketched/Palazzo del Capobianco, 1937, ink on rag paper

Blurring Boundaries

As the once-offbeat genre of outsider art becomes ever more popular, will it retain its special aura?

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Gordon Onslow Ford, Temptations of the Painter, 1941, oil on canvas, 46 x 60 inches;

Fantastic Voyage

Gordon Onslow Ford traveled through inner worlds of perception toward a new way of seeing and being.

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

Not Made by Hands

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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Louis Comfort Tiffany, Group of Tiffany vases;

A Flowering of Talent

Louis Comfort Tiffany brought nature’s beauty indoors with his luxe glass creations, which are being highlighted in several current museum shows.

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Richard Merkin, Gertrude and George, 1979, pastel;

Keeping It Real

Works from the Sara Roby Foundation Collection, now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, broaden the definition of American realism.

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John Wood, Blue Cut Cube, 2014, 10 x 15 x 10 inches.;

Crystallizing an Idea

Helped by new technologies, today’s glass artists are pushing this ancient medium beyond its traditional boundaries.

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Sigmar Polke, Untitled (Rorschach), c. 1999, colored ink in bound notebook, 192 pages;

Shape-Shifter

Sigmar Polke, one of postwar Germany’s most important artists, had a penchant for mystery.

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