Landscape Paintings

For the full story click on the link below for your Digital subscription: By Jesse Gkass Helen Frankenthaler, who began making prints in 1961 and who is now regarded as instrumental in the postwar revival of American printmaking, called music the most abstract of all arts, and yet she transposed the feeling of music into…

Making the case that a neighborhood, the luxe California locale of Bel-Air, is one of America’s most coveted antiques By David Masello One of America’s most beautiful places is one that largely can’t be seen. Many of Bel-Air’s greatest homes, estates, and gardens, even the vistas afforded from hilltops that take in the full expanse…

Northern Renaissance Personages Gather in London By Roger Harris In the first decades of the 1400s, long before the art of photography was born in 1839, Jan van Eyck (c.1395–1441) was honing his skills as a painter of oil portraits—and producing works of art with his brush that were, quite remarkably, photographic in their ability…

Although Mary Cassatt is regarded as one of the great Impressionists, it was later in her career that she created the masterpieces that continue to define her By David Masello There’s a strategy to visiting the Art Institute of Chicago. The museum has so many iconic works in its collection, paintings you’ve seen as images…

Photographer Calvin Seibert takes road trips through the American West in search of sites that most people wouldn’t find photogenic, but through his lens become art.  By Jesse Glass Calvin Seibert is a purist in his artistic approach. “I once waited for over an hour for the lighting to be just right on an Oklahoma…

As you look at these hyperrealistic sculptures on display in Quebec City, you can’t help but wait for them to breathe and talk By David Masello An attractive young man, casually garbed in shorts and a t-shirt, appears to levitate over the floor, as if in an otherworldly state of ecstasy. An elderly woman brings…

In Santa Fe, celebrated museums, vibrant markets, historic architecture, and unforgettable performances reveal a city where centuries of artistic tradition continue to thrive. Art & Antiques celebrates the summer season, when the city’s creative energy reaches its peak. By Christine Rogel Certain artistic experiences leave a lasting impression, revealing the profound power art holds to…

An exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reveals an array of exquisite garments worn by two fashionable Chinese women who lived through multiple eras By Michael Govan The reopening last spring of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) might have been the biggest news in the world of art museums,…

A new show at Tate Britain reveals the singular way James McNeill Whistler looked at the world and found the material for his art By David Masello James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) was the best kind of visitor and observer of place. Wherever he roamed and lived, mostly in Europe, he sought out sites for his…