Old Masters

An exhibition devoted to Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, N.Y., and the circle of artists and poets who gathered there showcases an atmosphere of inspiration, leisure, and beauty. In his poem “June 30, 1974,” the poet James Schuyler describes an early summer morning in the Hamptons. He begins: “Let me tell you/that this weekend Sunday/morning…

As painter, printmaker, and teacher, Leonard Edmondson cultivated the possibilities of abstract modernism. By John Dorfman   “My painting is not art of rebellion but one of discovery and sharing. I have found satisfaction in the spontaneous, often compulsive, act of drawing and painting.” This personal statement by Leonard Edmondson manages, with extreme concision, to…

In her wildly energetic paintings, Jackie Saccoccio channels the sublimity of Old Masters and the chaos of 21st-century life. In the art of Jackie Saccoccio, it’s as if the souls of the Baroque and Mannerism were reincarnated in an Abstract Expressionist body. The visual complexity and explosive paint handling of her oils on canvas, coupled…

An exhibition featuring depictions of women from the turn of the 20th century tells many tales.

Contemporary Native American painter Tony Abeyta finds emotion in landscape.

Karl Benjamin loved to make rules—and then break them.

An exhibition at the Met highlights the career and collections of Tiffany’s great silver designer, Edward C. Moore.

Yoshitoshi’s “100 Aspects of the Moon” are revealed in full at the Dayton Art Institute.

Jacob Lawrence’s great lost Struggle series is finally reunited and exhibited—and it couldn’t come at a more appropriate time.