Two current exhibitions feature notable painters of the urban scene, Richard Estes and John Dubrow.
Voyeurs in Virgin Territory, a show of nineteenth-century landscape painting on view at Questroyal Fine Art, is a beauty.
The painter best known for artful evanescence may still surprise us for the exactness of drawing that characterizes his prints.
For Walter Liedtke, it was imperative to humanize rather than deify artists.
Welliver’s palette, devoid of earth tones, was chosen to suggest the presence of air and to create an image that would parallel, rather than replicate, the luminosity of nature.
Deane’s great skill was his ability to transcribe human forms from memory…. His owlish face was as quick to slyly smile as it was to cloud over, for he was at once one of the most brilliant and emotionally kinetic people I’ve ever known.
The Metropolitan Museum’s Madame Cezanne and its accompanying catalogue go a long way toward rewriting a well-worn narrative of conjugal disfunction.
I approach Andrew Wyeth’s work circumspectly, in order to tease apart and separate the art from the commodity.
There are a couple of exhibitions of nineteenth-century landscape painting now on view at the Morgan Library & Museum.
A master of the unbroken contour, Schiele could suggest the living swells and valleys of a figure so dexterously that any elaboration by means of value would have been, well, academic.