As all portrait artists know, there is something solemnly ceremonious about the full-profile position. We do not make eye contact—that being somehow beneath the authority of the subject—just as the set mouth seems to be not just momentarily, but eternally, silent.
Feb 1, 2021, 11:00 AM
The story and relationship behind two of the best-known works in the Art Students League of New York’s permanent collection.
Notable work from students in the classes of Max Ginsburg, Frank Porcu, Amy Weiskopf, and Michele Liebler.
One portrait reveals the interconnections between six artists over three generations.
Mar 15, 2019, 4:52 PM
All three portraits had been on view recently as part of McKenzie’s retrospective at the Erie Art Museum.
The Met is an excellent venue for an intergenerational viewing experience because everyone, regardless of age, can find an object to look at in wonder within its vast collection.
A portrait commission, two group shows, and an article
A survey of Everett Raymond Kinstler’s paintings, 1952–2015, on view in Tennessee and Georgia this summer.
The Portsmouth exhibition harvests over seventy of Gertrude Fiske’s paintings from private and public collections. It is a modest venue for an ambitious agenda, namely the revival of an artist whose reputation has languished for the balance of the last century.
Mary Beth McKenzie’s retrospective opens July 13 at the Erie Art Museum.