Renoir: Everyday Eternity
Gael Mooney reflects on an exhibition of Late Renoir paintings at Hammer Galleries: "The works in this show possess a quiet and intimate beauty that contrasts with the fleeting gaiety of Renoir’s...
View ArticleGustave Caillebotte: A Changing Paris
Susan Stamberg reports on painter Gustave Caillebotte's paintings of Napoleon III's 'modern' Paris. Unlike his contemporaries Stamberg reports that Caillebotte's paintings mourn the loss of the old...
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Renoir & the Force of Delicacy
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg), 1879 (Art Institute of Chicago) Franklin Einspruch reviews the exhibition Renoir, Impressionism, and...
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Berthe Morisot: Pioneering Impressionism
Berthe Morisot, Self-portrait, 1885 © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris / Bridgeman Art / Presse Grégory Picard reviews the Berthe Morisot Retrospective at the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, on view through...
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Renoir's Umbrellas
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Umbrellas, c. 1881 and 1885, Oil on canvas, 71 x 45 inches, The National Gallery, London (photo © The National Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY) John Haber visits the...
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Whistler's Etchings of Suggestion
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Under Old Battersea Bridge, 1876/78, The Julius L. and Anita Zelman Collection Naoko Takahatake blogs about the exhibition Whistler’s Etchings: An Art of Suggestion at...
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Dr. Barnes' Art of Painting
Paul Gauguin, Mr. Loulou (Louis Le Ray), 1890, oil on canvas, 21 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches (© 2012 The Barnes Foundation) On the occasion of the opening of the new Barnes Foundation musuem in Philadelphia,...
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Renoir Paints a Picture
Video screen capture of Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting in his studio in 1915 Katherine Luer blogs about Pierre-Auguste Renoir's extraordinary drive to paint late in life and posts a video of Renoir...
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Turner, Monet, Twombly @ the Tate
Joseph Mallord William Turner, St Benedetto looking towards Fusina, oil paint on canvas (Tate Gallery) Painter Gary Wragg records his impressions of the recent exhibition Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later...
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Mary Cassatt: Transient States
Mary Cassatt, Woman Seated in a Loge, ca. 1881, Lithograph State: i/ii, Samuel Putnam Avery Collection (image courtesy of the New York Public Library) Barry Schwabsky reviews the exhibition Daring...
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Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity
Claude Monet, Camille, 1866, oil on canvas, 90 15/16 x 59 1/2 inches (Kunsthalle Bremen, Der Kunstverein in Bremen) John Goodrich reviews the recent exhibition Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity at...
View ArticleJustice to Pissarro
Editor's Note: Painting is a conversation, and talking about the future always involves new ways of discussing the past. As inspired by our canonized masters as we may be, we must recognize when their...
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Edgar Degas: For and Against Method
Edgar Degas, Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey, 1866, reworked 1880-1881 and c. 1897, oil on canvas, 70 7/8 x 59 13/16 inches (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) Barry Schwabsky...
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Why the Impressionists Still Matter
Claude Monet, The Seine at Argenteuil (La Seine á Argenteuil), 1874, Private Collection (courtesy of the Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Jed Perl reviews the exhibition...
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Pissarro @ Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Camille Pissarro, La Côte des Boeufs, L'Hermitage, 1877 (The National Gallery, London, Presented by C.S. Carstairs to the Tate Gallery through The Art Fund, 1926; transferred, 1950) Xico Greenwald...
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Degas, Renoir & Poetic Pastels
Edgar Degas, Three Dancers In Yellow Skirts, 1900 Emil Robinson reviews the exhibition Degas, Renoir, and Poetic Pastels at the Cincinnati Art Museum, on view through January 19, 2014. Robinson writes...
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Whistler's Battles
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket, 1875, oil on canvas, 23.7 in × 18.3 inches (Detroit Institute of Arts) Barry Schwabsky reviews the new book Whistler: A...
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Degas/Cassatt: Mutual Influence
Mary Cassatt, The Loge, ca. 1878-80, oil on canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) Stephanie Strasnick previews the upcoming exhibition Degas/Cassatt at The National Gallery of Art,...
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Cézanne: Modern Impossibility
Paul Cézanne, Cistern in the Park of Château Noir, 1895 (courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) Julian Bell reviews the exhibition Cézanne and the Modern at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, on view...
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