An Art Deco Masterpiece for Eleanor Roosevelt
Designed by Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906-2008); produced by Cowan Pottery Studio (Rocky River, Ohio, active 1912-1931). Engobed and glazed ceramic, with sgraffito design. Collection of the...
View ArticleIs a “Garden” the World’s Greatest New Artwork?
The Anamorphose. Courtesy of Flickr user groume What’s the best new work of art in the world? Good question. The most interesting and mind-bending new artwork that I’ve encountered is a remarkable...
View ArticleGo Behind the Red Barn and Rediscover Dale Nichols
Dale Nichols, Platte Valley Summer, 1969 oil on canvas, 30 x 40, Central Community College, Columbus, NE. Image courtesy of Georgia Museum of Art. One of the most provocative exhibitions in the United...
View ArticleThe Case for a New Grant Wood Painting
Art © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Keichel Fine Art in Lincoln, Nebraska is currently exhibiting a fascinating mystery picture,...
View ArticleFuturism Is Still Influential, Despite Its Dark Side
Armored Train in Action (1915) by Gino Severini. Italian Futurist paintings adopted a Cubist visual vocabulary but were bolder and brasher. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by...
View ArticleQuestions About Apollo
Detail of the Cleveland Apollo Sauroktonos. Image courtesy of Flickr user ancientartpodcast.org It’s not every day that a work by Praxiteles, one of the most famous sculptors of ancient Greece, shows...
View ArticleWhat a Physics Student Can Teach Us About How Visitors Walk Through a Museum
A diagram of visitor movement in the American Art and Furniture gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Drawings by Andrew Oriani What happens when we walk through a museum? In a class I’m teaching on...
View ArticleWhere Did Jackson Pollock Get His Ideas?
Ross Braught, a largely forgotten artist who surely knew Jackson Pollock, painted the mural Mnemosyne and the Four Muses for the Kansas City Music Hall. Image from Phaeton. One of the more surprising...
View ArticleSharing Pork Chops With Jackson Pollock
Pollock’s studio in East Hampton, New York, is now the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. Credit: Helen Harrison Not many people alive today remember Jackson Pollock, or can say they visited him...
View ArticleA Serious Look at Funny Faces
In portraying King Louis-Philippe as a pear in 1834 in The Past, The Present, The Future, Daumier alluded to the French monarch's head shape, his initials and a play on words. Image courtesy of the...
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