One Work/One Artist
Category: Visual Shorts
Welcome Doctor!
The Fine Arts Department is happy to announce the display of a Spanish painting, circa 1680, of Teresa of Avila, one of the Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church. The painting is a part of […]
Curiously Collecting Art
Some years ago, while visiting the home of an older art collector to view his small but beautiful collection of 18th century Northern European landscape paintings, I became curious about his motivation to collect art. […]
Riedenharty
Five American newspapers reported the circumstances surrounding the passing of H. Victor Riedenharty in New York City on September 11, 1908. Though brief, the September 12th editions of the New York Times, the New-York Tribune, […]
Lil
Lillian Lamden knew the power of sculpture. She was intimate with form in space. Materially, Lil was equally comfortable in wood, metal, wire, or wax, and knew, in each, the power of line to define […]
The Dinner Horn
After almost a year in France, following his experience as an artist correspondent for Harper’s Weekly during the American Civil War (1861-1865), Winslow Homer returned to New York to begin a series of paintings and […]
The Unintended Curator 