(via Finding Refuge in Wyeth’s Windows)
Over the course of his career, the 20th century American artist Andrew Wyeth created 300 drawings and paintings of windows that are more about the people looking out them than the views they depict. Sixty of these meticulously crafted studies are on view through the end of November in the National Gallery of Art’s Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In — the first show ever exclusively devoted to them.
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(via Met Envy Apparently Fueled National Gallery of Art’s Interest in Corcoran)
Buried in a Washington Post story about the court appearance of philanthropist Wayne Reynolds, a benefactor to the Corcoran Gallery opposed to its planned integration with the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University, is this gem (emphasis added):
Single Point Perspective: Dürer’s Doomed Knight
Albrecht Dürer, “Knight, Death and Devil” (1513). Engraving, overall: 9 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches.…
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On its own, a painting by Joachim Wtewael can seem like a two-dimensional manifestation of an absurdly complex gâteau — gorgeous, delicious, but perhaps best taken in in small servings. Gathered together in critical mass in the exhibition, Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael (Utrecht, Centraal Museum, traveling this year to Washington, DC and Houston, Texas), however, the paintings’ immaculate surfaces and fervid sensuality make an intoxicating but satisfying meal.
Sexy, Satin Surfaces: Paintings from the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age
Dürer in DC: Some Observations on the Great Observer
Albrecht Dürer, “Head of an Apostle Looking Up” (1508). Brush and gray and black ink, gray wash,…
Shock of the Old: The Pre-Raphaelites Go Back to the Future
Henry Wallis, “Chatterton” (c. 1855–56), oil on canvas, 62.2 x 93.3 cm (24 ½ x 36 ¾ in), Tate…
Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them. With its array of artworks capturing these effects or otherwise engaging with the hours of darkness, Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, mines a narrow but persistent vein in art history.
Artists of the Dark: “Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860–1960”
Tours to Be Offered at Wyeth’s Art Studio
Starting July 3, the studio will be open to the public for a handful of tours each day. Shuttle buses will transport a maximum of 14 people for the short ride from the museum to the studio for each tour. Timed tickets go on sale June 1. >>
There is a lovely remembrance of Andrew Wyeth on Sam Torode Book Arts.
Image caption: Andrew Wyeth, “Christina’s World” (1948) via Michael Chernoff
