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Exhibition Review
Sargent and Spain
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 551-554
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Reviewer:
Dini, Jane (Dini, Jane)
Subjects
artists:
Sargent, John Singer
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, United States
subjects:
Spain / Spanish (people) / American painting (United States of America) / Dance / Music / Genre paintings / Landscapes (visual works) / Architecture / Gardens
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Sargent and Spain Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor 11th February–14th May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. La Carmencita, by John Singer Sargent. 1890. Oil on canvas, 229 by 140 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; exh. Legion of Honor, San Francisco).
Attributed works:
11. Spanish Roma dwelling, by John Singer Sargent. 1912. Oil on canvas, 71.4 by 91.4 cm. (Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover MA; Bridgeman Images; exh. Legion of Honor, San Francisco).
Attributed works:
12. Majorcan fisherman, by John Singer Sargent. 1908. Oil on canvas, 69.9 by 54.6 cm. (Private collection; exh. Legion of Honor, San Francisco).
Exhibition Review
Alice Neel: People Come First
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 628-629
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Reviewer:
Schwabsky, Barry (Schwabsky, Barry)
Subjects
artists:
Neel, Alice
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
American painting (United States of America)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Alice Neel: People Come First Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 22nd March–1st August | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
15. David Bourdon and Gregory Battcock, by Alice Neel. 1970. Oil on canvas, 151.8 by 142.2 cm. (Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
16. Henry Geldzahler, by Alice Neel. 1967. Oil on canvas, 127 by 86 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Jasper Johns: Pictures within Pictures,1980–2015. By Fiona Donovan
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 175-176
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Reviewer:
Costello, Eileen (Costello, Eileen)
Subjects
artists:
Johns, Jasper
dates:
1900-1999 / 1980-1989 / 1990-1999 / 2000-2099 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings
places:
United States
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Monographs / Visual sources / Iconography / Psychology / Critical Reception
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Untitled, by Jasper Johns. 1983–84. Black and coloured ink on plastic, 72.5 by 92.4 cm. (Collection of the artist).
Exhibition Review
Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 158-161
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Reviewer:
Kachur, Lewis (Kachur, Lewis)
Subjects
artists:
Warhol, Andy
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Installations (visual works) / Paintings / Photographs / Screen prints / Prints / Drawings / Sketches / Wallpaper / Videos / Magazine covers / Sculpture
museums and institutions:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Pop art / Design / Graphic design / Television / Illustrations / Politics / LGBT / Portraits / Minimalism / Conceptual art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
25. Installation view of Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Photograph by Ron Amstutz; © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts).
Attributed works:
26. Mao, by Andy Warhol. 1972. Acrylic, silkscreen ink and graphite on linen, 448 by 347 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago;  © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; exh. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).
Attributed works:
27. Christine Jorgenson, by Andy Warhol. 1956. Collaged metal leaf and embossed foil with ink on paper, 32.9 by 40.7 cm. (Sammlung Froehlich, LeinfeldenEchterdingen; © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; exh. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).
Exhibition Review
Charles White: A Retrospective. Museum of Modern Art, New York
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 968-970
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Reviewer:
Hylton, Richard (Hylton, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
White, Charles, 1918-1978 / Marshall, Kerry James
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Prints / Photographs / Book covers / Lithographs
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States / Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States
places:
United States / New York / Chicago / Los Angeles
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Politics / Social history / Social realism / Expressionism / Allegory / Hands (body componenents) / Magazines (periodicals) / Murals / Archives / African Americans / Slavery / Slave trade
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Paul Robeson (Study for Contribution of the negro to democracy in America), by Charles White. 1942–43. Carbon pencil over charcoal, with additions and corrections in white gouache, border in Wolff crayon, on cream drawing board, 63.2 by 48.4 cm. (Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ; © The Charles White Archives; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
23. Awaken from the unknowing, by Charles White. 1961. Compressed brown and grey vine charcoal with scratching out, blending and erasing on cold-pressed illustration board, 78.7 by 142.2 cm. (Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; © The Charles White Archives; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
24. Wanted poster series #17, by Charles White. 1971. Oil wash and pencil on poster board, 152.4 by 76.2 cm. (Flint Institute of Arts, Flint MI; © The Charles White Archives; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Exhibition Review
Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art. Dallas Museum of Art
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 963-965
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Reviewer:
Silberman, Robert (Silberman, Robert; Silberman, Robert B.)
Subjects
art literature:
Friedman, Martin
artists:
Sheeler, Charles / O'Keeffe, Georgia / Demuth, Charles / Murphy, Gerald / Duchamp, Marcel / Schamberg, Morton Livingston / Picabia, Francis / Ault, George / Frankl, Paul / Carter, Clarence Holbrook / Gursky, Andreas / Struth, Thomas / Bourke-White, Margaret
artists:
Driggs, Elsie / Storrs, John Bradley
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Prints / Photographs / Videos / Industrial design / Furniture / Art objects
museums and institutions:
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States
places:
United States / Dallas / Minneapolis
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Precisionism / Machine aesthetic / Digital technology / Cities / Popular culture / Abstract art / Modernism / Surrealism / Landscapes (visual works) / Geometry / Automobiles / Design / Workers
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Watch, by Gerald Murphy. 1925. Canvas, 199.4 by 200.4 cm. (Dallas Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
17. American landscape, by Charles Sheeler. 1930. Canvas, 61 by 78.8 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New York; exh. Dallas Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
18. ‘Skyscraper’ bookcase, by Paul T. Frankl. c.1926. Lacquered wood and brass, 242.6 by 109.2 by 33 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Art; exh. Dallas Museum of Art).
Book Review
Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man. By Alexis L. Boylan
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 884-885
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Reviewer:
Griffin, Randall C. (Griffin, Randall C.)
Subjects
artists:
Bellows, George Wesley / Sloan, John
dates:
1900-1949 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Ashcan School (movement) / Iconography / Iconology / Race / Gender / Workers / Working Class / Feminism / Cities / Popular culture / Realist / Eroticism / Immigration / Studios (work spaces) / Landscapes (visual works) / Portraits / Figure paintings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Men of the docks, by George Bellows. 1912. Canvas, 114.3 by 161.3 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Book Review
The Société des Trois in the Nineteenth Century: The Translocal Artistic Union of Whistler, Fantin-Latour, and Legros. By Melissa Berry
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 803
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Reviewer:
Wilcox, Timothy (Wilcox, Timothy; Wilcox, Tim)
Subjects
artists:
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill / Fantin-Latour, Henri / Legros, Alphonse / Doig, Peter / Delacroix, Eugène / Courbet, Gustave
dates:
1850-1899
media:
Paintings
places:
Great Britain / London / France / Paris
subjects:
French painting / American painting (United States of America) / Globalism / Salons (art exhibitions) / Artists' groups and associations / Travel / Critical Reception / Group portraits / Portraits / Landscapes (visual works) / Identification
Exhibition Review
Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Main Thing. The Lowry, Manchester
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 692-694
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Reviewer:
Parton, John (Parton, John)
Subjects
artists:
Joffe, Chantal / Modersohn-Becker, Paula / Almond, Darren / Finch, Spencer / Gordon, Douglas, b. 1966 / Yayoi Kusama, b. 1929 / Periton, Simon / Rovner, Michael / Shawcross, Conrad, b. 1977 / Wright, Richard, b. 1960
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
The Lowry, Salford, Great Britain / Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / Manchester / London
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Portraits / Self-portraits / Figurative art / Nudes / Gender / Public sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
36. Herb at sixteen, by Chantal Joffe. 2017. Canvas, 100 by 70 cm. (Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London; exh. The Lowry, Manchester).
Attributed works:
37. The squid and the whale II, by Chantal Joffe. 2017. Board, 214 by 152 cm. (Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London; exh. The Lowry, Manchester).
Attributed works:
38. Katherine (eight months), by Chantal Joffe. 2011. Canvas, 152.5 by 91.5 cm. (Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London; exh. The Lowry, Manchester).
Exhibition Review
America’s Cool Modernism:O’Keeffe to Hopper. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 593-595
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Reviewer:
Anfam, David (Anfam, David)
Subjects
artists:
O'Keeffe, Georgia / Hopper, Edward / Demuth, Charles / Davis, Stuart, 1894-1964 / Hartley, Marsden / Steichen, Edward / Abbott, Berenice / Ault, George / cummings, e e / Schamberg, Morton Livingston / Lawrence, Jacob / Bluemner, Oscar / Dove, Arthur Garfield / Lewis, Martin, 1881-1962
artists:
Lozowick, Louis
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / Oxford
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Abstract art / Precisionism / Machine aesthetic / Style / Capitalism / Film (cinema) / Literature
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. New York night, no.2, by George Ault. 1921. Canvas, 51.4 by 35.6 cm. (The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
24. Dawn in Pennsylvania, by Edward Hopper. 1942. Canvas, 61.9 by 112.4 cm. (Terra Collection, Chicago; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
25. Red circle, by Louis Lozowick. 1924. Canvas. 45.7 by 38.1 (The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection; exh. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
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