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Book Review
Mary Cassatt at Work
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1158–1162
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Reviewer:
Pollock, Griselda (Pollock, Griselda)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Cassatt, Mary
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
subjects:
American art / Women artists
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mary Cassatt at Work Edited by Jennifer A. Thompson and Laurel Garber. 304 pp. incl. 240 col. ills. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2024), £45. ISBN 978–0–87633–304–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Maternal caress, by Mary Cassatt. 1896. Oil on canvas, 38.1 by 54 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
2. The bath, by Mary Cassatt. 1890–91. Colour drypoint, aquatint and softground etching, printed à la poupée on paper, 43.6 by 30 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
3. Self-portrait, by Mary Cassatt. c.1880. Gouache, watercolour and graphite on paper, 33.1 by 24.6 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington).
Attributed works:
4. Driving, by Mary Cassatt. 1881. Oil on canvas, 88.8 by 129.8 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Exhibition Review
Medieval Treasures from the Glencairn Museum
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 1011-1013
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Reviewer:
Boeye, Kerry Paul (Boeye, Kerry Paul)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, United States / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
subjects:
Medieval art / French medieval art / Sculpture / Stained glass
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Medieval Treasures from the Glencairn Museum Philadelphia Museum of Art 25th June 2022–Autumn 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. St Peter. Italy (Ravenna?), c.500. Ivory, 14 by 9 cm. (Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, Philadelphia; exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Western art unattributed:
4. Flight into Egypt. French, 1140–44. Stained and painted glass, 52 by 50 cm. (Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, Philadelphia; exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Western art unattributed:
5. Capital from the cloister of Saint-Guilhelmle- Désert. 1175– 1200. Limestone, height 27.9 cm. (Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn, Philadelphia; exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Exhibition Review
Jasper Johns: Mind / Mirror
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 79-81
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Reviewer:
Costello, Eileen (Costello, Eileen)
Subjects
artists:
Johns, Jasper
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
subjects:
American art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Jasper Johns: Mind / Mirror Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Philadelphia Museum of Art 29th September 2021– 13th February 2022 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
29. Fool’s house, by Jasper Johns. 1961–62. Oil, sculp-metal and charcoal on canvas with objects, 182.9 by 91.4 cm. (Private collection; © 2021 Jasper Johns / VAGA at Artists Rights Society, New York; exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
30. Untitled, by Jasper Johns. 2018. Oil on canvas, 128.9 by 86.7 cm. (Private collection; © 2021 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society, New York; courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; exh. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York).
Attributed works:
31. Corpse and mirror II, by Jasper Johns. 1974–75. Oil and sand on four joined canvases, with artist’s painted frame, 146.4 by 191.1 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society, New York; exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Book Review
Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A.
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 480-481
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Reviewer:
Sudhalter, Adrian (Sudhalter, Adrian )
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Arensberg, Walter C. / Arensberg, Louise S.
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
places:
Los Angeles
subjects:
Collections, Private / Collecting / Collectors / Modern art / Modernism / Surrealism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A. By Mark Nelson, William H. Sherman and Ellen Hoobler. 448 pp. incl. 103 col. + 227 b. & w. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2020),  50. ISBN 978–1–60606–666–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Photograph of the dining room at 7065 Hillside Avenue, Los Angeles, showing works by Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp and Paul Klee among others, c.January 1951, by Floyd Faxon. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives, Arensberg Archives).
Book Review
The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770–1850. Edited by John Ittmann
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 881-882
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Reviewer:
Godfrey, Daniel (Godfrey, Daniel)
Subjects
artists:
Quaglio, Domenico II, 1787-1837 / Raphael / Klein, Johann Adam, / Amsler, Samuel / Tischbein, Wilhelm, 1751-1829 / Lips, Johann Heinrich / Olivier, Ferdinand, 1785-1841 / Koch, Joseph Anton / Kolbe, Carl Wilhelm / Neureuther, Eugen Napoleon / Ramboux, Johann Anton
artists:
Hübner, Julius / Kirchner, Johann Jakob / Müller, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm / Schulze, Christian Gottfried / Reinhart, Johann Christian / Kölbl, Anton / Grimm, Ludwig Emil / Sonderland, Johann Baptist / Müller, Johann Gotthard / Klengel, Johann Christian
dates:
1750-1799 / 1800-1849
media:
Prints / Etchings / Engravings / Aquatints
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
places:
United States / Philadelphia / Germany
subjects:
Romanticism / Collecting / Collections / Landscapes (visual works) / Portraits / Self-portraits / Visual sources / Animals / Children / Christian iconography / Printmaking / Printmakers / Nazarene (style) / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Fallen Germania, by Julius Hübner. 1850. Etching in black and gold with white heightening over lithograph in olive green, 21 by 30 cm. (The Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Exhibition Review
Mexican modernism. Paris and Dallas; Philadelphia, Mexico City and Houston
03/2017 | 1368 | 159
Pages: 247-248
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Reviewer:
Sullivan, Edward J. (Sullivan, Edward J.; S., E. J.)
Subjects
artists:
Kahlo, Frida / Rivera, Diego / Orozco, José Clemente
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico / Grand Palais, Paris, France / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, United States
places:
United States / Paris / Philadelphia / Mexico / Mexico City / Houston / Dallas / France
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Mexican painting / Modernism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
78. Self-portrait on the border line between Mexico and the United States, by Frida Kahlo. 1932 (Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico City; exh. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)
Attributed works:
79. Detail of Río Juchitán, by Diego Rivera. 1953-55 (Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, on loan from Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; exh. Grand Palais, Paris, and Dallas Museum of Art)
Attributed works:
80. Optic Parable, by Manuel Alvarez Bravo. 1931 (Philadelphia Museum of Art; exh. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)
Exhibition Review
Paul Strand; international photographers in Britain; Fox Talbot. Philadelphia, Winterthur, Madrid and London
06/2016 | 1359 | 158
Pages: 474-476
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Author:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
artists:
Strand, Paul / Fox Talbot, William Henry
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Photographs
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain / Science Museum, London, Great Britain / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
museums and institutions:
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
places:
Winterthur / Switzerland / Spain / United States / Philadelphia / Madrid / London / England
Illustrations
Attributed works:
59. The family, Luzzara (the Lusettis), by Paul Strand. 1953 negative, mid-to-late 1960s print (Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation, New York; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
60. The happy family, Orgeval, by Paul Strand. 1957 (Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation, New York; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
61. Foyle Road on the day after clashes between Catholics and Protestants in the Battle of Bogside, by Akihiko Okamura. 1969 (Courtesy of the Estate of Akihiko Okamura, Hakodate; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
62. The red sheath, by Tina Barney. 2001 (Paul Kasmin Gallery, London; exh. Barbican Art Gallery, London)
Exhibition Review
International Pop; The World Goes Pop. Dallas, Minneapolis and Philadelphia; London
05/2016 | 1358 | 158
Pages: 400–402
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Reviewer:
Crow, Thomas (Crow, Thomas)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Tate Modern, London, Great Britain / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States / Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States
places:
United States / Philadelphia / Minneapolis / London / England / Dallas
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Pop art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
75. seja marginal, sera herói, by Hélio Oiticica. 1967 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Attributed works:
76. Youth on the building yard, by Cornel Brudașcu. 1970 (Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca, Romania; exh. Tate Modern, London)
Attributed works:
77. Zone, by James Rosenquist. 1960-61 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Book Review
Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392–1910, H. Woo, ed. Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392–1910, B. Jungmann
03/2016 | 1356 | 158
Pages: 208
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Reviewer:
Kim, Rosalie (Kim, Rosalie)
Subjects
dates:
1390-1399 / 1400-1899 / 1900-1909 / 2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, United States
places:
Korea
subjects:
Korean / Art history / Cultural history / Exhibitions / Paintings
subjects:
Joseon Dynasty
Exhibition Review
Autumn exhibitions
01/2015 | 1342 | 157
Pages: 51-53
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Jonathan (Vernon, Jonathan ; V., J.)
Subjects
artists:
Bernard, Emile / Saint Phalle, Niki de / Monet, Claude
collectors and dealers:
Durand-Ruel, Paul
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France / Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France / Musée national de l'Orangerie, Paris, France / Grand Palais, Paris, France / National Gallery, London, Great Britain / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany / Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
places:
United States / Spain / Paris / Philadelphia / London / Germany / France / England / Bilbao / Bremen
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
59. Soleil couchant sur la Seine, effet d'hiver, by Claude Monet (Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris; exh. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris)
Attributed works:
60. Peupliers, trois arbres roses, automne, by Claude Monet (Philadelphia Museum of Art; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris)
Attributed works:
61. Parc à moutons, clair de lune, by Jean-François Millet (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris)
Attributed works:
62. Self-portrait, by Emile Bernard (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest; exh. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris)
Attributed works:
63. Installation view of Niki de Saint Phalle at the Grand Palais, Paris, showing (left) Dolorès; Black Rosy, Ou My Heart belongs to Rosy; and (right) Les trois grâces, by Niki de Saint Phalle
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