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Article
Hope in time of war: George Clausen’s ‘Renaissance’ rediscovered
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 938-945
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Author:
McConkey, Kenneth (McConkey, Kenneth)
Subjects
artists:
Clausen, George / Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre / Wollen, William Barnes / Jack, Richard / Mostyn, Thomas Edwin / Olivier, Herbert Arnould / Lavery, John / Brangwyn, Frank / Sickert, Walter / Orpen, William
artists:
Rousseau, Victor
dates:
1900-1949 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain / The Imperial Arts League, London, Great Britain / New English Art Club (NEAC)
places:
Belgium / Great Britain / London
subjects:
British painting / World War (1914-1918) / Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) / War / Soldiers / Ruins / Damage to works of art / Lost works / Art criticism / Criticism / Critical Reception / Exhibitions / Exhibition reviews / Influence / Identification / Sitters / Allegory / Allegorical figures / Symbolism (artistic concept) / Colour / Style / Neo-classicism / Realism / Murals / Figure paintings / Portraits / Landscapes (visual works) / Flower pieces / Workers / Nudes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Renaissance, by George Clausen. 1915. Canvas, 152.4 by 177.8 cm. (Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on deposit in the Belgian ambassador’s residence, London).
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.1.
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11. Figure study, by George Clausen. 1914–15. Graphite on paper, 24 by 39 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
12. Youth mourning, by George Clausen. 1916. Canvas, 91.4 by 91.4 cm. (Imperial War Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Primavera, by George Clausen. 1914. Canvas, 91.4 by 71.7 cm. (Private collection; photo Christie’s, London).
Attributed works:
3. Wounded, London Hospital, by John Lavery. 1915. Canvas, 176 by 201 cm. (Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection).
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4. Study for ‘Renaissance’, by George Clausen. 1915. Graphite on paper, 25.7 by 18.4 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
5. Study for ‘Renaissance’, by George Clausen. 1915. Graphite on paper, 38.1 by 32.3 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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6. L’Esperance, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. 1872. Canvas, 70.5 by 82 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
7. Sowing new seed (for the Board of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland), by William Orpen. 1913. Canvas, 137 by 137 cm. (Mildura Arts Centre, Australia).
Attributed works:
8. St Francis at prayer, by Frederick Cayley Robinson and Winifred Dalley, from H.E. Manning: The Little Flowers of St Francis of Asissi, London 1915.
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Victor Rousseau, by George Clausen, c.1915. Graphite on paper, 39.2 by 28.8 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Exhibition Review
Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing. Jeu de Paume, Paris
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 965-968
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Reviewer:
Constantine, Simon (Constantine, Simon)
Subjects
artists:
Lange, Dorothea / White, Clarence Hudson / Dixon, Maynard / Cunningham, Imogen / Van Dyke, Willard Ames / Weston, Edward / Adams, Ansel
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Photographs
museums and institutions:
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain / Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
places:
Great Britain / London / France / Paris
subjects:
Photography / Photomechanical processes / Portraits / Style / War Artists / World War (1939-1945) / Race / Workers / Working Class / African Americans
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. Migrant mother, Nipomo, California, by Dorothea Lange. 1936. Gelatin silver print, 33.3 by 25.5 cm. (Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).
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20. Sacramento, California. College students of Japanese ancestry who have been evacuated from Sacramento to the Assembly Center, by Dorothea Lange. 1942. Digital print, 27.9 by 22.9 cm. (Courtesy U.S. National Archives; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).
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21. White angel breadline, San Francisco, by Dorothea Lange. 1933. Gelatin silver print, 53.3 by 43.8 cm. (Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).
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).
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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
Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908–1940. By John Lear
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 706-707
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Reviewer:
Sullivan, Edward J. (Sullivan, Edward J.; S., E. J.)
Subjects
artists:
Posada, José Guadalupe / Rivera, Diego / Orozco, José Clemente / Charlot, Jean / Guerrero, Xavier / Leal, Fernando / Modotti, Tina / Alvarez Bravo, Manuel / Siqueiros, David Alfaro
dates:
1900-1949
media:
Paintings / Prints / Woodcuts / Photographs
places:
Mexico
subjects:
Mexican painting / Murals / Iconography / Working Class / Workers / Politics / Communism / Newspapers / Satire / Caricatures / Gender / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
9. Detail of The worker’s struggle against monopolies, by Pablo O’Higgins. 1934. Fresco. (Mercado Abelardo Rodriguez, Mexico City; photograph John Lear).
Book Review
Painting Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850–1900, J. Morrison
03/2016 | 1356 | 158
Pages: 208-209
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Reviewer:
Barringer, Tim (Barringer, Tim)
Subjects
dates:
1850-1899
places:
Europe / Scotland
subjects:
Visual culture / Scottish painting / Workers / Victorian / Poor
Illustrations
Attributed works:
56. A hind's daughter, by James Guthrie. 1883 (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh)
Book Review
Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain.
09/2005 | 1230 | 147
Pages: 624
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Reviewer:
Funnell, Peter (Funnell, Peter)
Subjects
artists:
Brown, Ford Madox / Linnell, John, painter, 1792-1882
artists:
Cole, George Vicat
dates:
1850-1899
print:
Victorian art
subjects:
Victorian / Workers
subjects:
British painting / Urban history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain. | author: Barringer, Tim
Article
The Drawings of Jean-François Millet in the Collection of the Late Mr. James Staats Forbes: Part III
12/1904 | 21 | 6
Pages: 192-193+196-199+202-203
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Author:
Cartwright, Julia (Cartwright, Julia; Ady Cartwright, Julia)
Subjects
artists:
Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875
collectors and dealers:
Forbes, James Staats
dates:
1800-1899
media:
Drawings
places:
France
subjects:
Collections, Private / Sketches / Iconography / Families / Workers / Domesticity / Landscapes (visual works)
subjects:
French painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
La Leçon de Tricot. Drawings by J. F. Millet, in the Collection of the Late Mr. J. Staats Forbes. Plate II.
Attributed works:
La Porteuse D'eau. Drawings by J. F. Millet, in the Collection of the Late Mr. J. Staats Forbes. Plate IV.
Attributed works:
La Sortie. Drawings by J. F. Millet, in the Collection of the Late Mr. J. Staats Forbes. Plate I.
Attributed works:
La Tricoteuse. Drawings by J. F. Millet, in the Collection of the Late Mr. J. Staats Forbes. Plate III.
Attributed works:
Le Mendiant. Drawings by J. F. Millet, in the Collection of the Late Mr. J. Staats Forbes. Plate III.
Attributed works:
Le Retour. Drawings by J. F. Millet, in the Collection of the Late Mr. J. Staats Forbes. Plate I.
Attributed works:
L'Enfant Malade. Drawings by J. F. Millet, in the Collection of the Late Mr. J. Staats Forbes. Plate II.
Attributed works:
Millet's House at Barbizon. Drawings by J. F. Millet, in the Collection of the Late Mr. J. Staats Forbes. Plate IV.