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Crystal Bridges Announces Tiffany & Co. Exhibition
Crystal Bridges Announces New Tiffany & Co. Exhibition Crystal Bridges and Tif…
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"Red and Orange Streak," Georgia O'Keeffe, 1919.
O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a real pioneer of American modernism. She's best known for her flower paintings, which are almost overfamiliar and the subject of many a joke...but here we've got something different.
O'Keeffe moved to New York from Texas in 1919, and painted this soon after. She wrote that this was inspired by her nostalgia for the Texas plains, especially her fondness for watching lightning storms in the distance.
Here we've got a red band resembling mountains in the distance, and a orange/gold arc that could be lightning....it makes me think of lights in long-exposure photos that stretch into lines. But most say it's simply a creation of a mood, which I can also see.
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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I appreciated the book providing not just a survey of the various federal agencies involved with art, but also an exploration of how these agencies' diverse priorities, institutional constraints, and convictions of their individual administrators could produce bodies of art more heterogeneous than that commonly imagined under the inaccurate label of "WPA art" .
For example, Harry Sternberg's 1939 "The Family, Industry, and Agriculture", a Section of Fine Arts sponsored US Post Office mural, might strike the viewer as typical New Deal Americana....
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I was sitting in an Austin Starbucks last weekend, absorbed in the recently published "New Deal Art: Culture and Crisis in the Great Depression" by John P. Murphy.
"Hello." A smiling man was standing by my table. "I'm the author of the book you're reading."
What a delightful coincidence! We sat together and chatted for a while about the book, the thirties, and the exhibition of American modernist art at the UT Blanton Museum where he was going to be giving a talk.
Even though I was already planning to post a few thoughts on the book, the chance meeting has provided me with additional impetus.
#NewDealArt #AmericanArt #NewDeal #ArtHistory #JohnPMurphy #Coincidence #USHistory #20thCenturyArt #1930s #ChanceMeeting
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Jared French -- Cavalrymen Crossing a River -- 1939.
>> French's central mural for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, is now displayed at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse. "Life" magazine reported that French painted himself into the mural as the figure wearing suspenders.<<
I find it fascinating to see the implicit but powerful eroticism at work in a 1930s New Deal art commission.
Image: By Carol M. Highsmith - Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010719844 -- Wikimedia Commons
#Art #JaredFrench #NewDeal #USArt #AmericanArt #Painting #1930s
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The Wilbur J. Cohen Building in Washington, D.C.—previously the Social Security Building—is architecturally important and notably includes some of the most important New Deal–era murals.
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-wilbur-j-cohen-federal-building-art-and-architecture-saving/
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"Madame X," John Singer Sargent, 1884.
Y'all know Sargent by now.
It's funny that this picture, now sometimes called "the American Mona Lisa," almost ended Sargent's career. He pursued Paris socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wanting to paint her, and it took almost a year to complete. Originally it featured a shoulder strap sliding off her shoulder, which, when combined with the lack of jewelry and gloves, and the gown's plunging neckline, was seen as too sexual and salacious; some thought it hinted at an affair between artist and subject. Not likely, Sargent was a very active gay man.
The New Orleans-born Gautreau was one of the great beauties of Parisian society, and was pursued by several portraitists. Although it's often said her reputation was ruined by this painting; it really wasn't as most of the backlash was directed at Sargent. She did become more choosy about which functions she would attend, and she had several more portraits done, one almost identical to this but was greeted only with praise.
Now it's regarded as one of the great classic works of American art!
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
#Art #JohnSingerSargent #AmericanArt #MadameX #PortraitMonday #Scandalous #WomenInArt
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John James Audubon, Swift Fox #johnjamesaudubon #americanart https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/84202
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A Warmth, A Lightness, A Glow and Then, 1968 #gilliam #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/a-warmth-a-lightness-a-glow-and-then-1968
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John James Audubon, Least Water Hen and Yellow-breasted Rail, 1861 #americanart #johnjamesaudubon https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/171626