Cassatt was known for her sensitive depictions of children. Rather than showing them as miniature adults, she painted them as individuals with moods and personalities.
Artists 1830-1930, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, and other venues
In 1632 Anthony van Dyck was invited to England to work at the court of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. In Van Dyck, the royal couple and the English aristocracy found an artist whose gifts perfectly matched their artistic sensitivities as well as their political needs and aspirations.
Kress Collection, four venues, 1994-1995, no. 13, repro.
Thomas Eakins made his career portraying upper-middle class residents of his native Philadelphia. Such depictions are anything but static likenesses;
parks, in its surgical amphitheaters, or in its public and private performance venues
How did impressionism begin? Discover the origins of the French art movement in a new look at the radical 1874 exhibition considered the birth of modern painting.
Other venues Musée d’Orsay, Paris, March 25–July 14, 2024 Sponsors Major support
of the Cook Collection of Primitive and Early Renaissance Paintings (1350-1550); venues
During the late 1930s the aging Marsden Hartley experienced a number of personal and professional reversals that prompted him to return to his native state to reinvent himself as a Maine artist. In September 1937, he settled in Bangor, where he realized a long-standing objective to paint Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest mountain.
Late Works of Marsden Hartley, American Federation of Arts traveling exhibition, 9 venues
Ranuccio Farnese was 11 years old when Titian began to paint his portrait. Adult responsibility came to Ranuccio when he was still a child, as Titian brilliantly conveyed through the cloak of office, too large and heavy, sliding off the boy’s small shoulders.
Kress Collection, four venues, 1994-1995, no. 2, repro.
Completed in February 1911, New York is a large, ambitious painting in which George Bellows captures the essence of modern life in New York City. Although the viewer looks uptown toward Madison Square from the intersection of Broadway and 23rd Street, Bellows did not intend to represent a specific, identifiable place in the city.
Bellows, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, December 1925, no. 5 (travelled to six venues
Walt Kuhn was known for his depictions of many types of circus entertainers, but he was particularly interested in clowns. The White Clown is arguably Kuhn’s most famous painting, and the work that firmly established his reputation at the age of 51.
Clowns, travelling exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 14 venues
Black White and Blue was painted at a critical juncture in Georgia O’Keeffe’s life. In 1929 she began to spend several months of each year in New Mexico, away from both New York and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer and promoter of American modernist painting and photography.
Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz, 6 venues
