An Artist of the "Cool School"
Far too often art history texts sum up the pioneering American avant-garde of the mid-20thcentury with Abstract Expressionism and the New York scene. Believe it or not, there were avant-garde artists ...
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Ode to the "June Bride"
It’s a jaded Art Historian who turns the traditional idea of the “June Bride” sideways. Here are works of art that sort of give a different perspective on the whole subject of weddin ...
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A Realism Backlash?
After the horrors experienced by Europeans in World War I (1914–1918), the brakes were more or less put on to the prevailing trend towards modernism and abstraction, although certainly many arti ...
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Not What You Would Expect!
I really don’t usually go Lady Gaga over the International Style of architecture. However, I was recently scanning some Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM) buildings into our collection, and was ...
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