A Vision in Vermillion
Or scarlet, as the case may be. I’m reading Jane Kamensky’s “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley,” and just 56 pag...
Tag: american art history
High Style/Low Brow
It’s auction season again, the best one of all: the major Americana sales and the Winter Antiques Show in New York. I won’t be at any of the exhibit...
Families and Hatters: more sale portraits
Another lot from the Sotheby’s American Folk Art sale is this pair of paintings by Jacob Maentel. (There’s an entire series of paintings by Maentel,...
What Pinterest Can Do, or, Asher Durand
At the Brandywine River Museum, I saw an Asher B. Durand landscape and said, “I haven’t thought about Asher Durand in a long time.” My mother,...
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