by wpengine | Apr 28, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Tori Champion, University of St. Andrews Fig. 1: Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, Umbella Corallina, punctata, similis, 82 / Alcyonium pingue complanatum, exilius cano pullulans, 152 / Alcyonium forma Pyri Estne Pyrum marinum Aldrovandi, C. B. Pin. 127 /...
by wpengine | Jan 18, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Mary Creed Fig. 1. Marie Laurencin, Self-Portrait, 1906. Colored pencil and pencil on notebook paper. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris In an attempt to tell a more inclusive story of modern art,...
by wpengine | Dec 1, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Suzanne Singletary, Professor and Associate Dean, Thomas Jefferson University On view at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation until January 9, Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, and Rebel is the first major retrospective in North America of the...
by wpengine | Nov 13, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Tori Champion, PhD Candidate, University of St. Andrews Alexander Roslin, Madame Marie-Thérèse Reboul Vien, 1757. Oil on canvas. Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. It was a mid-winter’s gathering of friends in Paris, late in...
by wpengine | Sep 9, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Mary Creed, The Morgan Library & Museum Fig. 1. Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1727. Pastel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Painter of the King’s Garden This week—September 6, specifically—marks the 241st anniversary of the...