Pierre Bonnard

Big Dealer: Sharp-Eyed Patron Pushed the Paris Avant-Garde

Anyone extolling the virtues of Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, at  read more »

Big Dealer: Sharp-Eyed Patron Pushed the Paris Avant-Garde

En garde! Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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En garde! Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Anyone extolling the virtues of Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Gar  read more »

Overdue Retrospective Speaks Friedman's Harsh Language

The American painter Arnold Friedman (1874-1946) once groused about the “cadging—pettifogging [a  read more »

Overdue Retrospective Speaks Friedman’s Harsh Language

Arnold Friedman
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Arnold Friedman

The American painter Arnold Friedman (1874-1946) once groused about the “cadging—pettifo  read more »

A Gentle Times Critic Goes On a Grand Tour

There are few things more humiliating than crying in Chicago.  read more »

Rothko's Progress Toward Abstraction Focuses on 1949

Among the many exhibitions of Mark Rothko's paintings I have seen over the course of many years-and  read more »

Pierre Bonnard, Returns In Triumph To D.C. Museum

There was a time, in the early decades of the last century, when the newly created museums devoted t  read more »

Pierre Bonnard at MoMA: O.K. to Like Him Again?

All artistic reputations are mutable, subject as they are to the shifting winds of fashion and ideol  read more »