By Mario Naves 5/16/05 12:00am

The Drawing Impulse 1900-1950 Yields a High Aesthetic Pleasure

Upon entering The Drawing Impulse in American Art: 1900-1950, an exhibition of works on paper at the Hirschl and Adler Galleries, I was quick to dismiss it as pro forma and predictable, the result not of curatorial necessity but of the gallery’s spring cleaning of its storage racks. Another tasteful array of yesterday’s merchandise: Who Read More

1/20/03 12:00am

When London Ruled, American Painters Adapted to Market

It always comes as something of a surprise to be reminded of how early in our history certain cultural issues and aesthetic impulses came to be defined for the most aspiring American painters. Something like the divisions we associate with a later period-the division, say, between the tough-minded realism of Thomas Eakins and the expatriate Read More