The Sights of Silence: Morandi's Enigmatic Vision

The exhibition devoted to the Italian Modernist painter Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), on display at Paul Thiebaud Gallery, doesn’t contain much: six paintings and two drawings.

It’s appropriate, in a way. Morandi spent his maturity painting not much: boxes and bottles, a landscape here and there, few things in abundance. Even so, is a less-is-more Read More

The Sights of Silence: Morandi’s Enigmatic Vision

The exhibition devoted to the Italian Modernist painter Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), on display at Paul Thiebaud Gallery, doesn’t contain much: six paintings and two drawings.

It’s appropriate, in a way. Morandi spent his maturity painting not much: boxes and bottles, a landscape here and there, few things in abundance. Even so, is a less-is-more curatorial Read More

Give a Painter His Due: Inness Deserves Top Honors

What standing does the landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894) have in the history of American art? As a student, I remember Inness occupying a marginal nook, his place obscured by the homegrown transcendentalism of the Hudson River School and by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the holy trinity of 19th-century American painting. Read More

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What standing does the landscape Give a Painter His Due:

Inness Deserves Top Honorspainter George Inness (1825-1894) have in the history of American art? As a student, I remember Inness occupying a marginal nook, his place obscured by the homegrown transcendentalism of the Hudson River School and by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham Read More