The painter Don Joint is in love—in love, that is, with marble. Mr. Joint’s recent efforts in oil, on display at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, are the result of a chance encounter with a still-life painted on marble by the 18th-century Dutch artist Gerard van Spaendonck. Attracted to the tactile qualities of white marble—its Read More
The French painter Jean Hélion (1904-1987), whose work is the focus of a compelling exhibition at the National Academy Museum, was a man of strong moral and intellectual passions—so strong, indeed, that when he changed the course of his art, turning to a highly charged realist style after achieving great distinction as an abstractionist, it Read More
He is “the sort of genius that
communities usually massacre and then afterward revere,” wrote the great
American art critic Henry McBride of the
fine American painter Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), whose watercolors and
drawings are the subject of an exhibition at Kennedy Galleries. McBride’s
statement has to it a mock-dramatic flourish that is typical Read More
