Some artists are ahead of their time, but some, so to speak, work in parallel. Like others of his generation, the New York painter Leland Bell, who died in 1991, took modernist abstraction as his starting point. But unlike his peers, who turned to new problems, Mr. Bell turned to the human figure for a Read More
The Leland Bell exhibition, which has come to the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries after a yearlong tour of college museums, is not to be missed by anyone with a serious interest in the art of painting. Bell, who died in 1991 at the age of 69, has been a very distinctive figure on the New York art Read More
Abstract Photographs Sexier Than Anything O’Keeffe Did
During his lifetime, Konrad Cramer was known, primarily if not widely, as a painter. Born in Wurtzburg, Germany, in 1888, Cramer emigrated to the United States in 1911, hobnobbed with the Stieglitz circle and was among the first stateside to pursue abstraction. (He died in 1963.) At Read More
For many people in the art world, especially those who come
to the scene straight from their college survey courses, the history of
American painting in the last half of the 20th century goes more or less like
this: In the beginning, there was Abstract Expressionism, otherwise known as
the New York School, followed by Read More
