Before there was a New York School or an Artists’ Club, and before anyone above 14th Street had ever heard of the Cedar Tavern, there was the Jane Street Gallery in Greenwich Village, where a group of young, unknown painters-among them, Nell Blaine, Hyde Solomon, Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Albert Kresch and Judith Rothschild-established a Read More
In 1998, the Tibor de Nagy Gallery presented Will Barnet: The Abstract Work, an exhibition highlighting a little-seen group of pictures by a painter known primarily for his figurative work. What made it an important show was not only the exceptional character of Mr. Barnet’s accomplishment, but how that accomplishment made plain the narrow manner Read More
All artistic reputations are mutable, subject as they are to the shifting winds of fashion and ideology, yet almost no other major reputation in the art of this century has proved to be as vulnerable to the vagaries of critical opinion as that of Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). Even to regard Bonnard’s as a “major” reputation Read More
