Posted By Geo on July 1, 2009
Transitioning into a first job will inevitably include upgrading an apartment from the décor of college days. “Mantiques” found at an antique show provide a unique opportunity to begin to redesign personal space to compliment a new career.
“Young men living on their own at college aren’t known for their desire or ability to decorate to [...]
Posted By Hui on June 29, 2009
I would agree that the portrait was probably done by one of Henri’s students. The likeliness is so good that either the painter had the access to the model or he had to make a copy out of an original one. But the differernt poses in two paintings suggest that latter is unlikely. Willie was not a professional model, and probably only some of Henri’s students could have access and interest to paint someone who would not be able to afford a portraiture.
Starting from 1902, Robert Henri began to teach at New York School of Art. A bunch of artists went to his studio. Considering that so many of his pupils became well-known, it is worth investigating to know the possible painter of this Wilie Gee portrait. To my surprise, the painting did not sell (based on the preliminary sale results). Maybe the quest for the identifying the real painter of this Willie Gee may keep going.
Read the rest of this entry »Posted By Hui on June 27, 2009
On Saturday night at the reception party of Yinka Shonibare MBE’s exhibition, if someone accidentally walked into the the new Cantor Auditorium of the Brooklyn Museum when the artists arrived, he may have thought he just stumbled upon a play. Yinka stepped onto the stage with the help of two Victorian addressed ladies. Both dressed [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Posted By Geo on June 26, 2009
Nestled between yuppie Park Slope and Crown Heights, a neighborhood with large numbers of both Orthodox Jews and West Africans, the Brooklyn Museum was the setting for the opening of a show that in unique and purposeful ways brought together African and European cultures. Curiously the work also brings cultural clashes that occurred in colonial [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Posted By Hui on June 25, 2009
This morning I was complaining about the release date of the new book “A History of American Tonalism,1880-1920″ by David Cleveland, which was pushed to November from May, then I spotted a unique book about Barbizon school from the Brooklyn Museum Gift Shop in the afternoon. What a coincidence! It was in the special discount [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Posted By Geo on June 25, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House is for sale. Heavily damaged by the 1994 Northridge Earthquake and labled “most endangered” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the house was the last and largest of four homes that Wright designed in an experimental “textile block” style. It was used in a number of films including the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Posted By Geo on June 25, 2009
Like most regions in the American Colonies, Delaware had its own cabinetmakers. Today several museums in the state display examples of furniture produced in Delaware and occasionally new pieces surface at antique shows.
Gary Manlove, owner of Manlove’s Choice Antiques in Greenwood, Delaware has spent time in local museums studying Delaware cabinetmakers and even had the [...]
Posted By Hui on June 23, 2009
Those stories of Antiques Roadshow have never happened to me. The internet has a tremendous power of democratizing information, regardless high-end or bargins for the masses. But the journey of antiquing does not lose its charm from the booming internet platforms or social networking tools. There are just something special about riding in the car on the country [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Posted By Geo on June 22, 2009
One of the favorite stories of the art circles of Philadelphia concerns Philadelphia’s favorite artist, Thomas Eakins, and his being removed from his position at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for removing the loin cloth of a male model in a mixed class.
Even in Philadelphia, Eakins was not the first artist to go to battle over the cloths that hide parts of the human anatomy. An aging Charles Wilson Peale became the city’s first public nude model after several skirmishes and the inability to find a model.
Read the rest of this entry »Posted By Hui on June 21, 2009
Although most of the Hudson River school artists were associated with Hudson River Valley and its surrounding areas and won their fame in New York city, the current exhibition — Public Treasures/Private Visions: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Private Collections at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) [...]
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