ewmiller | January 31, 2012
A major exhibition of artwork by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner will premiere at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), on view from January 27 through April 15, 2012. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit will contain over 100 works, including 12 paintings that have never been shown in a Tanner retrospective and the [...]
Lin | January 7, 2012
Situated north of downtown San Antonio along the famous River Walk, the San Antonio Museum of Art is housed in the historic Lone Star Brewery building complex. From the outside, the complex lacks the grandeur of Beaux-Arts facades. Multi-floored, with a subdued sun-fade yellow, the brick buildings give the feeling of a genteel southern living [...]
ewmiller | December 18, 2011
The world we live in is often planned, pondered over and reviewed in our dreams while lying still, or sleeping in bed. Such a bed was placed as a nucleus in the new exhibit at RO2 Gallery in downtown Dallas. Around it hung messages of personal motivation and introspection. From there spun the web of [...]
UAA Team | December 18, 2011
A nude sketch of Lady Gaga by crooner Tony Bennett has gone viral (like much of what Lady Gaga is involved in). The Vancouver Sun reports that the 85-year-old Bennet released the portrait after they recorded “The Lady Is a Tramp.” The original charcoal drawing is being auctioned as a benefit for Gaga’s anti-bullying foundation, Born [...]
Pearl | December 16, 2011
They reflected the superlative power of the artist to synthesize geographic and flora information; yet still there seemed to lack a kind of immediacy and emotional attachment. In a tightly controlled process for public picture making, by reigning subconscious and psychological state, Anne achieved a stunning degree of intellectual revelation of nature observed.
UAA Team | November 7, 2011
A pair of whimsical letters, handwritten and with illustrations by the renowned American artist Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), are expected to be centerpiece lots in an auction slated for Saturday, Nov. 12, by Dirk Soulis Auctions. Both letters were written by Mr. Benton to his parents while he was in his early 20s – one [...]
ewmiller | October 23, 2011
A trip to Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden in North Dallas is always a treat. It was a rush to get there by Saturday at 11:00 in the morning, and by the time we arrived at about 10:58, the parking lot was almost to the over-flowing point. I was actually surprised there weren’t already [...]
UAA Team | October 21, 2011
To mark its 50th Anniversary, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art announces that it has acquired an important painting by Mary Cassatt, Woman Standing, Holding a Fan, created in 1878–79. The work is one of only two known canvases painted by the artist almost entirely in the medium of distemper and represents a key [...]
UAA Team | October 20, 2011
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has acquired the painting Yarrow Mamout, 1819, an exceptionally rare portrait of an African-American by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), one of the most renowned American artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Depicting an aged man who had been born in Guinea in western Africa, taken into slavery [...]
UAA Team | October 20, 2011
The new art show “Fannie Brito: Mixed Emotions,” curated by Ro2 Art Gallery, takes a new venue in the trendy Belmont Hotel. It was a somewhat unusual venue for an art show, but none-the-less the perfect setting for an evening out. Designed by Charles Stevens Dilbeck, a local architect in 1946, the sculpted cliff built [...]
