http://www.urbanartantiques.com antiques and art news, views and commentary Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:17:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/pafa-henry-ossawa-tanner/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/pafa-henry-ossawa-tanner/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:55:23 +0000 ewmiller http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=9055 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/pafa-henry-ossawa-tanner/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/san-antonio-museum-of-art-american-art-portrait/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/san-antonio-museum-of-art-american-art-portrait/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:14:28 +0000 Lin http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8965 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2012/san-antonio-museum-of-art-american-art-portrait/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/sometimes-these-things-happen-the-buzz-about-grindr-art-r-mateo-diago-at-ro2/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/sometimes-these-things-happen-the-buzz-about-grindr-art-r-mateo-diago-at-ro2/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:12:59 +0000 ewmiller http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8800 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/sometimes-these-things-happen-the-buzz-about-grindr-art-r-mateo-diago-at-ro2/feed/ 1 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/nude-life-sketch-of-lady-gaga-by-tony-bennett-on-ebay/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/nude-life-sketch-of-lady-gaga-by-tony-bennett-on-ebay/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:30:02 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8797 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/nude-life-sketch-of-lady-gaga-by-tony-bennett-on-ebay/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/nature-observed-the-coastal-california-pines-of-anne-c-weary/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/nature-observed-the-coastal-california-pines-of-anne-c-weary/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:42:11 +0000 Pearl http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8724 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.]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/nature-observed-the-coastal-california-pines-of-anne-c-weary/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/pair-of-letters-by-benton-to-be-auctioned/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/pair-of-letters-by-benton-to-be-auctioned/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:16:46 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8552 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/pair-of-letters-by-benton-to-be-auctioned/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/jim-woodson-at-valley-house/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/jim-woodson-at-valley-house/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:54:11 +0000 ewmiller http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8503 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/jim-woodson-at-valley-house/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/amon-carter-announces-acquisition-mary-cassatt-painting/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/amon-carter-announces-acquisition-mary-cassatt-painting/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:06:29 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8483 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/amon-carter-announces-acquisition-mary-cassatt-painting/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/philadelphia-museum-of-art-acquires-exceptionally-rare-early-19th-century-portrait-of-an-african-american-by-charles-willson-peale/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/philadelphia-museum-of-art-acquires-exceptionally-rare-early-19th-century-portrait-of-an-african-american-by-charles-willson-peale/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:49:01 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8478 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/philadelphia-museum-of-art-acquires-exceptionally-rare-early-19th-century-portrait-of-an-african-american-by-charles-willson-peale/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/the-belmont-hotel-and-whats-not-on-the-canvas/ http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/the-belmont-hotel-and-whats-not-on-the-canvas/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:26:49 +0000 UAA Team http://www.urbanartantiques.com/?p=8466 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 [...]]]> http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2011/the-belmont-hotel-and-whats-not-on-the-canvas/feed/ 0