March 5th, 2012 
ewmiller 
It may not have been the first choice for a major work by Thomas Eakins to adorn the walls of the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. That of course was The Gross Clinic which shows Dr.Samuel D. Gross, a seventy-year-old professor dressed in a black frock coat, as he lectures a group of Jefferson [...]
February 27th, 2012 ewmiller 
The Crystal Bridges Museum of Art is more than I expected. While I expected to see great things, the assemblage of American Art is an outstanding achievement. Many of the paintings that line the walls of the Moshe Safdie-designed buildings are exceptional examples of works both of the period, and of the particular artist. That’s [...]
Posted in Art, Museum 
Tags: Arkansas, Asher B. Durand, Crystal Bridges, Kindred Spirits, Moshe Safdie 
No Comments » February 24th, 2012 UAA Team 
One of the most instantly recognizable images in both art history and popular culture, perhaps second only to the Mona Lisa, will his the auction block at Sotheby’s in New York on May 2. The present version of The Scream dates from 1895, and is one of four versions of the composition, and the only [...]
Posted in Artist, Auction, Museum Tags: Auction, Germany, Hitler, Munch, National Gallery, Norway, Sothebys Thomas Olsen, Tate, The Scream No Comments » February 22nd, 2012 UAA Team 
In January the Musée du Louvre in Paris opened “New Frontier: Thomas Cole and the Birth of Landscape Painting in America.” The exhibition is the first of a four-year collaboration devoted to American Art, with the Louvre, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Arkansas), and the Terra Foundation for [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Museum Tags: Catskill, Guillaume Faroult, Hudson River, Louvre, Paris, Thomas Cole No Comments » February 20th, 2012 UAA Team 
Coinciding with Winterthur’s reopening this spring, the museum will host the 11th annual Sewell C. Biggs Winterthur Furniture Forum, Furniture in the South: Makers & Consumers, on March 1 and 2. An array of scholars and specialists, including distinguished curators from Winterthur, will lead two days of fascinating lectures and workshops focusing on southern regional [...]
February 16th, 2012 UAA Team 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired one of only 16 known casts of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Abraham Lincoln, the Man (Standing Lincoln), a rare, authorized reduction of the large bronze monument that the sculptor originally created for Lincoln Park in Chicago between 1884 and 1887. The Met’s 40-1/2-inch-high bronze statuette was one of a limited [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Museum Tags: Augustus Saint Gaudens, Chicago, Clara Stone Hay, Gorham, Lincoln, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tiffany Studios, William McKinley No Comments » February 15th, 2012 Hui 
A Sunday trip to the Birmingham Museum of Art doesn’t provide enough time to cover its comprehensive collection, especially its Vietnamese ceramics exhibition, one of the finest in the world, and its Wedgewood collection, the largest outside England. Fortunately, the American Art and Decorative Art collection is substantial, yet not overwhelming. Paintings are largely organized [...]
February 15th, 2012 UAA Team 
The Metropolitan Museum’s Fifth Avenue Plaza and Fountains are going to get a re-do. OLIN, a leading landscape architecture, urban design and planning studio, was chosen for the project. The plans were unveiled at a presentation at the Museum on February 7, 2012. Once all the necessary approvals for the project are in place, construction [...]
February 13th, 2012 UAA Team 
Exquisite in craftsmanship, unique in detail, and few in number, lover’s eye miniatures are small-scale portraits of individual eyes set into various forms of jewelry from late 18th- and early 19th-century England. Featuring an impressive 98 pieces, the collection currently on view in Birmingham, Alabama is considered to be the largest of its kind, with [...]
Posted in Art, Fashion, Jewelry, Museum Tags: Birmingham Museum of Art, Look of Love, Nan and David Skier No Comments » February 10th, 2012 ewmiller 
Looking through the Western Galleries at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, many visitors compare the work of Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell. Quite often the conclusion is something like Remington was a better painter, but Russell knew the frontier better. When making these assessments, for the most part we’re looking [...]
