American Art Elsewhere

Piece 'a Cake

November 19, 2010

Wayne Thiebaud's Untitled It's Wayne Thiebaud's 90th birthday. So, let's break out the cake and the party favors and celebrate a favorite artist, whose depictions of cakes and other yummy delights, have dazzled us for decades. And for a little...

Critic Mark Feeney on William Eggleston

November 5, 2010

William Eggleston's Tricycle (Memphis), © Eggleston Artistic Trust, Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York Boston Globe photography and arts critic, Mark Feeney, presented his lecture "Four Photographers on Three Wheels: William Eggleston's Tricycle and Before" at American Art's McEvoy Auditorium...

Erica Hirshler: Looking at John Singer Sargent

September 30, 2010

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit; 1882; Oil on canvas; 221.93 x 222.57 cm (87 3/8 x 87 5/8 in.); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Gift of Mary Louisa Boit, Julia Overing Boit, Jane Hubbard Boit, and Florence D. Boit...

George Washington Wearing a Toga?

July 29, 2010

Horotio Greenough’s statue of George Washington on the Capitol grounds (photographer and date unknown) is from the American Sculpture Photograph Study Collection, Photograph Archives (S0001154). Before construction began in 1884 on the world's tallest stone structure, the Washington Monument, commemorating...

Gaman and the Story of Isamu Noguchi

June 22, 2010

Isamu Noguchi, Interned at Poston, Arizona, Bust of Ginger Rogers, Pink Georgia marble, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, © Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc., New York. Of all the stories of internees in the relocation camps for Japanese Americans during World...