Morse Museum, Winter Park, FL, part 3
Detail of Maxfield Parrish, The Dinky Bird, 1904. Morse Museum, Winter Park.

Morse Museum, Winter Park, FL, part 3

Who’d have expected that the world’s best collection of stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) would be within an hour of Disney World? I first visited the Morse in…

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Historical Monument of the American Republic
Erastus Salisbury Field, Historical Monument of the American Republic, 1867-1888. Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA.

Historical Monument of the American Republic

In my weekly email of Sunday Recommendations, I promise "art-related suggestions meant to  inspire, to provoke wonder or thought, or simply to amaze by sheer beauty." The Historical Monument of…

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Visiting the Wadsworth Atheneum, part 20
Hubert Robert, Jean-Antoine Roucher in Prison, ca. 1797. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Visiting the Wadsworth Atheneum, part 20

My previous post on the Wadsworth Atheneum included Rococo porcelain from France and Germany, created in the mid-eighteenth century. This week we move on to works of the French Revolution,…

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The “Enchanted” Exhibition at the Rockwell Museum, part 2
Jeff Easley (American, b. 1954), The Big Red Dragon, 1991. Oil on illustration board. Enchanted exhibition, Rockwell Museum.

The “Enchanted” Exhibition at the Rockwell Museum, part 2

From June 12 to October 31, 2021, the Norman Rockwell Museum has on display “Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration.” The exhibition includes between 100 and 200 works, filling four rooms.…

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The “Enchanted” Exhibition at the Rockwell Museum, part 1
Michael Whelan (American, b. 1950), The Way of Kings, 2010. Acrylic on canvas. Rockwell Museum, Enchanted exhibition.

The “Enchanted” Exhibition at the Rockwell Museum, part 1

From June 12 to October 31, 2021, the Norman Rockwell Museum has on display "Enchanted: A History of Fantasy Illustration." The exhibition includes between 100 and 200 works, filling four…

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Some illustrations for Amor Towles’s “The DiDomenico Fragment”
Studiolo, created ca. 1478-1482 for the Duke's Palace in Gubbio. Metropolitan Museum, New York. Photo: MetMuseum.org

Some illustrations for Amor Towles’s “The DiDomenico Fragment”

Amor Towles, author of Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow (both of which I enjoyed) recently released "The DiDomenico Fragment." A fictional Renaissance painting gives the novella its…

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Visiting the Wadsworth Atheneum, part 19
Boucher / Vincennes Porcelain Factory, The Music Lesson, ca. 1752. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Visiting the Wadsworth Atheneum, part 19

This week: Rococo at the Wadsworth. For previous posts on the Wadsworth, click here. Giuseppe Nogari, Self-Portrait Giuseppe Nogari, Self-Portrait. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Nogari (1699-1766), a native of Venice, painted works…

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Visiting the Wadsworth Atheneum, part 18
Johann Joachim Kaendler (creator of model for the Meissen Porcelain Factory), Busts of two monks, 1743. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Visiting the Wadsworth Atheneum, part 18

This week: Baroque and Rococo art at the Wadsworth. For previous posts on the Wadsworth, click here. Hals, Portrait of Joseph Coymans, 1644 Frans Hals, Portrait of Joseph Coymans, 1644. Wadsworth…

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Visiting the Wadsworth Atheneum, part 17
William Claesz. Heda, Still Life with Goblet, 1631. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.

Visiting the Wadsworth Atheneum, part 17

This week: more seventeenth-century (Baroque) art at the Wadsworth. For previous posts on the Wadsworth, click here. Le Sueur, Young Man with a Sword, ca. 1645 Eustache Le Sueur, Young Man…

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