American 20-21st Century Representational Art
Resource Library articles and essays published in 2005
(above: Max Weber, Joel's Cafe, c. 1909-10, oil on canvas, 22 x 27 inches, Joel's Bohemia in Manhattan. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
In Review: What's in
A Title, book review by Scott R. Ferris (12/1/05)
Masters of American Comics (11/21/05)
Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris (11/21/05)
Louis Bosa: A Keen Eye and a Kind Heart (10/26/05)
Cultural Reflections: Inuit Art from the Collection of the Dennos Museum Center (10/25/05)
Villa America: American Moderns, 19001950 (8/31/05)
Marsden Hartley: American Modern (8/30/05)
Warhol Legacy: Selections from The Andy Warhol Museum (8/22/05)
In Review: The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonné, essay by Scott R. Ferris (8/18/05)
My America: Art from The Jewish Museum Collection, 1900-1955 (8/11/05)
The Paintings of Pieter J. L. van Veen; essay by Allan J. Kollar (8/10/05)
The Fred W. Noyes, Jr. Centennial; articles by A. M. Weaver and Judith M. Courter (8/10/05)
Lynn Trank Memorial Exhibition (8/6/05)
Art in 2 Worlds: The Native American Fine Art Invitational (8/2/05)
Reginald Marsh, U.S. Custom House Murals: Reframed and Reseen; article by Lisa Leavitt (7/29/05)
The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (7/27/05)
Barbara and Peter Moore Fluxus Collection Acquired by Harvard University Art Museums (7/15/05)
Drawn from Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly (6/23/05)
Villa America: American Moderns, 19001950 (5/17/05)
Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters (6/14/05)
Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color (5/24/05)
The Art of the Stamp (5/24/05)
George Biddle, Raphael Soyer, and the Genius with a Thousand Faces; essay by Andrew Ladis (5/18/05)
Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit, Celebrating 20 Years of Public Art (5/18/05)
Trompe l'Oeil: The Art of Illusion; article by Louis A. Zona and Gary T. Erbe (5/16/05)
On the Paintings of Bert Carpenter; essay by Hilton Kramer (5/10/05)
Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe( 4/22/05)
Pop!; article by Sean M. Ulmer and Carole McNamara (4/20/05)
Jacob Lawrence: In Focus; article by Sean M. Ulmer (4/20/05)
Richard Thompson: Seasons of Light and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Painting a Story (4/5/05)
Heroes, Villains, and Mermaids: the Fantastical World of Ronald Markman {4/4/05)
Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern (4/4/05)
Beautiful Resistance: Works on Paper from the Heard Museum Collection (3/29/05)
Byrdcliffe as a Utopian Community (3/25/05)
The Art of Warner Brothers Cartoons (3/9/05)
A Tincture of Madness: Zelda Fitzgerald and Modernist Art; essay by Everl Adair (2/28/05)
Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972 - 1985 (2/21/05)
With Friends: Six Magic Realists 1940-1965 (2/21/05)
Drawn from Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly (2/3/05)
After Whiteness: Race in the Visual Arts (2/3/05)
Paintings by Irving Norman: The Measure of All Things; essay by Patricia Junker (1/31/05)
An American First: Walter Anderson's Blockprints (1/27/05)
Robert Henri and the 1915 San Diego Exposition; essay by Jean Stern (1/27/05)
Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts, Selections from the Permanent Collection (1/25/04)
Cotton Puffs, Q- tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha (1/20/05)
The Visual Literature of Bernarda Bryson-Shahn: Developing a Social Conscience (1/18/05)
(above: Julian Alden Weir, The Open Book, 1891, oil on canvas, 31.7 x 29.1 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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