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...group had formed around Henri in Philadelphia. Henri's original family name was Cozad--he was a very distant relation of Mary Cassatt--but his father, a riverboat gambler and property shark, had shot a man in Nebraska and had moved East and changed his name to escape the judge and jury. Young Henri (pronounced Hen-rye) became an artist through study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, which in the 1880s was still what its chief teacher, the great realist Thomas Eakins, had made it: the best place in America to learn direct, factual realist...
...FROM DAUMIER TO PICASSO, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Paris in the late 19th century was a Mecca of entertainment, from cafes and cabarets to ballet, opera and theater. This exhibition captures that effervescent era in paintings, prints and drawings by such artists as Manet, Degas, Toulouse- Lautrec and Cassatt. Through Sept...
...WHAT THOU EAT: IMAGES OF FOOD IN AMERICAN ART, New York Historical Society. From Mary Cassatt's 19th century vision of Five O'Clock Tea to Andres Serrano's 1984 photograph Meat Weapon, 70 works offering a rich diet of social history. Through March...
...story of self-creation told by the early work is just as surprising as anything in his Tahitian years. By 1880 the Sunday painter in his 30s had become a tardy impressionist, imitating Pissarro's landscapes and Mary Cassatt's moppets. After ten years of work in Paris, Brittany and with Van Gogh in Arles, Gauguin was making his first real masterpieces, like The Ham, 1889, a still life that pays homage to Cezanne and Manet while equaling both in its rigor and sensuousness, and Yellow Christ, 1889, with its startling extremes of yellow and orange. This painting of peasants...
Bloom was in fact a shrewd art investor. He bought paintings by Edward Hopper, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and Willem de Kooning. Among the most expensive: Thomas Wilmer Dewing's Lady in White (worth $750,000) and John White Alexander's Alethea ($660,000). Says Loraine Pack-Liebmann, a Manhattan art dealer: "The kid did well. Many of the works he has bought have appreciated substantially in value." Example: Severin Roesen's Vase of Flowers in Footed Glass Bowl with Bird's Nest, purchased for $175,000, may now be worth $250,000, a potential profit...