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...painting in egg tempera, a technique that has not been in common practice since the quattrocentro, Wyeth will retreat to his studio near the old family home where he was brought up. He hates to be watched in his studio-except by dogs and kids. The William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum in Rockland, Me., has recently bought an essay by Troy Kaichen, a literate Gushing boy, who knows Wyeth well. It describes Wyeth at work...
...Others that have temperas: Milwaukee Art Center; Wilmington (Del.) Society of the Fine Arts; Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Mass.; Toledo Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia; William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum in Rockland, Me.; Shelburne (Vt.) Museum; New Britain (Conn.) Museum of American Art; Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn.; and Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, N.H. * Drybrush, used by Wyeth's mentor of the miniature, Albrecht Dürer, as early as 1450, is more like drawing than watercoloring in technique. The artist works...
...style. Computers in the Farnsworth Room. Badass...
...Modernism has another architectural-pilgrimage site. Like the Farnsworth House in Plano, Ill., a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe creation that the trust also owns, the Glass House has become a place where people come to marvel at the elegance and incontestable beauty of the Modernist idea in the hands of a master. (And also at things like the skimpy-looking electric range that Johnson tucked into the ultraefficient, small kitchen zone.) But even while the Glass House has been scrupulously restored and preserved, there are thousands of less well publicized Modernist homes on a kind of architectural death watch...
With Reading Period in full swing, now’s your chance to nab that prime studying location in the labyrinth known as Lamont Library. Farnsworth Room, Fifth Floor. Lamont’s own final club replete with leather chairs, dim-lighting, and butlers. As if computers were only for the plebes, the Farnsworth Room is a self-declared “laptop-free zone,” but that doesn’t mean cigars and velvet smoking jackets aren’t allowed (in fact, they’re preferred). Every December, the Farnsworth Room declares an Earl...