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Giorgio Vasari was the Boswell of the 16th century art world. He was also its Sammy Glick. As a painter and architect he outhustled many of his betters for commissions in the courts of Florence, Rome, Naples and Bologna. Vasari had an inflated opinion of his talent as a painter...
One of the best known of 20th century American artists, Edward Hopper, who died in 1967, is familiar to generations of gallerygoers for his pictures of stark New England scenery and lonely city streets. But even before he achieved fame, Hopper was known to thousands of magazine readers as an...
Two new books show why Gail Levin's Edward Hopper as Illustrator (Norton/ The Whitney Museum of American Art; 288 pages; $24.95) brings together the dramatic paintings and drawings Hopper executed for the covers of such publications as Tavern Topics and Hotel Management, as well as the illustrations he...
Will Barnet has been making prints for nearly 50 years; his reputation as a formal virtuoso and innovator is now secure.
Will Barnet: 27 Master Prints (Abrams; 63 pages; $12.50) offers a sampling of work done over the past decade and provides fresh evidence of the artist's versatility. His lithographs employ a broad palette of muted, pastel colors, while the serigraphs are built up from large blocks of flat...