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...Stieglitz's lifelong bond with Marin was based on an intense mutual respect, although Marin was capable of putting it to unusual tests. Once, having extracted an advance of $1,200 from his buddy and benefactor to keep himself and his new wife going for a year, the great landscapist turned up after six weeks and told Stieglitz that he had blown every cent of it buying a waterless island in Maine, and that his wife was expecting. The chosen few who got to show at Stieglitz's galleries were not members of a stable but rather part foster children...
...Armenian painter's recurved, taut line, describing edge and implying volume in a single gesture, was preserved in the Dutchman's work. In fact, de Kooning's filial relation to Gorky resembled one played out in American art a century before: that of Frederic Church, the great landscapist, to his teacher Thomas Cole...
...chew that you can't help assenting to them. And the target of their moralizing is none other than Andrew Jackson, who Cole (and many of his patrons) feared was becoming an American Caesar, filling the once virtuous republic with the corruptions of opportunism. It seems that Cole the landscapist and Cole the magniloquent history painter were not, as was once thought, different artists. They were the same man, embodying the same peculiarly American anxiety...
Through Feb. 20. "Turner-Ruskin-Nor ton-Winthrop." Grenville Winthrop's collection of over 600 will be highlighted by an exhibition of prints by and after the great British Romantic landscapist Joseph Turner (1775-1851). Turner's interest was spurred by his education at Harvard under Charles Eliot Norton, who was in turn deeply influenced by John Ruskin, the British critic...
Through Feb. 20. "Turner-Ruskin-Norton-Winthrop." Grenville Winthrop's collection of over 600 works will be highlighted by an exhibition of prints by and after the great British Romantic landscapist Joseph Turner (1775-1851). Turner's interest was spurred by his education at Harvard under Charles Eliot Norton, who was in turn deeply influenced by john Ruskin, the British critic...