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...public before the last year of his life. Compared with the more spectacular romantics, he seemed rough and unfinished. Nor did he understand the work of the new impressionists ("Who on earth forces you to show such horrors?" he asked a gallery owner who was exhibiting work by Monet). He was a superlative draftsman whose brush drew spare and strong, and whose preoccupation was people. His people-often molded like sculpture and bathed in a somber but acid light-picnicked, gossiped, argued in court, rode on buses. But no matter how ordinary their acts, Daumier gave drama and dignity...
Among the latter are Cesanne's Boy in a Red Waistcoat, Monet's Sunshine (Belle Isle), Gauguin's Portrait of Meyer de Haan, and the Bathers With a Turtle, by Matisse. Also in the collections are Picasso, Annibale Carracci, and Dubuffet...
...many paintings are unforgettably good that it is hard to single out the best. I would certainly include among my favorites the beautiful contrasts of warm and cool colors in Monet's landscape of Montages, owned by Mr. Palmer. In this work of 1888 typically vibrant color enlivens its unconventional, simple composition. There is the stunning Cezanne of the boy in a red vest that Mr. Rockefeller owns, impressive for its fusion of linear clarity and almost overwhelming structural solidity. I was most intrigued by Picasso's 1916 still life that has none of the poster-like flatness...
Though he also painted-somewhat in the manner of Whistler with a dash of Monet-he kept his word. In 1905 he helped Stieglitz start the Photo-Secession Galleries in New York, a rallying point for those who wanted to "secede from the notion that photography is only literal representation." Steichen wanted to "push out the realm of the camera." He loved "wet days, yellow, foggy days, twilights," and to catch the mood, he would purposely blur the picture by kicking the tripod or wetting the lens. In developing his famed Steeplechase Day, Paris; After the Races, a carefree scene...
Unlike the men around her, Berthe Morisot was not much interested in experiment. Though her paintings are bathed in sunlight, they do not attempt to dissect each ray, or aim at capturing the fleeting moment as Monet's do. Berthe painted a world of beaches, picnics, race tracks and canals, of elegant ladies starting off to the theater and of young girls preening before the mirror. She feared that the impressionist obsession with light might be carried too far at the expense of form and harmony. The men who ate at her table sometimes chided her for her lack...