Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BENJAMIN WEST: AMERICAN PAINTER AT THE ENGLISH COURT, Baltimore Museum of Art. Period pieces today, these 52 canvases show what made "the American Raphael" (1738-1820) the toast of London and the first American artist to achieve international renown. Through...
EDWARD HOPPER, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. A major realist painter, Hopper (1882-1967) is also an enduringly popular chronicler of New England lighthouses, late-night cafes and other American vignettes. Through...
...acrylic. The grid of Scully's paintings in the '80s speaks of two things: a desire for large order and a sense of impending slippage, as though the columns and lintels of paint had to be constantly tested, as though their pinning could come apart just as the painter turned his back. They are not smoothly designed but look somewhat improvised, like the sides of large huts. They are very "New York" paintings, but the city they evoke is not the foreigner's imagined grid of perfect planes; rather it is gritty, heavy, slapped-together lower Manhattan, where Scully...
EDWARD HOPPER, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. A major realist painter, Hopper (1882-1967) is also an enduringly popular chronicler of New England lighthouses, late-night cafes and other vignettes of the American scene. The Whitney's collection of his work is unmatched, as this sampling confirms. Through...
...many buildings were destroyed. Farther south and east the Normandie slips beneath the cliffs high above Les Andelys, where Richard the Lion-Hearted's Chateau Gaillard stands watch over the valleys below. Perhaps the most haunting of all the stops is Monet's retreat at Giverny, where the painter lived for 43 years until his death in 1926. In his calendar, June belongs to the rhododendrons and wisteria, but come summer each color will have its season, as the rambling roses bloom in August and dahlias erupt in the fall...