Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Author
Publisher
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An examination of the hotel and motel imagery-and the culture it represents--in Edward Hopper's iconic paintings and watercolors. The painter, draftsman, and illustrator Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of America's best-known and most frequently exhibited artists. Hotels, motels, and tourist homes are recurring motifs in his work, along with streets, lighthouses, and gas stations forming a visual vocabulary of transportation infrastructure. In ten...
Publisher
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Metamorphoses: in Rodin's studio reveals the work of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and the materials he used to accomplish it, along with his collaborators, models, studio assistants and founders, as observed by eyewitnesses, photographers and writers. The theme of metamorphosis plunges us directly into the secrets of the studio to unveil the constantly shifting creative process of this revolutionary sculptor. Rodin is a pivotal figure not only because...
Publisher
Denver Art Museum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American artists flocked to France in search of instruction, critical acclaim, and patronage. Some, including James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and Mary Cassatt, became highly regarded in the French press, advancing their careers on both sides of the Atlantic. Others, notably William Merritt Chase, John Twachtman, Childe Hassam, and Thomas Wilmer Dewing, part of the association known...
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