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M+S talks about American Art, along with contributions from curators, historians, and gallerists around town.
Marin and the Critics: Marin’s Legacy
Jonathan Spies • March 1, 2020
Above: John Marin 1870-1953 | Movement: Sea Played with Boat Motive, 1947 | Signed and dated at lower right: Marin…
Marin and the Critics: Marin in New Mexico
Jonathan Spies • February 29, 2020
Above: John Marin (1870-1953) | Dance of the Pueblo Indians, 1929 | Signed and dated at lower right: Marin 29…
Marin and the Critics: The Painter of Maine
Jonathan Spies • February 28, 2020
“Stonington, Me., has given itself to John Marin. He has painted it looking outward and looking inward, houses and rocks…
Marin and the Critics: The Weehawken Sequence
Jonathan Spies • February 27, 2020
“Especially interesting is a group of thirty-one small sketches painted on the Weehawken cliffs in 1903 and 1904 [sic.], for…
‘A shouting Spread-Eagled American’
Jonathan Spies • February 25, 2020
“Sooner or later,” observed a critic for The Wall Street Journal, “everyone who writes about John Marin gets around to…
Met Acquire John Sloan’s Gray and Brass
Jonathan Spies • December 23, 2019
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced in 2019 its acquisition of an Ashcan masterpiece, John Sloan’s Gray and Brass (1907). In…
Huntington Acquires John Marin “Weehawken”
Andrew Schoelkopf • December 19, 2019
The two lively and evocative oil sketches by modernist John Marin (1870-1953) that were acquired are from a group of…
Paul R. Provost Joins Art Bridges
Jonathan Spies • November 21, 2019
Paul R. Provost has joined the museum-loan incubator Art Bridges Foundation as its chief executive officer. Dr. Provost holds an…
Homer, Wyeth, Rockwell: Three Visions of Veterans
Jonathan Spies • November 11, 2019
The jubilation at the end of World War II in September of 1945 fueled a hunger for commemorative illustration, and…
60 Years of Alaskan Statehood
Jonathan Spies • October 27, 2019
“Captain Bill stared at him with his indolent gray eyes, then put his hands behind his head, yawned widely, and…
NC Wyeth on the Big Screen
Jonathan Spies • October 26, 2019
Newell Convers Wyeth was fifteen years old when, in 1897, he declared his intentions to pursue a career as an…
N.C. Wyeth’s Strangest Adventure
Jonathan Spies • October 11, 2019
In 1897, over a decade after The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and twenty years after The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,…
Return of the Figure
Jonathan Spies • September 10, 2019
“We come at last to set ourselves face to face with ourselves; expecting that in creatures made after the image…
Precisionism By The Numbers
Jonathan Spies • August 11, 2019
It begins, like so many things, with Alfred Stieglitz. Well, you can trace them back further, but various strands of…
