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M+S talks about American Art, along with contributions from curators, historians, and gallerists around town.

‘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…

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…

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…

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