Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Monsters and Maidens: Amphora Pottery of the Art Nouveau Era Tour Blueprint

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Exhibition Dates: November 1, 2009-April 11, 2010 Introduction Between 1892 and 1918 the Amphora Pottery Company manufactured thousands of r...
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Rembrandt: The Embrace of Darkness and Light Tour Blueprint

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Exhibition Dates: November 7-January 18, 2010 Introduction Rembrandt: The Embrace of Darkness and Light consists of over one hundred prints...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Carleton Watkins :: Yosemite Photographs

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Did You Know :: Carleton Watkins’ Yosemite Photographs Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) had virtually no practical photography experience during...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

An Interview with John Baldessari

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For a lovely introduction to John Baldessari's thinking, you can read a wonderful interview with artist John Baldessari from 2004, orig...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Mary Snowden: Levittown

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Levittown 2001 Painting on panel Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Gift of the artist Levittown, New York, a tract-home development bu...

Faces: Chuck Close and Contemporary Portraiture Tour Blueprint

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Introduction Faces: Chuck Close and Contemporary Portraiture features artworks selected from the San Francisco collection of Doris and Dona...
Friday, April 3, 2009

Frank Stella, "Agua Caliente"

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FRANK STELLA Agua Caliente Print, Silkscreen, 1972 Frank Stella is one of America’s leading contemporary artists. He was a pioneer of the M...

Hans Meyer-Kassel, "Nevada Landscape"

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HANS MEYER-KASSEL Nevada Landscape Oil on canvas, 1945 From the Nevada Historical Quarterly , by Jeff Nicholson: "Hans Meyer-Kassel, a ...

Robert Swain Gifford, "Landscape with Cattle"

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ROBERT SWAIN GIFFORD Landscape with Cattle Etching, 1888 Robert Swain Gifford was born in 1840 on Naushon Island, Massachusetts. He studied...

Harold Joe Waldrum, "Morning Light"

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HAROLD JOE WALDRUM Morning Light Aquatint etching, 1991 Joe Waldrum is best known for his paintings, aquatint etchings, and linocuts of the ...
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Harold Lukens Doolittle, Morning in Yosemite

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HAROLD LUKENS DOOLITTLE Morning in Yosemite Aquatint (no date) Harold Doolittle (1883-1974) was an etcher, furniture maker, and civil engine...

William Dassonville, Yosemite Valley

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WILLIAM DASSONVILLE Yosemite Valley Photograph, Platinum Print, 1906 The following is from the book Dassonville , with a biographical essay ...

Jeff Nicholson, Sunset Down South

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JEFF NICHOLSON July Down South Oil on canvas, 1979 Jeff Nicholson has been painting landscapes for 35 years, working primarily in oil and wa...
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Frank de Haven, Sunset Landscape

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FRANK DE HAVEN Sunset Landscape Oil on canvas, 1910 Frank DeHaven was born in Bluffton, Indiana (date unknown). He came to New York in 1886...

Edwin M. Dawes, Fields of May

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EDWIN M. DAWES 1872-1945 Fields of May Oil on canvas, ca. 1915 Edwin Dawes was born in Boone, Iowa in 1872. He studied art in Pennsylvania ...