Christopher Volpe's Art Blog

One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

A Chance Meeting

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Browsing through some upscale gallery websites recently, I started feeling like someone at a gourmet restaurant receiving course after cours...
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Sunday, January 2, 2011

John Henry Twachtman - Atmospheric Mastery

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John H. Twachtman, Winter Harmony , 1890-1900 American painter John Henry Twachtman created this sumptuous composition of gauzy grays, pinks...
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Bruce Crane, winter radiance

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Bruce Crane stands out as one of the most sensitive and ethereal of the American Tonalist painters who saw themselves as carrying the torch ...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Exuberant Abstraction

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The great American expat painter John Singer Sargent officially closed his portrait studio in 1907. He'd worked hard to become the most ...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

What mad pursuit?

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I stumbled upon this ancient marble relief while poking around in the online collection of the Museum of Fine Art (Boston). They've cata...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Chauncy Ryder: "the poetic aspect of nature"

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The Long Trail , Chauncy Foster Ryder, 1934 A largely forgotten master landscape painter created this large oil on display at the Currier Mu...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

The Shimmering Still Lifes of LaFarge

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Flowers in A Persian Porcelain Water Bowl, 186 1 John LaFarge had the kind of restless innovator's talent that drives someone from obse...
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