Christopher Volpe's Art Blog

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

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Albert Pinkham Ryder and the "ceaseless melody of the northern line"

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Albert Pinkham Ryder, Moonlit Cove , 1890 Albert Pinkham Ryder is one of several great 19th century American artists yet to become fam...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Just a Couple Good Paintings

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Vuillard Georges Rouault, Landscape with Red Sail, 1939. Oil on paper laid down on gauze, 19 3/4 x 33 Eric Aho, Sylvan, 50...
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Monday, September 14, 2015

Cezanne & Pissarro in Pontoise

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This morning I spent a fascinating hour or two contemplating images of paintings by Cezanne and Pissarro side by side, as they were when the...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

Lisa Noonis' TIDAL at the Banks Gallery

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Painter Lisa Noonis, who's a friend of mine, has hit it out of the park with a new series of beach-based paintings being exhibited in a ...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Clyfford Still

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1962-D by Clyfford Still Clyfford Still's large abstract canvases initially predated the abstract expressionism of Rothko and Pollock, b...
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Monday, July 20, 2015

Six Tips on Landscape (and other kinds of) Painting

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Rockwell Kent,  Moonlight in the Adirondacks.   1. The late Canadian landscapist  Robert Genn suggested that, “rather than go with you...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

Wolf Kahn: Excerpts from a Conversation

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I recently spent an hour with Wolf Kahn for a profile I’ve written for Art New England , which will be published in the September/October 2...
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