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  • As Museums and Their Collections Change

    When public museums came to be in the late 19th and early 20th centuries they were primarily formed to be a repository for items and artifacts that people had collected on travels or through…

  • Flying Machine

    Homage to Bleroit by Robert Delaunay, 1914. In 1909 Bleroit was the first person to cross the English Channel in an airplane. Delaunay wanted to capture this moment that he saw as the dawning…

  • Mad Logos

    The Hydra of Madison Avenue by Todd Schorr, 2001 This work is a trip down memory lane with a message about mass consumerism and Madison Avenue advertising. How many logos do you recognize? Schorr’s…

  • Family Dinner

    Lorenzo and Isabella by John Everett Millais, 1849. This work illustrates John Keats poem Isabella, whose work the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood much admired.

  • Life Captured

    Althea by John White Alexander, 1895. Private Collection. John White Alexander is primarily known as a portraitist who created beautiful, languid portraits of the young society women in his circle. He achieved success in…

  • Not What it Seems

    Study from the Palace of the Duke of Urbino, 1476. Commissioned by Frederico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino for a palace in Gubbio near Perugia, Italy, but now part of the collection of The…

  • Beautiful Connections

    Penelope Unraveling her Work by Dora Wheeler, 1886, textile. Wheeler and her mother ran an interior design firm and Dora Wheeler did some original textiles for the firm. This piece is featured in the…

  • Odd in a Good Way

    Dawn by Odd Nerdrum. When I was working at the Joslyn Art Museum in the 1991 I saw the work of Odd Nerdrum for the first time and was struck at how it seemed…

  • Vision

    The Apparition by Gustave Moreau, 1874-76, Louvre, Paris In this watercolor painting by Moreau we see Salome’s vision of the head John the Baptist is she remorseful or celebratory, it is hard to tell.…