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  • Dance Lesson

    From Philadelphia, Beaux was a society painter in there and in New York. Her style was similar to the work of the most famous of the portraitists of the era, John Singer Sargent.

  • Kick Up Your Heels

    Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in the world of dance halls, becoming friends with the performers. He saw the upper class men of his birth, visit these lower class venues looking for drink and prostitutes and…

  • Who’s Watching Whom?

    Merry Jesters by Henri Rousseau 1906 Rousseau frequently visited the botanical garden in Paris for inspiration, he then concocted scenes with wild animals in his imagination and put them on canvas. His style was…

  • Peacock

    La Libre Esthetique exhibition poster by Gisbert Combaz, Library of Congress The Art Nouveau style was created as a reaction to the literal styles which dominated most of the 19th century. It is primarily…

  • All Grown Up

    Ophelia (“And he will not come back again”) by Arthur Hughes, The Toledo Museum of Art. This version of Ophelia is about 12 years after the first version where she looks like a little…

  • Little Girl Lost

    Ophelia, c. 1851-53 by Arthur Hughes, Manchester City Art Galleries. Hughes was influenced by Pre-Raphaelite Group after reading their publication The Germ. His painting of Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet represents a much younger woman…

  • Delirium or Grief

    Ophelia by John Everett Millais, 1851-2, The Tate Gallery, London Millais’ painting of Ophelia done very early in his career is one of the finest works created by the short-lived Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their…

  • Spots Before My Eyes

    Kusama with Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama, currently at David Zwirner Gallery NYC I got to see the Kusama exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2018 and I found it to be one…

  • Bringing the Modern to Tradition

    The Modern Song (Modan bushi) by K. Kotani, 1930. Japanese Art Deco period. The work presented shows us a country working to combine tradition with the modern western world whose influence had been felt…