I have long wanted to discuss the related disciplines of art conservation and technical art history on this blog but […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
More Thoughts on American Art After Abstract Expressionism: Nancy Graves
In the last entry of this blog, I wrote about the American painter Wolf Kahn, whom the art historian Barbara […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Pausing to Appreciate Wolf Kahn
Lost (for me at least) amid all the tumult of March, when the first wave of COVID-19-related shutdowns were cascading […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
When Photography Became Art: Pictorialism
Today I would like to consider two photographs by American photographers, The Red Man by Gertrude Käsebier and Ziletta by […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, and Artistic Rivalry
The art world is no stranger to controversy. Recently, a number of major museums on both sides of the Atlantic […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Joseph Cornell, Earl Cunningham, and Collecting
In my research into the CFAM American collection, I have been moving more-or-less alphabetically by century, with occasional detours to […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
A Minor Jacob Lawrence Mystery Solved
Back in June, I wrote about Jacob Lawrence’s silkscreen practice, relating it to his long-running immersion in Black life and […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Oil Sketches at CFAM
In July you may have seen me deliver a Collections Conversations talk on one of my favorite objects in the […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Jean Charlot and the Joy of Discovery
As I have written this blog, I have tended to highlight recent scholarship that sheds new light on artists on […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Blackness and Abstraction, Part 2
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the African American abstract painter Sam Gilliam and his sometimes uneasy relationship with […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Connoisseurship, Part 2: Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
In the very first entry in this blog series I wrote about connoisseurship, one of the processes art historians use […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Sam Gilliam and Blackness
Sam Gilliam has long been one of the foremost American abstract painters, as well as one of the most successful […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
On the Direct Encounter with the Work of Art
I live in a smallish college town in the Blue Ridge Mountains, far from the bustling museum and gallery scenes […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Arthur B. Davies, Modern Art, and Yoga
I, like many people across the country, have been using YouTube yoga videos to break up my routine and introduce […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Romare Bearden, Activism, and Art
Recently in the United States there has been a great outpouring of activism, causing many of us to examine our […]