Back in October, I wrote about the moment around the turn of the twentieth century when photography became art. In […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Esphyr Slobodkina and American Abstraction
This article was originally posted on February 2, 2021 by Grant Hamming. Recently I wrote about the changing taste for […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
On Changing Artistic Tastes and American Modernism, Part 2: Grandma Moses
Last week, I wrote about the shifting American taste in modern art at the middle of the twentieth century. I’d […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
On Changing Artistic Tastes and American Modernism
Recently, while conducting research on the painter Elizabeth Murray (herself worthy of a future blog post), I came across an […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Winter Scenes
Flashback to December, and I am looking out the window at a sheet of ice, deposited in my corner of […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Reginald Marsh, Depression-era New York, and Old Masters
In this blog series, I have tended to focus closely on American art. This is, of course, mostly by design: […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Martin Lewis and Urban America
I was inspired to write this post after enjoying a recent CFAM Work of the Week: Derricks at Night by […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Richard Lindner’s Funhouse New York
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the painter Wolf Kahn’s dramatic escape from Germany on the eve of World […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Seascape, Ship Portraiture, and the Drama of Detail in Marine Painting
This week I have been considering Black Squall at Gibraltar, a recent addition to the collection. Its maker, James E. […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Ernest Lawson and the Materiality of Paint
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 […]