This week I have been considering Black Squall at Gibraltar, a recent addition to the collection. Its maker, James E. Buttersworth, is one of those artists, like Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, who was prolific and comfortably successful in his own time,…
In the last entry of this blog, I wrote about the American painter Wolf Kahn, whom the art historian Barbara Novak regarded as perfectly blending the American landscape tradition with the formal innovations of Abstract Expressionism.1 In this post I…
Lost (for me at least) amid all the tumult of March, when the first wave of COVID-19-related shutdowns were cascading across the country, was the March 15 death at age 92 of the painter Wolf Kahn. Having just completed my…
Back in June, I wrote about Jacob Lawrence’s silkscreen practice, relating it to his long-running immersion in Black life and history. At the time, I wanted to write about the other work by Lawrence in the collection, Harlem Scene (The…
