Previously in this space, I have written about the necessity of seeing works of art in person, as well as […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, and the Echoes of Downtown
In one of those quirks of the alphabet I wrote about when considering Joseph Cornell and Earl Cunningham, my list […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
More Thoughts on Photography as Art: Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand
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
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
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
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
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 […]