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 […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Emory Douglas’s Revolutionary Newspaper Art
Over the past weeks, due to the killing of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, America has […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
A Late-Career Silkscreen by Jacob Lawrence
This week I have been immersed in the life and work of Jacob Lawrence, one of the best-known artists of […]
Research Highlights: Insights into the American Art Collection at Rollins Museum of Art, The Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Research Highlights, Part 8: The Archives of American Art
One of the best resources for those of us who study American art is undoubtedly the Archives of American Art. […]
Dangerous Women Exhibition at Rollins Museum of Art, Exhibitions & Events at Rollins Museum of Art, The Collection at Rollins Museum of Art
Seductress or Rape Victim? Potiphar’s Wife in Art And Literature
One of the paintings in our current exhibition, Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art […]
Dangerous Women Exhibition at Rollins Museum of Art
Dangerous Women: Renaissance Painters at Rollins Museum of Art
One of the rarest paintings in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum’s collection is Lavinia Fontana’s Dead Christ with Symbols of […]
Exhibitions & Events at Rollins Museum of Art
A Closer Look At Our Summer Exhibitions: From Pump Manufacturing To Old Masters Paintings
How do paintings from an art-filled, Ohio home become the core of the only European Old Masters museum collection in […]
Dr. Ena Heller
The Community of Art
Communities are defined by people: families, friends, neighbors, and colleagues who share a way of life, a place to live, […]