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Georgia O'Keeffee, a well-known painter of landscape, a Doctor of Arts...
Murphy had a dual career as an employee of the Boston post office and as an artist's model. John Singer Sargent, the painter and muralist, spotted him at a YMCA calisthenics class and hired him as a model...
Georgia O'Keeffe, a well-known painter of landscape, a Doctor of Arts...
...personal interests peculiar, perhaps only to Robert Motherwell, perhaps to a whole class of painters, can be seen as an extension of the artist's signature, that signature itself plays an important role in a number of the individual collages. These range from the address label of a pasted package to the Reversible Collage signed at the bottom, and again, upside down, at the top. The signature has always been one of the primary signs by which it could be asserted that the picture was something special in the world, and by which the painter could put himself into...
...Busch-Reisinger continues its show on the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler for a few days more. Hodler, although respected widely in Switzerland and Germany during his lifetime has been little appreciated here, and on previous stops in New York and Berkeley the show gained attention for Holder as a major new point of perspective in viewing early modernist art. The sketches are the most interesting thing in the show, and most of the larger works appear stiff and stilted by comparison. The landscapes are significant for prefiguring German Expressionist works...