Award-winning blogazine, primarily about painting
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Here’s Charlie Finch (sitting on a lily pad?) at the Monet preview last week (Courtesy NY Sun Out and About blog) For the first time since the MoMA expansion, Claude Monet’s water lily paintings will be on view. I remember the huge exhibition (80 pieces) at the Boston Museum of […]
“Painted With Words: Vincent van Gogh�s Letters to �mile Bernard,” Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY. through Jan. 6. To complement the letters, more than twenty paintings, drawings, and watercolors by van Gogh and Bernard are on view. These works document their exchange of ideas�among them are paintings and […]
Ken Johnson in the Boston Globe: “For Monet, the drawing problem was twofold. Practically, his drawing skills were not up to academic standards. And he was temperamentally disinclined to submit to the conservative authority of academic rules and regulations. So even if it is true that Monet continued to draw […]
Two Coats Obituaries