Berthe Morisot, A Woman in a Garden, 1882/3, The Art Institute of Chicago
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- Wednesday, September 7, 2016 In ChicagoWe have moved to Chicago. I went to the Art Institute soon after we arrived and was happy to see that the museum has a wonderful Berthe Morisot. I have wanted to keep thinking about her. I find that I remember vividly each experience I’ve ... more»
- Sunday, May 22, 2016 Sargent NotesI am writing this in a notebook that has on the cover of it a part of a Sargent water color. It's of a house, gray and brown mingled in the wash, with a roof speckled and dashed with white. An ordinary small mountain house, to which a stone ... more»
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- Tuesday, March 15, 2016 Conversation with Robert BirnbaumA couple of years ago, when my biography of Bernard Berenson came out, I had a long chat with Robert Birnbaum of Our Man in Boston and Identity Theory. The conversation was recently transcribed and posted here:https://ourmaninboston.wordpress.com/201 ... more»
- Tuesday, January 5, 2016 Instagram at the VQRThe Virginia Quarterly Review invited a group of writers to post fragments of things seen and iphotoed on their instagram feed #VQRTrueStory. I posted recently on photographs of hands, details from a painting by Edgar Degas and from a photograph of Sojourner ... more»
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- Gold, Golden, Gilded, GlitteringThis essay, on a long complex history of overlap in financial and artistic inventions, appeared in The Believer in the Nov / Dec 2012 issue. ... more»
- Looking at PoussinThis essay, on the occasion of the Metropolitan Museum's Poussin Exhibition, "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions," February 12-May 11, 2008, appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of The Threepenny Review. ... more»