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A pleasant fall drive to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University
Robert Rauschenberg's "Migration" is part of an excellent collection of contemporary art at the Johnson Museum College art museums present special challenges for the art museum junkie be… more →
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A pleasant fall drive to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University
emsworth wrote 2 weeks ago: Robert Rauschenberg's "Migration" is part of an excellent collection of contemporary a … more →
American Art at the National Academy Museum
emsworth wrote 3 months ago: Abraham Leon Kroll's 1920 painting "The Conversation" reminded us of portraits George … more →
American art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta
emsworth wrote 5 months ago: Till our recent baseball trip to the south, neither business nor pleasure had taken us to Atlanta. S … more →
Rubens and the old masters at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota
emsworth wrote 5 months ago: The interior sculpture garden at the Ringling Museum of Art This art museum junkie paused in his rec … more →
The great American art form: six baseball games in six days
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emsworth wrote 5 months ago: Tim Lincecum, last year's Cy Young award winner On our recent trip to the south, we focused on A … more →
American art in New Britain, Connecticut
emsworth wrote 7 months ago: The old museum building is on the right, the new one on the left. (April 11, 2009) Till a couple wee … more →
An exhibit with only 5 pictures at the Frick Collection
emsworth wrote 8 months ago: What museum would have the audacity to promote a special “exhibition” consisting of just … more →
The best American Impressionist painters
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emsworth wrote 9 months ago: Everyone knows the French impressionists: Claude Monet, August Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas … more →
American art in Canajoharie: the Arkell Museum
emsworth wrote 10 months ago: Of all the art museums we visit, the Canajoharie Art Museum is the most unlikely. There’s not … more →
Some modest suggestions for Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery
emsworth wrote 10 months ago: When you visit an art museum, do you ever find yourselves mentally relocating one of its Cezannes or … more →
King Lear (and Cordelia) on canvas
emsworth wrote 10 months ago: In an earlier, generously illustrated post, we noted how artists have liked to paint scenes from Ham … more →
Albert Bierstadt on a postage stamp
emsworth wrote 11 months ago: Our interest in art can be traced directly to our childhood enthusiasm for stamp-collecting, which t … more →
We stumble across some famous American paintings at the New-York Historical Society
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emsworth wrote 1 year ago: No matter how many times you visit New York City to see art, you can’t ever do more than scrat … more →
Why do they squirrel all that art away?
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emsworth wrote 1 year ago: Fernand Leger: The Smokers How often has it happened that Emsworth has made his way to the doors of … more →
George Grosz's The Wanderer at the Memorial Art Gallery: a connection?
emsworth wrote 1 year ago: Grosz: The Wanderer One of my favorite paintings at Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery is George … more →
American Impressionists at the Michener Art Museum
emsworth wrote 1 year ago: It’s well off the beaten path, but this the art museum junkie has found another small American … more →
Whistler's Mother has seen better days
emsworth wrote 1 year ago: Emsworth has read a lot of biographies, but never, till now, a biography of a painting. That’s … more →
Better than nothing: American paintings in the stacks at the Met
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emsworth wrote 1 year ago: Willard Metcalf's "The North Country," in storage at the Met (October 11, 2008) Emswor … more →
Hamlet (and Ophelia) on canvas
emsworth wrote 1 year ago: John William Waterhouse's "Ophelia" Seeing Hamlet recently at the Stratford Festival ( … more →
