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Peter Saul on Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus’ Coney Island was the first picture I ever saw, in 1939 when I was 5 years old.
Phyllis Bramson on Henry Darger
Henry Darger is a self-taught artist whose life's work was discovered in his Chicago apartment in the months before his death in 1973.
Gregory Amenoff on Pieter Bruegel
First off, let’s get one thing straight. The Low Countries are aptly named. They’re low. No mountains at all. None!
Lesley Dill on Agnes Martin
I am writing about Agnes Martin because her work approaches me initially where I think I live, a place of attained quietness through years of meditation.
John Bowman on Gian Antonio Fumiani
Venice has a surfeit of amazing examples of painting, and one is reluctant to choose a favorite from the stunning array of this kind of art on view.
Elizabeth Huey on Fra Angelico
The predella panel of Fra Angelico’s Perugia Altarpiece envisions the humble yet heroic life of Saint Nicholas, also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker.
Tony Robbin on the Painter of Pech Merle
25,000 years ago an artist who looked a lot like you and me (except without the haircut and the Uniqlo clothes) climbed down 150 feet below the surface of what is now called France...
Adam Cvijanovic on Thomas Cole
He was not a particularly remarkable painter. There is no dazzling brushstroke or consummate gesture. They are paintings that get the job done and punch the clock.
Joan Semmel on Lisa Yuskavage
Young women’s yearning to regain their lost childhood without losing the sexual freedoms gained in the new independence is perfectly symbolized in Yuskavage’s images.
James Siena on Albrecht Dürer
It’s no coincidence that this particular self-portrait (the middle one of three he painted in his younger years) sits in the Prado.
Angela Dufresne on Gentileschi's 'Beheading' - Two Times
I know its an absurd statement to say – “Masterpiece” or “Greatest Painting Ever Made”. It’s obscene, and not in a good way, I admit this.
Martha Edelheit on Georgia O'Keeffe: A Reminiscence
It's 1965. I'm daydreaming in my studio about all the famous, inaccessible artists alive in the world. I think of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Julie Langsam on Frederic Edwin Church
I first saw Frederic Church’s “Twilight in the Wilderness” in 1996 on my first trip to Cleveland; I was wandering aimlessly through the galleries of the Cleveland Museum of Art when this painting stopped me dead in my tracks.
Jennifer Coates on Paul Gauguin: Pork Talisman
Paul Gauguin’s ham is like an archeological dig site with remnants of the porcine ancestor embedded in its terrain. The untamed progenitor of domesticated pigs, sus scrofa, or wild boar, haunts the charcuterie.
Jon Rappleye on Joseph Stella
I believe it was at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City where I first saw this jewel of a painting from across the room, beckoning me to come closer
Judith Linhares on Marsden Hartley
Acadian Light-Heavy is the very picture of erotic longing. The image has lived in my mind since I first saw it in reproduction in 1975.
Tim Doud on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The first paintings I ever interacted with regularly were those bought and traded in the board game “Masterpiece”. I had covetous relationships with many of the paintings in the game but two stand out.
Peter Drake on Maso di Banco
One of my favorite paintings in the world is Maso di Banco's St. Sylvester Resurrecting the Two Magi Killed by a Dragon and I've never seen it in person.
Hanneline Rogeberg on Titian
I grew up seeing the paintings of Munch and minor works of Northern European artists in the flesh, most of them tipping the scale at maudlin/austere.
Jason Mones on Leon Golub
I had the honor of joining Leon Golub and Nancy Spero to preview a Max Beckman show one evening in 2003. Leon needed help physically getting around at this point in his life and I was honored to lend him a shoulder to lean on.