Couples
Louise Bourgeois was prolific in a variety of media throughout her career, working in large-scale sculpture, installation, painting, and printmaking. Her work defied categorization, drawing comparison to Abstract Expressionism, Feminist Art, and Surrealism at any given time. Bourgeois’… Read More
Berkshire Morning
Born of Greek immigrant parents, Theodoros Stamos was awarded a scholarship to study sculpture at the American Artist’s School in New York. He switched his pursuits to painting in 1939 but never studied it formally. He ran a… Read More
Horse Silk (Night Sights Series)
Robert Rauschenberg claimed that since he grew up in a ‘very plain environment,’ he had to appreciate the simple, everyday things he encountered in life. Such an appreciation led to his spearheading a part of the Pop art… Read More
Woman in a White Dress
Lawton Silas Parker studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, as well as under the tutelage of William Merrit Chase. An original member of the Givernois Colony in… Read More
Flowering Trees
Willard Leroy Metcalf’s renown as a pivotal painter of the New England landscape stemmed from his studies with Georgia Loring Brown in Massachusetts and also in Paris alongside Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson. He earned a living through… Read More
Still Life
William Merritt Chase championed the formation of distinctly realistic American art as well as the teaching of it. Known as an enthusiastic and energetic instructor, Chase taught many future artists such as Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, Charles Demuth… Read More