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Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Twenty Cent Movie, 1936. Egg tempera on composition board, 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Purchase 37.43 © 2011 Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Reproduction, including downloading this work, is prohibited by copyright law without written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street) New York, NY 10024 June 21, 2013 - September 01, 2013 With his calligraphic brushstrokes and densely cluttered, multi-figured compositions, Reginald Marsh recorded the vibrancy and energetic pulse of New York City. In paintings, prints, watercolors and photographs, he captured the animation and visual turbulence that made urban New York life an exhilarating spectacle. His work depicted the visual energy the city, its helter-skelter signs, newspaper and magazine headlines and th...

FIRST MAJOR TOURING EXHIBITION OF GARRY WINOGRAND’S WORK IN 25 YEARS Retrospective Includes Some 200 Photographs, Nearly Half Never Printed Before Premieres in San Francisco and Travels to Washington DC, New York, Paris, and Madrid in 2013–2015 Garry Winogrand, Los Angeles, 1964; gelatin silver print; 11 x 13 15/16 in. (27.94 x 35.4 cm); collection SFMOMA, gift of Jeffrey Fraenkel; © The Estate of Garry Winogrand / Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Garry Winogrand, Untitled, from the portfolio Women Are Beautiful, ca 1970; gelatin silver print; 13 15/16 x 11 1/16 in. (35.4 x 28.1 cm); Collection SFMOMA, gift of Dr. L. F. Peede, Jr.; © The Estate of Garry Winogrand / Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco The first retrospective in 25 years of work by artist Garry Winogrand—renowned photographer of New York City and of American life from the 1950s through the early 1980s will debut at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in spring of 2013. Jointly organized by SFMOMA and the N...

One of the Last Important Hopper Works in Private Hands Will Immediately Become Iconic Masterpiece in Museum's Collection Edward Hopper, Intermission, 1963; Collection SFMOMA, purchase in memory of Elaine McKeon, chair, SFMOMA Board of Trustees (1995–2004), with funds provided in part by the Fisher and Schwab Families; © Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper, licensed by the Whitney Museum of American Art; photo: courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)has announced the acquisition of Edward Hopper's Intermission (1963), among the artist's largest and most ambitious paintings, and one of the last significant Hopperworks remaining in private hands. Intermission was acquired from Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, in part through gifts from the Fisher and Schwab families, and will immediately go on view to the public at SFMOMA on Friday, March 23. In the last years of his life, Hopper, who was never prolific, made only two complete works e...

Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967). Manhattan Bridge Loop, 1928. Oil on canvas. 35 x 60 in. (88.9 x 152.4 cm). Gift of Stephen C. Clark, Esq. (1932.17). Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. All rights reserved. Between the 1850s and the 1950s, American art and culture came of age, transforming itself from the provincial to the international, from literal depiction of the particular to abstract interpretation of universal artistic ideas. Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s explores the complex and extended process of maturation that occurred throughout this formative century of American art. Major paintings and sculpture from the renowned collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art reveal the challenges faced by artists to adopt and define a new art form—an "American" convention—that was identifiably their own. Beginning with the Hudson River School landscapes of Asher B. Durand, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Church, th...

Roy Lichtenstein, Look Mickey, 1961, oil on canvas, Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein, Gift of the Artist, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art In the first major exhibition since Roy Lichtenstein's death in 1997, some 130 of the artist's greatest paintings from all periods of his career will be presented along with a selection of related drawings and sculptures. This retrospective frames Lichtenstein's expansive legacy, from the classic early Pop paintings based on comic-book treatments of war and romance through subsequent series, including Brushstrokes, Art Deco, Modern, Mirrors, Entabulatures, Reflections, Interiors, and Chinese Landscapes. Over the course of his career, Lichtenstein's work has been the subject of more than 240 solo exhibitions, the last full survey having been organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1993. One of the key figures in the history of so-called pop art, Roy Lichtenstein shared with his contemporary Andy...

Image: Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, 1831–1833, oil on canvas, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Daniel J. Terra Collection Known today primarily for his role in the development of the electromagnetic telegraph, Samuel F. B. Morse began his career as a painter. One of his most important works is on loan from the Terra Foundation for American Art—the newly conserved Gallery of the Louvre (1831–1833). The painting depicts masterpieces from the Louvre's collection that Morse "reinstalled" in one of that museum's grandest galleries, the Salon Carré. He also envisioned the space as a workshop where individuals study, sketch, and copy from his imagined assemblage of the Louvre's finest works, including paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Veronese, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Watteau. Morse depicted himself in front, leaning over his daughter as she sketches, and included friend and author James Fenimore Cooper at left with his wife a...

Louis Lang The Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment from the Seat of War 1862 Newly conserved and on public view for the first time in over 60 years, Lang’s massive canvas documents the return of New York’s 69th Irish Regiment from Civil War battle on July 27, 1861. Shown against the dramatic backdrop of New York Bay, the scene captures the emotional and physical tumult that electrified the welcoming crowds. Lang’s mission to provide a complete impression of an actual urban event on such a scale is unmatched in 19th-century American art. Article re Restoration Featuring fifty-five works from New-York Historical’s great collection, Making American Taste casts new light on both the history of American art and the formation of American cultural ideals during a crucial period from roughly the 1830s to the late 1860s. During these years, spanning the era of Jacksonian populism through the aftermath of the Civil War, the role of the arts in a democracy was hotly debated in the United State...