Not exact matches
She was not included in the major exhibitions of
realist art that took place in the 1960s in, among other museums, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in spite of her efforts at ingratiating herself with two of the major curators of the time, Frank O'Hara and Henry Geldzahler, by painting their portrai
art that took place in the 1960s in, among other museums, the Museum of Modern
Art, New York, in spite of her efforts at ingratiating herself with two of the major curators of the time, Frank O'Hara and Henry Geldzahler, by painting their portrai
Art, New York, in spite of her efforts at ingratiating herself with two of the major curators of the time, Frank O'Hara and Henry Geldzahler, by painting their
portraits.
The third gallery features early
portraits including the striking Arnold Comes of Age (1930) made the same year as American Gothic, an amalgam of Northern Renaissance works, but also Piero della Francesca, German
realist art by Wood's contemporary Christian Schad, and the idyllic and symbolic American landscapes of Arthur B. Davies and Maxfield Parrish.
Although
realist sculpture first emerged in the form of
portrait busts of Roman Emperors (compare these gritty works with romantic Greek sculpture), and was continued most memorably by sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), it wasn't until the advent of Pop -
Art in the 1960s that artists like Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John De Andrea (b. 1941) and Feuerman began to produce superrealist figurative sculpture.
The collection of American
art includes works by the great 18th century history painter John Singleton Copley; the Francophile Mary Cassatt, a leading figure in the American Impressionism movement; the portraitist Gilbert Stuart; the painter of the cowboy west Frederic Remington; the wonderful 19th century
realists Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins; the post-Impressionist Whistler; the virtuoso society
portrait painter John Singer Sargent; the Pop - Artists Jasper Johns, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein; co-inventors of «Action - Painting» Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner; and the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, to name but a few.
Although noted for his
portrait art as well as his genre painting and still lifes, he is best remembered for his landscape painting, whose detailed naturalism perfectly illustrates the principle that close attention to nature is the foundation of
realist painting.