Mary Cassatt

Edward Hopper painting to become U.S. postage stamp

2011-08-15 21:33:09

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Book Review: 'The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris'

2011-05-29 00:00:00

The Greater Journey Americans in Paris David McCullough Simon & Schuster: 560 pp., $37.50 For more than 40 years, David McCullough has brought the past to life in books distinguished by vigorous storytelling and vivid characterizations. He garnered...

Art review: 'American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915' @ LACMA

2010-02-28 21:32:45

'The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989' at the Guggenheim

2009-02-01 00:00:00

The history of American art has missed the mark, says curator Alexandra Munroe. It has overlooked the profound and pervasive contribution of Asian philosophy and culture to the caldron, and the exhibition she has spent five years organizing, "The Third...

Marlene Dumas subject of MOCA retrospective

2008-06-25 00:00:00

THE LARGE mid-career survey of paintings by South African born, Amsterdam-based artist Marlene Dumas that opened last weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art represents, in effect, her Los Angeles debut. A few works have shown up in local exhibitions,...

Chicago's new sparkle

1998-09-13 00:00:00

"The time has come to bring order out of chaos incident to rapid growth," wrote the architect Daniel H. Burnham. The year was 1909. The place, Chicago. The occasion, the unveiling of Burnham's sweeping, visionary plan to change the face of the city on the...

Poetry's Rock Stars Light Up Sunken Garden

2012-05-25 16:30:00

When hundreds of people showed up for a outdoor poetry reading in Farmington in 1992, causing a traffic jam, "it dawned on us," said an organizer, "this was going to be a yearly thing." That was an understatement. That first blockbuster evening has...

BLOCK EVENTS HIGHLIGHT MUSEUM AS TEACHING, LEARNING TOOL Spring and summer activities celebrate Block’s collections and role at Northwestern

2012-04-26 16:35:27

Museum of Art grows in stature, set to turn 15

2012-02-02 12:20:04

Collecting ��Where to put it all?

2011-07-15 12:03:00

By Elizabeth Johns Special to The Herald-Mail �� Almost everyone collects something. As a famous book collector once said: "After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all." Few of us collect books, but many enjoy the exhilaration...

Historian's next stop: Paris

2011-06-10 08:44:00

In one of his lesser known — but still exquisite — books, first published in 1992, David McCullough writes about painter Frederic Remington, an artist who captured the last glimmers of the twilight of the American West of the 19th century, a...

Creating a wax museum

2011-03-24 19:40:00

NEWPORT BEACH — Rows of third-grade students dressed in costumes stood statue-like, holding out their clenched right fists. As parents walked up and down the rows and pressed a red "button" on the students' fists, 8-year-old versions of Leonardo...

Reproductions of Mary Cassatt's "Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child" and a Claude Monet water lilies painting hang in the music room.

2012-06-12 19:30:00

Attend a gallery talk for scholarly insights on the works at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, including paintings by famed artists Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent. (500 17th Street, NW, 202-639-1700, corcoran.org)

2010-11-12 00:00:00

Back in its Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art home, Mary Cassatt's "Breakfast in Bed" (1897) evokes the Madonna and child.

2009-05-28 14:57:42