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It is certainly about time that a New York City museum shows a retrospective of the popular Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Bohemia Comes Undone: Amedeo Modigliani By Harriet Zinnes Jeanne H�buterne, 1919 Oil on canvas 36 x 28 3/4in. (91.4 x 73 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. […]

From April 28 through May 27, 2004 the Acquavella Contemporay Art Gallery (18 East Seventy-Ninth Street, New York City) held an exhibition titled, Lucian Freud: Recent Paintings and Etchings. LUCIAN FREUD By Harriet Zinnes From April 28 through May 27, 2004 the Acquavella Contemporay Art Gallery (18 East Seventy-Ninth Street, New York City) held an […]

It is rare that the eye hovering over the landscapes of the American artist Gretna Campbell, who died in l987 at the age of 65, turns away in shock or dismay. Gretna Campbell as Nature’s Keeper By Harriet Zinnes It is rare that the eye hovering over the landscapes of the American artist Gretna Campbell, […]

Even a quick look at the work of Romare Bearden … Romare Bearden By Harriet Zinnes Three Folk Musicians Romare Bearden, 1967 Collage of various papers with paint and graphite on canvas , 50 1/8 x 60 in. (127.3 x 152.4 cm) Anonymous Lender Copyright ©Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, New […]

What is it about Mark Rothko’s brushstrokes that stop the eye of the observer, make that eye glisten as if it belonged to the artist himself, who has lightened up the canvas to make marks of color defined and undefined? A Sheer Mastery of Color By Harriet Zinnes Mark Rothko       What is […]

Chuck Close: Process and CollaborationHarriet Zinnes       Chuck Close, Self-Portrait/Pulp, 2001. Stenciled handmade paper pulp in 11 grays, 57 1/2 x 40 in, Edition of 35.     Ifit is the human face that a viewer is interested in, then the artist ChuckClose’s depiction of his own face, fascinating and inexorable, must be […]

Still Smouldering Harriet Zinnes The Fire Under the Ashes: fromPicasso to Basquiat focuseson Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Gaston Chaissac (1910-1964), Jean Dubuffet(1901-1985), and Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949). The works were shownearlier in the year at the gallery’s booth at the Basel Art Fair, and theirfigures and forms have been largely drawn from tribal art, “art brut,” streetart […]

Lichtenstein on the Roof Harriet Zinnes To view art from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden of the MetropolitanMuseum of Art simply doubles the joy of viewing. Before one is the open sky inthe 10,000-square-foot open air space where uniquely tall buildings of the worldbecome airy decorative objects through spectacular views of Central […]

Louisa Matthiasdottir Harriet Zinnes In the catalogue essay by Lance Esplund of the exhibition of Louisa Mattiasdottirat the Salander-O’Reilly Gallery in New York City (through April 26, 2003)we are told that the artist usually painted her landscapes by memory. It is notalways the method of artists, and yet Matthiasdottir is studiously adhering toa rigorous objectivity […]

Robert Rauschenberg Harriet Zinnes The artist Robert Rauschenberg hardly needs an introduction. Since the mid-Sixtieshis work has absorbed attention. Perhaps it is his “Combines” thatheld together painting and found objects that still remain his most prized works.His interests are never single. He juxtaposes lithography, painting, photography,silk-screening along even with sculpture to make his signature work. […]