Robert Frank: Mary's Book
Called “a poet with a camera” by Edward Steichen, photographer Robert Frank was one of many artists who searched for creative freedom in postwar Paris...
Van Gogh
The Roulin Family Portraits
“What I’m most passionate about, much much more than all the rest in my profession—is the portrait, the modern portrait,” Vincent van Gogh wrote in...
John Wilson
Witnessing Humanity
American artist John Wilson (1922–2015) was not only a master draftsman, printmaker, painter, and sculptor active for over seven decades, but he was...
Rachel Ruysch
Nature into Art
The first monograph in over 70 years on the celebrated female Dutch painter In the first half of the eighteenth century, Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) was...
Reframing Photography
Multiple Histories
Since photography’s beginnings in the nineteenth century, the medium has constantly evolved—in its purpose, its audiences, its collectors, and...
Songs for Modern Japan
Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900 to 1950
The years between 1900 and 1950 were a whirlwind of change in Japan, with increasing modernism, consumerism, and influence from the West, alongside a...
Timeless Splendor:
Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Susan and Matthew Weatherbie Collection
A female subject gazing out at the artist, arm akimbo; a lush tablescape with oysters and sweets; a sweeping view of Haarlem under a grand sky; and an...
Strong Women in Renaissance Italy
The story of the Renaissance in Italy is often told through the work of great male artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo. But...
Dutch Art in a Global Age
The seventeenth century has long been considered a “golden age” for Dutch art, fueled by the Dutch Republic’s growth as an economic world power...
Fashioned by Sargent
“The coat is the picture,” John Singer Sargent explained to his fellow artist Graham Robertson in the summer of 1894, tugging a heavy garment ever...