The most celebrated painting in the collection of the Huntington Library is, of course, Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy. The...

One Thanksgiving a number of years ago, I visited my brother for a few days while he was living in Rochester, NY. On the day of my...

Paul Cézanne's Boy Resting, in the collection of The Hammer Museum at UCLA, is the focus of this edition of "Permanent Collections," my...

Many years ago I saw an exhibition called "Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard" at the Brooklyn Museum. This show brought together...

"[We] crouched over our portfolios a long time..." For this edition of "Permanent Collections," let's contemplate art school circa 1738,...

Another installment in my list of the 50 best/most important/interesting paintings in the Boston area. This time Robert Rauschenberg’s...

This is the kind of painting that I would have overlooked when I was much younger. Too gray and too boring, I would have thought. Its...

Next up in my catalog of the 50 best/most important/most interesting paintings in and around Boston is this recent addition to the...

"Some critics like to pin Matisse on me....But I don't think he has influenced my work." * It's hard to believe that Milton Avery...

For the next work on my list of the 50 best/most important/most interesting paintings in and around Boston, I head about 20 miles north...

This post is the first in a series I call "Permanent Collections." "Permanent Collections" is the result of countless hours spent...

50 best/most important/most interesting paintings in Boston, post number 3, Rembrandt’s “Artist in his Studio.” This little work--it’s...

The second in my series of the the 50 best/most important/most interesting paintings in Boston-area museums, is a work that I’ve actually...

This portrait, “Luis de Góngora y Argote,” by Diego Velazquez is the first in a series of posts that will feature what I consider the 50...