Permanent Collections

Permanent Collections: A Tale of Two van Dycks

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

Permanent Collections: Homer Not Alone

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...

Permanent Collections: Cézanne at the Hammer Museum

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

Permanent Collections: Surface Praise for Vuillard

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

Permanent Collections: Art School à la Chardin

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

Permanent Collections: First a Car, Then a Bike, Now Some Boats

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...

Permanent Collections: Pin Matisse on Avery

"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...

Permanent Collections: Let's Start with Matisse

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