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,...

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...

"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...

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