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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...
johnwjudge
Aug 15, 20202 min read
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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...
johnwjudge
Aug 12, 20202 min read
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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...
johnwjudge
Aug 8, 20202 min read
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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...
johnwjudge
Aug 5, 20204 min read
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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,...
johnwjudge
Aug 1, 20204 min read
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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...
johnwjudge
Jul 29, 20203 min read
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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...
johnwjudge
Jul 25, 20204 min read
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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...
johnwjudge
Jul 22, 20203 min read
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