Drawing & Prints Archive
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Eva Hesse: “Pre-Sculpture”
Posted on April 4, 2013Kirsten Swenson, a contributor to the new book, Eva Hesse 1965, edited by Barry Rosen, writes here on the artist’s important transitions beginning in the last five years of her short […] -
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Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Posted on March 5, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century opens with Giovanni’s Boldini’s Portrait of a Lady, which features a popular society woman seated on an […] -
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The Civil War and American Art
Posted on December 5, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks In the century and a half since the Civil War, more than 75,000 books have been published about the war and its legacy. The figure speaks to the […] -
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Rediscovering the English Prize: A Conversation at the Yale Center for British Art
Posted on October 5, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks On Wednesday evening, more than 150 people made their way to the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) to attend the opening lecture of The English Prize: The […] -
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Roy Lichtenstein’s Love Affair with Chinese Landscape
Posted on August 3, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks When we’re asked to envision pop art, we tend to think of an art form that draws its objects and ideas from commercial culture: advertising, celebrity, mass production, […] -
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Character Sketch: The Comic That Inspired Roy Lichtenstein
Posted on June 26, 2012Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, by curators James Rondeau and Sheena Wagstaff (2012), accompanies an expansive Lichtenstein exhibition currently at the Art Institute of Chicago, later moving to the National Gallery […] -
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The Deep Blues of Bill Traylor
Posted on February 7, 2012Peculiarly, the story of Bill Traylor is both intensely local and transnational. Born into slavery in 1854, Traylor spent most of his life in the nearly unknown town of Benton, […] -
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The Art and Letters of Josef Stalin
Posted on January 4, 2012A little over a month ago, newspapers announced the passing of Lana Peters. Born Svetlana Stalina, Peters was the only daughter of infamous Russian dictator Josef Stalin. After defecting to […]