Such shows, he suggests, create an interest in early art among clients who previously focused on paintings.
The unnamed auction consignor also focused on paintings by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, an Alabama native who trained in New York and Paris and spent years in Egypt and Algeria.
"This grew out of my own desire to be able to see these paintings in one place — and looking to see if such a book existed, I couldn't find anything," said Mr. Karpeles, who added that he had come across only a doctoral dissertation that focused on paintings in Proust and a book published in a small printing in Bogotá, Colombia, in the early 1990s with a number of black-and-white reproductions.
Quite understandably, so far this attention has mainly focused on paintings, given their predominant role in museum collections.
"Soft Focus: Paintings and Photographs," group show.
HUDSON "Soft Focus: Paintings and Photographs," group show.
This show focuses on paintings and works on paper from the 50's.
Drawn from the museum's 19th- and early 20th-century collections, this show focuses on paintings depicting rivers in Connecticut.
On June 29, the lecture will focus on paintings at Westbury House, including works by John Singer Sargent, Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds.
The city itself contains five shrine-like enclosures: immersive environments where, rather than focusing on paintings or sculpture, visitors are made to stop and think.
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center is presenting the first major American museum show devoted to De Dominicis, focusing on paintings dating from the 1980s to 1998 and featuring simplified, totemic images of mythic figures like the Hindu goddess Urvashi.
