Archive for the ‘Book Review’ Category
Lee Krasner: A Fascinating and Iconic Modernist Master
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: April 1, 2011
Art historian and author Gail Levin will be at NMWA to read from and discuss her new biography about painter Lee Krasner. Sunday, April 3, 2-3:30 p.m. Free and open to the public! Book signing follows. No reservations required. For many years, Lee Krasner was overshadowed by her formidable husband, the renowned Jackson Pollock. Yet [...]
A Tribute to a “Singularly Painterly Painter”
Posted by: Broad Strokes on: January 25, 2011
“I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.”–Berthe Morisot Art historian Jean-Dominique Rey’s new book, Berthe Morisot (Flammarion, 2011), with an introduction by Musée d’Orsay curator Sylvie Patry, presents a comprehensive tribute to the life and career of the remarkable French artist, from her precocious talent as a child drawing and painting [...]
