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  • May 22, 2023

    Elvehjem renovation prompts Vasari move

    One of the Chazen Museum of Art’s oldest, largest, and most important Renaissance paintings now has a gleaming new gold leaf frame and a new […]

  • Martyl (American, 1917-2013), Santa Fe Snow (Los Alamos), n.d., oil on hardboard, 19 7/8 x 26 in., Bequest of Alexander and Henrietta W. Hollaender, 1991.636
    October 19, 2022

    American Art: Martyl Schweig Langsdorf paints a secret snowy city

    Since we are already experiencing snow in Madison, here is a snowy painting from the Chazen collection. Martyl Schweig Langsdorf painted this modernist scene of […]

  • October 13, 2022

    American Art: Charles Sprague Pearce’s ‘The Shawl’

    Happy birthday to Charles Sprague Pearce, who was born on this day in 1851. Pearce is the artist of “The Shawl,” one of my favorite […]

  • William Beechey (English, 1753–1839), Portrait of Sir Thomas Littledale of Rotterdam (1744–1809), before 1797, oil on canvas, 30 ¼ x 25 in., University Fund purchase, 67.10.1.
    October 6, 2022

    American Art: Portrait of Sir Thomas Littledale

    Lately, I have been spending a lot of time working on the upcoming re:mancipation exhibition, which opens in February. When you visit the exhibition, you […]

  • September 29, 2022

    Village of Olinda: Focus on nature glosses over slavery’s reality

    One of the paintings that interests me most in the Chazen collection is Village of Olinda, Brazil by the Dutch artist Frans Jansz. Post. In […]

  • John Steuart Curry (American, 1897–1946), An All-American (Forward Pass), 1941, mixed media on canvas mounted to hardboard, 41 x 31 in., gift of Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, transfer from the Wisconsin Athletics Department, 2013.8.
    September 15, 2022

    All-American Schreiner was model for Curry’s Forward Pass

    It’s football season! John Steuart Curry, UW-Madison’s first artist-in-residence, painted this composition, originally titled Forward Pass, for Abbott Laboratories to use as a magazine cover […]

  • The two men in this image are represented as noble figures with stylized features. The visible hand holding a tool highlighted in a way to create the letter “I” appears quite large, a reminder of the importance of manual labor
    August 31, 2022

    Carl G. Hill Lithograph Celebrates Unions

    Monday, September 5, 2022, is Labor Day, which recognizes the American labor movement and contributions of America’s workers to the United States. Labor Day became […]

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    August 23, 2022

    American Art: William Keith, Mokelumne River, High Sierras

    This week I am preparing for the upcoming exhibition Resource & Ruin: Wisconsin’s Enduring Landscape, which will open this December. I have been thinking about […]

  • August 23, 2022

    American Art: Georgia O’Keeffe

    Georgia O’Keeffe is best known for her vibrant, modernist paintings of New Mexico and enlarged flowers. However, this quiet but beautiful still life of flowering […]

  • August 2, 2022

    Works on Paper WEHNsday with James Wehn! 8/3/2022

    Coke vs. Pepsi. Android vs. iPhone. Sake vs. mochi? I recently encountered this whimsical battle between sake (rice wine) and mochi (rice-paste cakes) by Utagawa […]

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