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 […]
September 29, 2022
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September 21, 2022Water Carriers Symbolize Spain in American Imagination
In August, the Chazen acquired a number of exciting new artworks. Today, I want to highlight this painting by Robert Frederick Blum. Toledo Water-Carrier was […]
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September 15, 2022All-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 […]
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September 6, 2022Napoleon Sarony, America’s first celebrity photographer
Long before you could follow your favorite celebrities on social media, Americans collected photographs of them. Napoleon Sarony became arguably the first celebrity photographer. He […]
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August 31, 2022Carl 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, 2022American 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 […]
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August 23, 2022American 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 […]
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August 2, 2022Works 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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August 1, 2022Passports for pirates: Colonial artists hustled for work
Many early American artists struggled to make a living and had to take on special commissions to support themselves. Edward Savage was one such artist […]
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March 28, 2022Professor High’s Impact on Black Art at UW–Madison
by Sophia Abrams ’22 The year is 1971. Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” oozes soulfully from the radio. On the sixth floor, in the relief […]