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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]