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 […]
May 22, 2023
The Chazen Blog
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October 19, 2022American 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 […]
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October 13, 2022American 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 […]
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October 6, 2022American 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 […]
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September 29, 2022Village 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 […]
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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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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, 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 […]