General interest
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Stories From Before the First Fifty
The Father of the Elvehjem
Stories From Before the First Fifty Years Art History Professor James Watrous left his mark on the UW campus in myriad ways, as a student, […]
A Different Kind of Border Wall
Stories From Before the First Fifty Years Wisconsin students quickly transformed the construction site of the Elvehjem Art Center into a public commentary on life […]
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