Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party shows his friends on an outing at the Maison Fornaise, a small hotel overlooking the Seine in the town of Chatou, a weekend getaway west of Paris. Our Renoir Boa
Critics have traditionally confined Paul Klee's contribution to American art as one of "spirit," and limited to the works of the New York School and other Abstract Expressionist painters. In fact, Kle
Many of the works - in particular the museum's Surrealist paintings - were bought directly from the artists or from their very first exhibitions. The famed Chick Austin, director of the Atheneum from
The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism. This book
