Chronology of Articles and Essays

August, 2001

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(above: Augustus Dunbier, Toward Taxco, 1949, oil on canvas, 24 x 28 inches. Private collection.)

 

Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

California Watercolor Painters in Context, essay by Donelson Hoopes (8/30/01)

American Pastorale: Drawings by John F. Kensett (8/29/01)

Ansel Adams at 100, essay excerpt by John Szarkowski (8/29/01)

The Amistad Research Center / Artist Biographies, essay and biographies by Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd (8/29/01)

An Unstill Life: S.C. Yuan / Paintings, essay by Kathleen Moodie (8/28/01)

Introduction to Art at Scripps: The Early Years, essay by Mary MacNaughton (8/28/01)

 

Realism in the Abstract Age, essay by Jason Edward Kaufman (8/27/01)

How-To: The Paintings of Deborah Oropallo (8/27/01)

Native Grandeur: Preserving California's Vanishing Landscapes; "Landscape Painting in California," essay by Jean Stern (8/25/01)

Acquisition of an Archive: The Graphic Works of Ed Ruscha (8/25/01)

 

William J. Glackens, Painter: A Tribute to C. Richard Hilker, Patron; article by Dean Porter (8/24/01)

Impressionism Transformed: The Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell (8/24/01)

Indianapolis Museum of Art Appoints Anthony G. Hirschel as New Director (8/24/01)

"Seeking the Realization of a Dream": The Paintings of Alvan Fisher; "Alvan Fisher," an essay by Fred B. Adelson (8/23/01)

"Fields," an exhibition; "Foundations of Art and Life", chapter from book by Donald J. Hagerty titled "Holding Ground: the Art of Gary Ernest Smith (8/23/01)

Emilio Caballero: Artista y Maestro en El Llano, article by Michael Grauer (8/23/01)

American Indian Portraits: Elbridge Ayer Burbank in the West (1897-1910) (8/23/01)

Prints of American Life: WPA Works on Paper from the Webster Collection (8/23/01)

 

Regionalism: The California View, essay by Susan M. Anderson (8/21/01)

Treasures from the Amistad Collection (8/20/01)

American Impressionism Goes West, essay by Charles C. Eldredge, PhD (8/17/01)

Harmonies and Contrasts: The Art of Marguerite and William Zorach (8/16/01)

Dahlov Ipcar: Seven Decades of Creativity (8/16/01)

Process on Paper: Drawings from Charles Bregler's Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (8/16/01)

Dr. John Schloder Appointed Director of St. Petersburg's Museum of Fine Arts (8/16/01)

Tasty and Bitter Fruit, article by Sarah Beserra; Quick--Draw at High Noon, article By Aleta Carpenter (8/16/01)

 

Continuity and Change: Southern California's Evolving Landscape, essay by Sarah Vure (8/15/01)

Eliseo Rodriguez: El Sexto Pintor, article by Carmella Padilla (8/15/01)

Peter Zokosky: The Nature of Being, essay by Gordon Fuglie (8/14/01)

Dream and Perspective: American Scene Painting in Southern California, essay by by Susan M. Anderson (8/13/01)

 

Art Is Long, Décor Short (Way Out West), essay by Roger Dunbier (8/13/01)

Will Barnet and Native American Art, essay by Twig Johnson (8/9/01)

The Metamorphosis of California Landscape Art, essay by Rexford E. Brandt (8/9/01)

John Whalley, American Realist; "John Whalley, An American Realist: His Paintings, Watercolors, and Graphite Drawings," essay excerpt by S. William Pelletier (8/8/01)

Watercolors of the American West: Selections from the Gilcrease Museum Permanent Collection; selected wall text, including selected biographies of artists in the exhibition (8/8/01)

Capitol Portraits; selected wall text, including biographies of artists in the exhibition (8/8/01)

 

Urban Invasion: Chester Arnold and James Doolin (8/8/01)

"Chester Arnold: Realizing Meaning," essay By Karen Kienzle (8/8/01)

"James Doolin's Illusionistic Vision," an essay By Patricia Hickson (8/8/01)

Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own; "The Women Who Rode Away: Carr, O'Keeffe, and Kahlo" article by Christopher Merrill (8/6/01)

 

American Impressionism from the El Paso Museum of Art (8/3/01)

Shared Passion: The Richard E. and Dorothy Rawlings Nelson Collection of American Indian Art; essay by Richard E. Nelson (8/3/01)

Pennsylvania Painters and the Roots of Realism, essay by Judith Hansen O'Toole (8/2/01)

A Matter of Style: Artistic Influences and Directions in 20th-Century Pennsylvania Painting, essay by Michael A. Tomor (8/2/01)

 

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