The questions raised in “Victorian Radicals,” a new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), manifest in the vivid juxtaposition of two objects at the show’s third-floor entrance: a ...
Amidst the cruelty and pollution of the Industrial Revolution in 19th-century Britain, a group of artists and designers dared to imagine a better world. A new exhibition at the Yale Center for British ...
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in England in 1848, was one of the first art movements to adopt a name and a manifesto, a strategy that morphed into the many “isms” of the 20th century. Alas, ...
British painting in 1837 -- Rebellion and official patronage -- The Pre-Raphaelites -- The predominance of genre -- The return to Greece and Rome -- The Victorian exotics -- Later landscape painting, ...
A work of quite stunning obscurity, Giuseppe Gabrielli’s painting The National Gallery 1886, Interior of Room 32 is not currently on display. But it is online and it reveals some important questions ...
Levin, Gail, "Edward Hopper: the art and the artist," New York: W.W. Norton, 1980, pl. 214. Goodrich, Lloyd, "Edward Hopper: selections from the Hopper bequest to the ...