April 7, 2020, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1For the Walls of America: Prints from Associated American Artists In 1934, publicist Reeves Lewenthal called together a group of 23 American artists to discuss his innovative plan for distributing art to the American public.
January 8, 2020, Filed Under: Art, Books + ManuscriptsTake a look at the sketches in the beloved books illustrated by Arthur Rackham by TRACY BONFITTO The turn of the twentieth century was the Golden Age of Illustration in the U.S. and the U.K., when, thanks to advances in print technology, a vigorous public appetite for finely illustrated books was met with works by illustrators such as Arthur Rackham (English, 1867-1939). On the… read more
July 22, 2019, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsDetecting forgeries of Aubrey Beardsley’s influential artworks “Pray forgive my frankness when I say that two of them are not only not by A.B. [Aubrey Beardsley], but are not in the least like him! It is astonishing to me how many people are taken in. Is it not perhaps because they buy a name and not a… read more
