November 24, 2015, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsListen: Frank Reaugh’s favorite monochrome pastel painting One of the most popular visitor features of our current exhibition Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West is the “guide by cell” audio tour for visitors. This audio tour lets visitors call in and hear informational snippets about the paintings on display. Ransom Center Curator of Art… read more
November 23, 2015, Filed Under: ArtFrida Kahlo’s “Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” to be displayed The Ransom Center celebrates the homecoming of one of its most famous and frequently borrowed art works, the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s “Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird” (1940).
November 18, 2015, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsPastel basics, from the Renaissance to Frank Reaugh to today “I love the big open skies of West Texas. I grew up in Virginia. There, everything is so much closer feeling. So coming out here for the first time, it’s just like—whoa! It’s almost a physical sensation you get when you’re out in that big, open-sky country. So that’s what… read more
