Peter Schjeldahl: “Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection,” at the Frick. Nov 2, 2009
gime gems, including an incredible street scene by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Le Boulevard (circa 1760), whose bustling carriages, outdoor diners, urchin, beggar, and dog suggest a bewigged Reginald Marsh. The diminutive Fragonard (less than five feet tall) charms with a swift, sweet self-portrait. (New Yorker)
David and Barbara Stahl Collection is wide-ranging and captivating Oct 18, 2009
The collection s strengths lie in works from the early part of the 20th century, especially German Expressionist prints (the list includes George Grosz and Max Beckmann) and the social realism of Americans such as Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh, and John Sloan ... Reginald Marsh s stark, Depression-era etching and engraving has more bite: Bread Line, No One Has Starved, shows a row of men in long coats, shoulders slumped, waiting for food. (Boston Globe)
Arts: the week ahead Oct 8, 2009
EVOLUTION OF A SHARED VISION: THE DAVID AND BARBARA STAHL COLLECTION A collection of prints and drawings assembled over half a century, with an emphasis on such modern American artists as Edward Hopper and Reginald Marsh, but also featuring European old masters such as Rembrandt and Callot and German Expressionists such as Beckmann and Grosz. Through Jan. 3. (Boston Globe)
Farnsworth Art Museum surveys the career of Robert Indiana Aug 21, 2009
Influenced early on by Regionalist painters like Reginald Marsh and Edward Hopper, Indiana enrolled on the GI Bill at the art school of the Art Institute of Chicago, and moved to New York in 1954. There he became friends with Ellsworth Kelly and other young artists kicking against the dominant style of abstract expressionism. (Boston Globe)
A peak inside studios of famous artists Mar 7, 2009
It's a bit startling to see Reginald Marsh using a pair of binoculars to look out his studio window at passersby. Did he look through at the burlesque houses he liked to frequent. (Boston Globe)
Vermont painter George Tooker made waves in the art world Mar 1, 2009
" Even as a retrospective of his work moves from the National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts in New York to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (where it is up through April 5), he is spending the winter in a cramped little cottage in Vermont, living a life of Franciscan simplicity.He has been living more or less like this since 1960, when he and his lover, the painter William Christopher, left the whirlwind of New York and built a rudimentary house on a piece of... (Boston Globe)
