The Phillips Collection

Dove’s Miniature Watercolors Encompass Majesty of Nature

Arthur Dove
Courtesy Alexandre Gallery, New York
Arthur Dove

One sign that Arthur Dove: Watercolors, on display at Alexandre Gallery, is a museum-quality exhibit  read more »

Modern and Surreal Combined by a Man Who Loved Them Both

Two of my favorite American art museums, the Phillips Collections in Washington, D.C., and the Wadsw  read more »

Pierre Bonnard, Returns In Triumph To D.C. Museum

There was a time, in the early decades of the last century, when the newly created museums devoted t  read more »

Painter Leland Bell, A Great Lecturer, Finally Gets Exhibit

The Leland Bell exhibition, which has come to the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries after a yearlong tour  read more »

Painter Jacob Lawrence Still Grips and Stings

The American painter Jacob Lawrence, who died last year atthe age of 82, had the good fortune to enj  read more »

The Daumier Retrospective: More Than a Caricaturist

There are retrospective exhibitions of well-known artists that ought to be accompanied by a warning  read more »

In Renoir to Rothko Show, Art, Not Hype, Is First

For anyone with a keen interest in modern painting for the esthetic and intellectual pleasures it af  read more »

New Man at the Whitney: An End to Freak Shows?

As readers of this column have ample reason to know, I am not an optimist by nature.  read more »