Mary G Morton
1) Corot: women
Author
Publisher
National Gallery of Art
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
United here for the first time, the paintings of women by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) constitute a small but stunning and important body of work. Corot: Women offers a new appraisal of these intriguing figures by one of the nineteenth century's great masters of landscape. The women painted by Corot read, dream, and gaze at the viewer, conveying an independent spirit and a sense of their inner lives. Corot's handling of color and his deft,...
Author
Publisher
The Phillips Collection, in association with GILES, an imprint of D Giles Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 'Luncheon of the Boating Party' (1880-81) is the jewel of The Phillips Collection. This volume reveals the fascinating characters in the painting and explores Renoir's technique.Eliza Rathbone is chief curator emerita at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.Mary Morton is curator and head of the Department of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.Sylvie Patry is deputy director of Collections...
Publisher
National Gallery of Art
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"More than fifty of Gustave Caillebotte's (1848-1894) strongest paintings illustrate the fertile period from 1875 to 1885 when he was most closely allied with the impressionists. Accompanying the National Gallery of Art's major new exhibition, coorganized with the Kimbell Art Museum, this volume explores the inquisitive, experimental, almost fearless vision that inspired his masterworks"--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A major new study of the portraiture of one of the most important artists of the nineteenth century. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) may be best known for his landscapes, but he also painted some 160 portraits throughout his exceptional career. This major work establishes portraiture as an essential practice for Cézanne, from his earliest self-portraits in the 1860s; to his famous depictions of figures including his wife Hortense Fiquet, the writer Émile...