Art and Artifice

Last updated March 28, 2023

A Jurist by Paduan, 16th Century

Ground floor of the National Gallery of art is the Garden Cafe.

Inside the NGA in Painting Gallery

Detail image with female figure in George Bellows painting KIDS from 1906

George Bellows (1882-1925) was an American painter and lithographer known for his depictions of city life in and around New York City. He was associated with the Ashcan School, artists who sought to realistically portray urban reality, particularly including the lower working classes of people. The word "Ashcan" originally was used as a derisive nickname for their styles, but the artists themselves later began utilizing it themselves. Bellows died at the age of 42.

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Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents

This exhibition "reconsiders Homer’s work through the lens of conflict, a theme that crosses his prolific career. A persistent fascination with struggle permeates his art—from emblematic images of the Civil War and Reconstruction that examine the effects of the conflict on the landscape, soldiers, and formerly enslaved people to dramatic scenes of rescue and hunting as well as monumental seascapes and dazzling tropical works painted throughout the Atlantic world."

April 11 – July 31, 2022

MET Museum Fifth Avenue

Goya's Graphic Imagination – Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 8, 2021, 320 pages