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Millard Sheets' 1935 painting "California". (Pasadena Museum of California Art / June 11, 2007) Photo via LA Times'Millard Sheets: The Early Years 1926-1944' at Pasadena Museum of California Art
LA Times - March 16th, 2010 04:03
The leading California exponent of so-called American Scene painting, Millard Sheets was a prolific artist whose bucolic pastoral images of farms, the shore, rural Mexico and Hawaii, in oils and, notably, watercolor, capture a picturesque view of the 20th century. His work has a sunny, quiet disposition overall belying the era's harsher realities. Sheets held fast to his aesthetic principles---traditional restraint with some variations---marked by his signature Art Deco stylization. 

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Linda Ferber, The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision
On Sunday, Dr. Linda Ferber, of the New-York Historical Society, presented a lecture based on her new-ish book “The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision.” Cedar Grove, the ...
Lawrence Salander. Photo via Bloomberg.
Inventory from New York's bankrupt Salander-O’Reilly Galleries LLC, including European art from the 12th century to about 1725, will be auctioned, possibly by Christie's in June. Last ...
Thomas Moran, Mountain of the Holy Cross, 1875, oil on canvas. Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Gene Autry. Museum of the American West, Autry National Center image.
Thomas Moran's 1875 oil "Mountain of the Holy Cross" has returned to the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, after serving a tour of duty in two traveling exhibitions. This iconic ...
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Kyusetsu XII's For Love (High Heel). Photo © Gakuji Tanaka.Continuity & Change in Japanese Ceramics: An Evening with Miwa Kyusetsu XII
March 17, 2010
Japan Society
New York, New York
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Plácido Arango, president of the Royal Board of Trustees at the Prado, presents MFA Director Malcolm Rogers with the honor of knight-commander in the Order of Isabella the Catholic (Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel la Católica) MALCOLM ROGERS, DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON, MADE KNIGHT-COMMANDER, ORDER OF ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC, ON BEHALF OF HRH KING JUAN CARLOS I OF SPAIN
Release Date: 16 March 2010
Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), was honored as a knight-commander in the Order of Isabella the Catholic (Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel la Católica) yesterday evening at a special ceremony at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. ...

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