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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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 | Clark acquires a Barbizon beauty
Boston Herald - November 23rd, 2009 19:07
The Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has acquired a meticulously-rendered rural landscape by 19th-c. artist Pierre Etienne Theodore Rousseau, one of the key proponents of the Barbizon School. "Farm in the Landes" has until now been held in private collections and has not been widely exhibited since 1946. Rousseau worked on the painting for 25 years, and thought it one of his best. He wrote, it “is for me the object of serious thought...".Read more | |
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 | Winslow Homer in the Met's "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915"
MET podcast - November 23rd, 2009 14:00
In this podcast, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout shares her responses to "Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts," with its "adolescent girls caged up too long," and "The Gale," depicting "a woman used to hard work," two of the Winslow Homer paintings in the Metropolitan's exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915."Read more | |
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 | Darwin book found in bathroom worth up to $100,000
Reuters - November 23rd, 2009 15:37
Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" was first published 150 years ago today. Marking this introduction of the revolutionary theories of natural selection and survival of the fittest, Christie's London is selling a rare first edition this week. Expected to fetch 40-60,000 pounds ($66-100,000), the book was discovered tucked away in an Oxford, England, family's guest bathroom bookshelf...
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 | David Hockney's biggest work given a big space at Tate Britain
Guardian - November 23rd, 2009 18:31
Under grey skies in London yesterday, David Hockney arrived at Tate Britain to see the gallery put on display his biggest work, Bigger Trees Near Warter (2007). The oil painting of a grey day in east Yorkshire, valued by the Tate at £10m, is undeniably huge, 15ft by 40ft. The artist said, "Once you live in a place like California, well, you need the rain. I used to think there were dull days and now I think it's only you … dull people." Read more | |
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![Schwarz Gallery. Portrait of Mary Jane Peale [?], by Sarah Miriam Peale (American, 1800-1885). Circa 1840.](http://www.artfixdaily.com/images/cache/Schwarz Gallery Portrait137x160.jpg "Schwarz Gallery. Portrait of Mary Jane Peale [?], by Sarah Miriam Peale (American, 1800-1885). Circa 1840.")
