Ship Masts and Telephone Poles: Sándor Bernáth’s Gloucester, Mass.
Today’s post comes from Natasha Mandell, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s Spring 2013 exhibition, Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, showcased some of the new additions to the Art Center’s collections. The exhibition covered a wide variety of time periods, movements, and media, including sixteenth- to twenty-first-century prints...
Seas, Trees, and Sawdust: The Artful Dodger with Peter Stillman
Today’s post comes from Deborah Steinberg, class of 2014 and Art Center Student Docent.
On February 22, Professor Peter Stillman kicked off our Artful Dodger series this spring with a discussion of two photographs that expanded upon the course he taught last semester around the Sawdust Mountain exhibition at the Art Center. Richard Misrach’s Salton Sea (T.V. Antennae) and Althea...
Winter Thoughts on a Truitt Summer
Today’s post comes from Deb Steinberg, class of 2014 and Art Center Docent.
Anne Truitt’s Sorcerer’s Summer (1991) is an abstract, modern sculpture that develops a visual intensity through its bold planes of color and precise rectilinear form. From across the gallery, the wooden sculpture appears very simple and solid, characterized by its crisp right angles...
Munch in Paris
Today’s post comes from Erin Gallagher, class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
Permeated by the dusky blue palette of nighttime Paris and an overriding sense of lonely isolation, the subtle scene of The Seine at St. Cloud evokes a melancholic sentiment from the back wall of the nineteenth century gallery in the Frances Lehman...
Idealized Reality in Ancient Rome
Today’s post comes from Stephanie Muir, class of 2015.
One of many classical works in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s collection, the Funerary Relief of Attia Rufilla reveals much about both artistic traditions and societal ideals prevalent within Ancient Rome. The head and neck, sculpted in extremely high relief, reflect the subject’s physical likeness and...
Stella in the Sculpture Garden
Today’s post comes from Erin Gallagher, class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
The stainless steel sculpture Etang d’ambach by Frank Stella is one of many compelling works now on display in the Art Center’s newly re-designed Sculpture Garden. In this 1992 sculpture, Stella—known for his bold, anti-illusionistic paintings—moves away from the minimalist aesthetic, departing...
Rivera and Tamayo at Hofstra
Today’s post comes from Simone Levine, class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
Currently on view at Hofstra University Museum is a retrospective exhibition featuring artist, poet, and professor emeritus Yonia Fain. The exhibition includes Fain’s works from 1959 to the present, as well as works by artists who influenced Fain, such as Diego Rivera...
Reading the Open Missal
Today’s post comes from Joe Brichacek, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.
The Open Missal has long been a favorite in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s collection. It is both stunningly realistic and highly symbolic. Indeed, the more time you spend with the work, the more details you find, and the more insight...
On the Wall: Frank Stella’s Slieve Bawn (1974)
Today’s post comes from Simone Levine, Class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
While reading Brian O’Doherty’s Inside the White Cube for an art history class I am taking this semester, I came across a section on how the work of Frank Stella operates within the gallery space. I was immediately reminded of Stella’s Slieve...
Summer in South America
Today’s post comes from Joe Brichacek, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.
I occasionally wander through the Art Center and attempt to view each of the paintings and sculptures as historical documents. Many paintings are explicitly historical, especially in the nineteenth-century gallery where we find Gustave Doré’s The Defense of Paris painted in 1871,...
Off-Campus: de Kooning at MoMA
Today’s post comes from Julie MacDonald, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.
Currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an exhibition of the works of Willem de Kooning. De Kooning: A Retrospective features works that cover the entirety of the artist’s career. Inclusive of early student works as well as...
In Focus: Machinery
Today’s post comes from Simone Levine, Class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
In its dark palette of brown, black, and metallic gray, Arthur Dove’s “Machinery” (1921) rarely catches my attention when I walk around the galleries in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Yet, Dove’s approach to modernism is strikingly different from the contemporaries...
