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ArtGeek Art Travel Blog Museum List by State Have You Met the Big Four? Posted on February 28, 2024 (February 28, 2024) by ArtGeek Painters by numbers. Canada has it’s Group of Seven. Cuba has Los Diez Pintores Concretos. The Taos Six applied academic techniques to indigenous themes, producing a uniquely American school of painting. Then there’s the international group of wildlife painters of the late 1800s and early 1900s — Richard Friese, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Bruno Liljefors, and Carl Rungius […] Read More… Posted in Art Exhibitions Art History Art Museums Artists Tagged Bruno Liljefors Carl Rungius Richard Friese The Big Four wildlife art Wilhelm Kuhnert Leave a comment Discovering the RCA+D Galleries Posted on February 24, 2024 (February 27, 2024) by ArtGeek Beginning with 75 students and 13 faculty members in 1931, RCA+D has grown to more than 110 buildings on 48 acres (SEVEN of which are art galleries!), 1600 students, and 140+ faculty members. Today it is ranked as one of the top art schools in the nation. […] Read More… Posted in Art Exhibitions Art Museums Tagged Abstract Expressionism art glass Art School Contemporary Art Omar CHacon Syd Solomon Leave a comment Discovering the National Museum of Women in the Arts Posted on February 2, 2024 (February 2, 2024) by ArtGeek At the angle of New York Ave. and H St. NW in Washington DC stands a 1908 landmark that was built as a Masonic Temple. In that capacity, women were not permitted to enter the building. Today, that same building is all about women — although men are more than welcome! Refurbished in accordance with the […] Read More… Posted in Art Collection Art Exhibitions Art Museums Museums Tagged National Museum of Women in the Arts specialty museums women artists Leave a comment Have You Met Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella? Posted on February 2, 2024 (February 2, 2024) by ArtGeek At the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC is an unexpected exhibition titled Impressive: Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (on through October 20, 2024). Ranging across the blue walls of three adjacent alcoves, a series of twenty-five 17th-century prints by artist Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (Lyon,1641-Paris,1676) depicts The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua (1675). The […] Read More… Posted in Art Exhibitions Art History Artists Tagged 17th century art engravings National Museum of Women in the Arts women artists Leave a comment Seeing Dorothea Lange’s Compassion Posted on January 22, 2024 (January 22, 2024) by ArtGeek The powerfully moving and iconic photograph, Migrant Mother (below), is the one image most people see in their mind’s eye when they think of Dorothea Lange. That was certainly true for me. But then I had the good fortune to spend time with dozens of her ground-breaking images, all equally eloquent and poignant, at the […] Read More… Posted in Art Exhibitions Artists History Tagged documentary photography Dorothea Lange Great Deprtession photography Leave a comment An American in Paris: Donald Beauregard Posted on September 21, 2023 by ArtGeek When a man’s life is cut short at a young age one wonders what his future might have been – especially when he had already accomplished notable things. This is the case with Donald Beauregard. Who?” You might well ask. Beauregard was an artist most of us have never heard of, but one who might […] Read More… Posted in Art Exhibitions Art Museums Artists Tagged American impressionism Modernism New Mexico Museum of Art Leave a comment Knotty Ladies Make a Beautiful Mess Posted on May 29, 2023 by ArtGeek Eleven women have been curated into a group show that throws new light on fiber art. These conceptual artists push the boundaries of their textile-based medium. While freely breaking the rules, they are serious about making a strong cultural and intellectual impact, while deftly and masterfully weaving meaning into their work. […] Read More… Posted in Art Exhibitions Artists Artwork Tagged Conceptual art fiber arts knots women artists Leave a comment Ima Hogg and Bayou Bend Posted on May 5, 2023 (May 5, 2023) by ArtGeek Ima Hogg, despite her unfortunate name, stands among the greatest patrons of American art. Her philanthropic legacy is broad and varied, but Bayou Bay — her home, gardens, and American decorative arts collection — is perhaps the most tangible. […] Read More… Posted in Art Collection Art History Art Museums Art Patrons Gardens Tagged American colonial decorative arts Early American House museum Houston Leave a comment Discovering the Menil Collection Posted on April 30, 2023 (April 30, 2023) by ArtGeek With a wink to Gene Autry and Tex Ritter who lauded the Lone Star state with the song, Deep in the Heart of Texas, I’m singing the praises of the Menil Collection, deep in the heart of Houston. In an idyllic tree-shaded art neighborhood covering 30 urban acres, the Menil campus includes five museum buildings, […] Read More… Posted in Architecture Art Collection Art History Art Museums Art Patrons Museums Tagged art patronage Houston Jean and Dominique de Menil Renzo Piano Rothko Chapel Leave a comment Curiouser and Curiouser – The Wundercammer” is a Thing” in Houston Posted on April 26, 2023 by ArtGeek Not unlike Grandma’s curio cabinet, a 16th- and 17th-century ‘cabinet of curiosity” was filled with a collector’s treasures. Although a small collection might have been laid out in a drawer, or arrayed on shelves, the term cabinet originally was defined as a room rather than a piece of furniture (think water closet and the Italian equivalent, gabinetto). It […] Read More… Posted in Art Collection Art Exhibitions Art History Art Museums History Museums Tagged Cabinet of Curiosities Collecting Collectors Houston Wundercammer Leave a comment 1 2 3 … 12 » Search Recent Posts Have You Met the Big Four? Discovering the RCA+D Galleries Discovering the National Museum of Women in the Arts Have You Met Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella? 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