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...
View ArticleWinter 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...
View ArticleSeas, 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...
View ArticleShip 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...
View Article“Exactitude is not truth”: Henri Matisse’s Roses de Noel et Saxifrage
Today’s post comes from Angela Brown, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent. For Henri Matisse, the most true and pure function of the painter was to show the essentials. He bought a small...
View ArticleStoking the connection between thought and emotion
Today’s post comes from Calvin Lamothe, class of 2017 and Art Center Student Docent. A group of local fifth graders had just finished their tour of the museum and were drawing in the galleries when one...
View ArticleA Recently Acquired Alice Neel Lithograph
Today’s post comes from Noble Ingram, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent. In 2011, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center acquired a lithograph by artist Alice Neel from Drs. Lenore Levine Weseley...
View ArticleFantasy and Reality in Natatorium Undine
Today’s post comes from Kamaria Mion, class of 2014 and Art Center Student Docent. Florine Stettheimer is one of the best examples of an artist whose life informs her work. Born into a wealthy New...
View ArticleChemical Bonds and Personal Connections
Today’s post comes from Michael Cadenas, class of 2015 and Art Center student docent. As a part of “The Artful Dodger” series of talks at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Marianne Begemann, Dean of...
View ArticleGoing Big
Today’s post comes from Olivia Zisman, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent On Friday, January 30, the Art Center’s current exhibition, XL: Large-Scale Paintings from the Permanent Collection,...
View ArticleVernacular Photography: Framing the Seen and Unseen
Today’s post comes from Sofía Benitez, class of 2018 and Art Center Student Docent. Recently, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center acquired two series of vernacular photographs from the Peter J. Cohen...
View ArticleMonsters in Miniature: The Bakemono Sōshi
Today’s post comes from Morgan Williams, class of 2017 and Art Center Student Docent. On October 29, 2015, Professor Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase gave a talk on the Bakemono Sōshi or Monster Scroll in...
View ArticlePrints Prints Prints
Todays post comes from Delphine Douglas, class of 2018 and Art Center Multimedia Student Assistant. Recently I’ve been exploring the prints of the Art Center. With curator Patti Phagan, the docents had...
View ArticleAmerican Hair Stories
Today’s post comes from Josh Schwartz, class of 2018 and Art Center Student Docent. In the 1967 musical Hair the cast sings “Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair/ Flow it, show it/ Long as God can...
View ArticleSpringtime Titles
Todays post comes from Delphine Douglas, class of 2018 and Art Center Multimedia Student Assistant. This week, I was inspired by the Charles Herbert Moore painting, The Catskills in Spring (1861), to...
View ArticleMy Brown-Eyed Girl
Today’s post comes from Will Kyle, class of 2019 and Art Center Student Docent. I took a class called “Color” taught by Peter Charlap, the chair of the art department. The class mostly involves lots...
View ArticleMy Friends at the Museum – Art that Speaks
Today’s post comes from Bella Dalton-Fenkl, class of 2020 and Art Center Student Docent. I remember one day last term when I arrived at the Art Center and was met with a surprise—I had to give a tour...
View ArticleFading from Memory: Mesoamerica to New York City
Today’s blog post comes from Curtis Eckley, Class of 2019 and Art Center Student Docent. On April 20, 2017, Late Night at the Lehman Loeb saw the surfacing of some of the Art Center’s more elusive yet...
View ArticleWinogrand’s Beautiful Women
Today’s post comes from Julian Ireland, Oberlin Class of 2019 and Art Center Docent. A recent exhibition that visitors to the Loeb often miss (yes, there is a gallery on the second floor) is Garry...
View ArticleCaro in the Garden
Today’s post comes from Claudia Ashworth, Class of 2019, and Art Center Student Docent. After a brief period of conservation, Anthony Caro’s work Slap (1976) returned to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art...
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