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Regional Favorites from the Georgia Museum of Art

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Horizons, Steinunn Þórarinsdóttir

My hometown, Athens, Georgia, doesn’t always change much, but when I visited recently the Georgia Museum of Art was showing off its new renovation, which featured an extensive addition to show more of the permanent collection.  It’s a beautiful renovation in general and it was fantastic to see the new galleries showing so much of the permanent collection. 

There is also a new sculpture garden, currently filled with bronze sculptures by Icelandic artist Steinunn Þórarinsdóttir (don’t ask me how to pronounce that.) However, one of the noticeable features of the permanent collections was a regional focus in the works. It felt like home–and it also felt refreshingly different from so much of the work I see here in New York.

Some of my favorites:

Tallulah Falls, 1841, George Cooke

My Forebearers Were Pioneers, 1939, Philip Evergood

The White House, 1945, Georges Schreiber

Seven Steps, 1994, Radcliffe Bailey

Detail, Seven Steps

Georgia II, 2008, Leo Twiggs

Three of the Greatest Painters of the Past 150 Years?

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Now this is an exhibition I can get behind: Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm promises to be a brilliant and insightful exhibition. I heard the title, and I immediately got it: the loose brushwork and rich colors that developed over their long careers can seem remarkably similar despite the very different times and places in which they worked.

 Twombly’s 2008 Lepanto versue Monet’s 1914 Waterlillies:

“J. M. W. Turner, Claude Monet and Cy Twombly are three of the greatest painters of the last 150 years. This groundbreaking exhibition focuses on their later work, examining not only the art historical links and affinities between them but also the common characteristics of and motivations underlying their late style.” – More on the background to the exhibition here.

 Monet’s Japanese Bridge (1918-1924) and Turner’s Sunset:

I would love to see how they flesh it out–in the flesh, so to speak. Anyone want to plan a trip to Stockholm this October?