Today’s episode is all about relaxing, taking a little break after a long year and before the holidays hit. So I offer you a quiet beach at the Jersey Shore in this serene painting by William Trost Richards.  We’ll find out how this Philadelphia-born artist embraced the idea of nature and art as keys to a better life and his connection to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. Thomas Cole and the Corcoran are key parts of the story, so here are previous episodes about them:  “A Pastoral Visit” tells the story of the founding of this influential museum and “The Voyage of Life: Childhood” is one of Cole’s dramatic allegorical paintings. SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode Music "Morning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 “Database Of Problems, Rolodex Of Lies” by Doctor Turtle https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/album/free-turtle-archive-everything-cc-by-by-turtle Artwork information  https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.195170.html William Trost Richards information https://chrysler.org/exhibition/seascapes-by-william-trost-richards/ https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.2710.html New York Times article on Richards https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/arts/design/william-trost-richards-at-national-academy-museum.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare “William Trost Richards: American Landscape & Marine Painter” by Linda S. Ferber https://archive.org/embed/williamtrostrich0000ferb (archive.org) “Niagara” by Frederic Edwin Church https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166436.html Episode on the Corcoran Gallery  “A Pastoral Visit” Episode on Thomas Cole “The Voyage of Life: Childhood” Transcript is available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/coast-new-jersey

Welcome back! I hope you all had a great summer. We’ll be spending the rest of 2024 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, starting off with a stunning portrait of a red-headed Irish beauty that shocked London society. We’ll find out who she is and how she was much more than a pretty face.  Then we’ll learn about the very mercurial artist she had to put up with, James McNeill Whistler and the chaos he caused in his own life and others!   SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” opening and closing themes are by Ron Gelinas:  “Ascension” https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo and “Easy” https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs Episode music “Chopin Waltz in A Minor, B. 150.” Performed by Aya Higuchi String Quartet no. 2 in B minor - II. Minuetto moderato.” Composed by Joseph Miroslav Weber, Performed by Steves Bedroom Band. Courtesy of musopen.org Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.12198.html https://www.nga.gov/features/joanna-hiffernan-the-white-girl.html https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.12198.html#relatedpages https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/woman-in-white.html https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/whistler-symphony-in-white-no-1-the-white-girl.html https://www.nga.gov/blog/how-whistler-painted-white-in-full-color.html James McNeill Whistler info https://www.theartstory.org/artist/whistler-james-abbott-mcneill Joanna Hiffernan Bio https://www.dib.ie/biography/hiffernan-joanna-jo-a9605 The Peacock Room https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/interactives/peacock-room/making-the-peacock-room/ Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/symphony-in-white/

“A Long Look” returns with new episodes soon! Meanwhile, I've been looking down the road trying to figure out the future of the show and realized I've been doing all the talking for the past 7 years! So now, I'd like to hear from you. I’ve put together a short audience survey to find out your thoughts and experience with “A Long Look.” To be honest, I'm deciding whether or not to continue the show and your feedback will really help. You can find it at alonglookpodcast.com/survey and it shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes. It's a Google form but you DO NOT need a Goole account to fill it out. The deadline is Nov. 15. I look forward to hearing from you and thanks so much! SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/  

Well, we’ve reached the end of our brief tour of the Smithsonian American Art Museum! I hope you’ve enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun getting to share this unique place with you and introduce you to some artists you might not have heard of.  I’ll tell you about the two-for-one experience of visiting the museum and its hidden gems. And I have...thoughts...about the stories it tells. SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT BELOW) “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Smithsonian American Art Museum https://americanart.si.edu/ Luce Foundation Center for American Art https://americanart.si.edu/visit/saam/luce Lunder Conservation Center https://americanart.si.edu/art/conservation National Portrait Gallery https://npg.si.edu/ Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/american-art-finale

In today’s episode we look at “Floating Clouds” by Hisako Hibi, one of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in prison camps on the West Coast during WWII. Paintings like this served as the only visual record of life in the camps as well as a way for prisoners to deal with the harsh conditions. We’ll find out how she and her family were able to build a new life after the war and how she persevered through her art and with the help of fellow immigrants.  SHOW NOTES  “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ EPISODE MUSIC “Timeless One” by Solas Composer https://soundcloud.com/solas_composer/timeless-one “Eastern Thought” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html Artwork information Hisako Hibi https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/floating-clouds-119617 Detention camp paintings https://janm.emuseum.com/groups/hisako-hibi-collection/results Hisako Hibi info https://americanart.si.edu/artist/hisako-hibi-33445 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisako_Hibi https://americanart.si.edu/blog/japanese-american-artists-hibi https://www.becomingvisible.si.edu/stories/hisako-hibi https://womenshistory.si.edu/blog/hisako-hibis-work-artist-was-almost-lost Exhibition info Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/floating-clouds  

Just in time for your Memorial Day travels, here’s an extended episode celebrating the anniversary of Impressionism! We take another look at three of the originals: Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Berthe Morisot. Her painting “The Mother and Sister of the Artist” is featured in the upcoming blockbuster “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment” opening Sept. 8 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Find out more on their site. SHOW NOTES Opening theme: "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs Episode Music: OFFENBACH CAN-CAN by Light Symphony Orchestra; Offenbach https://archive.org/details/78_offenbach-can-can_light-symphony-orchestra-offenbach_gbia0309744b EPISODES  Monet--Grainstack Show notes and transcript https://alonglookpodcast.com/grainstack/ Pissarro--Place du Carrousel Show notes and transcript https://alonglookpodcast.com/place-du-carrousel-by-camille-pissarro/ Morisot--Mother and Sister of the Artist Show notes and transcript https://alonglookpodcast.com/the-mother-and-sister-of-the-artist-by-berthe-morisot/ EXHIBITIONS “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment” National Gallery of Art (Sept 8-Jan. 19) https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2024/paris-1874-impressionist-moment.html “Mary Cassatt at Work” Philadelphia Museum of Art (May 18-Sept. 8) https://press.philamuseum.org/mary-cassatt-at-work/ “The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse” Dallas Museum of Art (thru Nov. 3) https://impressionistrevolution.dma.org/p/1 SUGGESTED READING “Luncheon of the Boating Party” by Susan Vreeland https://bookshop.org/p/books/luncheon-of-the-boating-party-susan-vreeland/11716075?ean=9780143113522 Transcript is available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/impressionism

It’s starting to get warm out so the seaside’s on my mind! In the latest episode we visit Appledore on the Isles of Shoals with American painter Childe Hassam. This group of islands off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine was a long-time vacation fave for this Boston artist.  We’ll find out how he fused the color and energy of artists like Claude Monet and Camille Pissaro with uniquely American settings like this stunning rocky New England shoreline. And the ruckus he and some of his fellow painters started to create a brand-new kind of American art! Transcript is available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/appledore  

Henry Sturgis Drinker and Cecilia Beaux had a complicated history but that didn’t get in the way of Cecilia making him the subject of one of her best portraits. In today’s episode, we’ll find out how Henry was just one example of the lengths this renowned Gilded Age artist went to pursue her dream of an art career. And how her talent, hard work--and the help of a good friend--got her started.   SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/   Episode music “Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 21 'Sunday'” by Frédéric Chopin Courtesy of the European Archive and musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/82-preludes-op-28/   “Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 17 'Scene on the Place de Notre-Dame'” by Frédéric Chopin Performed by Ivan Ilic. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/82-preludes-op-28/   “String Quartet no. 12 in F major 'American', Op. 96” by Antonín Dvořák. Courtesy of the European Archive and musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/4887-string-quartet-no-12-in-f-major-american-op-96/   Artwork information https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/man-cat-henry-sturgis-drinker-1635   Les Dernier Jours d’Enfance https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/les-derniers-jours-d-enfance   Cecilia bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Beaux#cite_ref-16   “Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in the Gilded Age” by Alice A. Carter. https://archive.org/details/ceciliabeauxmode0000cart   “Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter” by Sylvia Yount.  https://archive.org/details/ceciliabeauxamer00beau   Henry Sturgis Drinker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sturgis_Drinker   Transcript is available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/cecilia-beaux/

Putting ordinary people in odd, unsettling surroundings was the specialty of Hughie Lee-Smith. In today’s episode we look at his “Confrontation” from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  We’’ll find out how an encounter with Italian Surrealism and a forbidden childhood carnival forged a visual language he used to depict universal feelings of loneliness, separation, and alienation in post-war America. SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode music: “Passing Fields” by Quantum Jazz Courtesy of Free music Archive (CC BY-SA) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Quantum_Jazz/End_of_Line/05_-_Quantum_Jazz_-_Passing_Fields/ “Ghost Carousel” by LAURENT BUCZEK Courtesy of Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/build-up-scenes-ghost-carousel-155303/ “Between Worlds” by Tobias Webster (CC-BY) http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/tobias_weber/56664 "Shades of Spring" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artwork information  https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/confrontation-78130 Artist information Biography Hughie Lee-Smith by Leslie King-Hammond and Aiden Faust. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2010. Hughie Lee-Smith papers, c 1890-2007, bulk 1931-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. https://americanart.si.edu/artist/hughie-lee-smith-6317 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughie_Lee-Smith https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/04/nyregion/art-a-painter-finally-gets-his-due.html https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/12/nyregion/art-review-a-painter-s-evolution-visual-and-political.html Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/confrontation

Merry Christmas! For this year’s holiday episode we're looking at this kind of unusual Nativity scene jammed packed with the detail those Northern European Renaissance artists just loved! We’ll find out how the birth of Christ went from early spring to late December, the story of the arch, and the mystery of the missing gold platter! SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” opening theme is "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and the closing music is “Bring a Torch Jeannette Isabella” performed by John Sayles http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/holidaymusic.htm Episode music: “Away in a Manger” and “Angels We Have Heard on High” performed by John Sayles  http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/holidaymusic.htm “Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Teller of the Tales” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artwork information  https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.47.html “Early Netherlandish Painting”  https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/early-netherlandish-painting.pdf “Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges”  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Petrus_Christus_Renaissance_Master_of_Bruges “Petrus Christus in Renaissance Bruges : An Interdisciplinary Approach” https://archive.org/details/petruschristusin0000unse/page/167/mode/1up How Dec. 25 became Christmas The Christmas Story in Art  https://www.history.com/news/why-is-christmas-celebrated-on-december-25 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/12/25/why-is-christmas-on-dec-25-a-brief-history-lesson-that-may-surprise-you/ Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2865  

Just in time for Thanksgiving, we take a look at this sumptuous feast by one of the stars of still-life painting, Pieter Claesz. We'll find out three hints that tell us who might have owned this fabulous artwork and the amazing connection between the Dutch and one of your favorite ballpark treats!   If you want to follow along, you can find it here on the Gallery's site. SHOW NOTES  “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode music “Violin Concerto in F major, RV 293 'Autumn' - III Allegro” composed by Antonio Vivaldi. Performed by John Harrison. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/14910-the-four-seasons-op-8/ “Meadow Waltz” by Keys of Moon Music https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon/meadow-waltz-classical-piano-orchestra-free-download “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” performed by Kevin MacLeod https://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100313 Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.132271.html Artist information https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.18426.html “Pieter Claesz : Master of Haarlem Still Life” by P. Biesboer, Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2004. History of still life https://mymodernmet.com/what-is-still-life-painting-definition/ “The Dutch Gamepiece” by Scott A. Sullivan  Dutch cuisine “The Sensible Cook : Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World” by Peter G. Rose. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 1989. For a transcript, visit https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2825

In today’s episode we’re looking at “Childhood” by Thomas Cole. It’s the first of a series of enormous paintings he did called “The Voyage of Life.”  We’ll find out how Cole used this series to push the boundaries of landscape painting from just pretty pictures to something much more meaningful. And we’ll learn why the Gallery’s version isn’t the original!  SHOW NOTES  “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode music:  “Scenes from Childhood,” Op. 15, Robert Schumman https://musopen.org/music/2326-scenes-from-childhood-op-15/ “His Last Share of the Stars” by Doctor Turtle https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/album/free-turtle-archive-everything-cc-by-by-turtle Artwork information  https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52450.html https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/cole-the-voyage-of-life-childhood.html https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-19th-century-part-1.pdf Thomas Cole information https://thomascole.org/biography-of-thomas-cole/ https://thomascole.org/wp-content/uploads/FINAL-PDF-for-Website-2022.pdf Thomas Cole National Historic Site  https://thomascole.org/ For a transcript visit https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2804  

Autumn is a season of change, so it seemed like the perfect time to announce a few changes happening with the show!  First, I've got new music! The current theme did the job when I started way back in 2017, but it’s time for a refresh so I went with a couple tunes that are welcoming and relaxed, but a little funky. I hope you like it! I'm also moving to a monthly release schedule. These changes will start with the next episode, which drops soon.  Listen below for more details! I hope you enjoy the new sound and if you do, it would mean so much if you spread the word! Personal recommendations are one of the top ways people discover podcasts. Just send folks here or tell them to search for “A Long Look” wherever they get their podcasts. SHOW NOTES  “A Long Look” themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and “At the Cafe with You” by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ For a transcript visit https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2772

This work by Edouard Vuillard reminds me of the old Magic Eye images that ran in the Sunday comics back in the ’90s. You’d be presented with a dense, colorful pattern and have to figure out what the hidden image was. I could never do it.  In today’s episode we’ll find out how he and a group of young artists called the Nabis threw out the rules of traditional painting to create something more personal that made the viewer have to do some of the work of figuring out what’s going on. If you want to follow along, you can find it here on the Gallery’s site. SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT BELOW) “A Long Look” opening and closing themes are by Ron Gelinas “Ascension” https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo and “Easy” https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs Episode theme is “Gnossienne” composed by Erik Satie. Performed by Edward Rosser. Courtesy of musopen.org  Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52238.html Vuillard self-portrait https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.93000.html Vuillard info https://www.theartstory.org/artist/vuillard-edouard/ https://artuk.org/discover/stories/douard-vuillard-nabi-and-intimist “Bonnard to Vuillard: Intimate Poetry: The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant” by Elsa Smithgall, et al. New York, New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2019. “Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance : Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels.”  Salomon, Antoine., Guy. Cogeval, and Mathias. Chivot. Vol. 1, Milano: Skira, 2003. Nabis info https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dcpt/hd_dcpt.htm https://smarthistory.org/nabis-decorative-art/ Negative space trick https://mymodernmet.com/negative-space-definition/ For a transcript visit https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2728  

Today's episode takes us back to the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV, whose court was every bit as frothy as the clouds the harvest goddess Ceres is lounging on. We find out crabs are sometimes lobsters and how a penniless young man from the outskirts of Paris named Antoine Watteau ended up scoring a big commission from one of the most powerful men in the court. And why this painting is now so rare! If you want to follow along, find it here on the Gallery’s site SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT BELOW) “A Long Look” opening and closing themes are by Ron Gelinas: “Ascension” https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo and “Easy” https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs Episode theme is “Violin Concerto no. 3 in G major, K. 216” composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Performed by the NOVA Community Chorus, courtesy of musopen.org  https://musopen.org/music/2863-violin-concerto-no-3-in-g-major-k-216/ Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46149.html Watteau info https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1967.html#biography https://www.nga.gov/features/slideshows/18th-century-france-the-rococo-and-watteau.html#slide_1 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antoine-Watteau/Watteaus-Cythera#ref35071 Cancer crab info https://www.britannica.com/place/Cancer-constellation https://ima.princeton.edu/2016/06/21/junes-zodiac-sign-lobster-like-crabs/   For a transcript visit alonglookpodcast.com

Meet St. Francis, who’s in the middle of receiving a…um…complicated divine visitation. This wealthy young party lover and man about town gave it all up to live a more meaningful life and lead others to embrace self-sacrifice, love nature, and encourage peace.  In today’s episode we find out how his spiritual devotion led to this rather mixed blessing and why he’s one of the most popular saints.  If you want to follow along, you can find it at here on the Frick Collection’s site. Photo of St. Francis in gallery https://www.frick.org/blogs/middle_ground_bellini_breuer SHOW NOTES  “A Long Look” opening and closing themes are by Ron Gelinas: “Ascension” https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo and “Easy” https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs Episode music:   “Byrd O Magnum Mysterium” by William Byrd. Performed by Ensemble Morales https://musopen.org/music/10537-o-magnum-mysterium/ “Ale and Anecdotes” by Darren Curtis | https://www.darrencurtismusic.com/ Music promoted on https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Artwork information  https://collections.frick.org/objects/39/st-francis-in-the-desert https://www.frick.org/interact/miniseries/cocktails_curator/bellinis_st_francis_desert St. Francis info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi#Character_and_legacy https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Francis-of-Assisi#ref2420 In a New Light : Giovanni Bellini’s “St. Francis in the Desert.” Rutherglen, Susannah et al. New York: The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2014. “Cocktails with A Curator” St. Francis in the Desert https://www.frick.org/interact/miniseries/cocktails_curator/bellinis_st_francis_desert “Canticle of the Creatures” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canticle_of_the_Sun Meaning of stigmata https://www.franciscantradition.org/blog/78-feast-of-the-stigmata-of-saint-francis Transcript available at alonglookpodcast.com

In today’s episode, we get to picture ourselves in a dreamy landscape on a sunny afternoon courtesy of Annibale Carracci and the National Gallery of Art in DC. Annibale was a painter in Bologna, Italy from the 1580s to early 1600s and one of his big innovations was making landscapes like this a thing in Italian art.  We’ll also find out how Annibale is connected to celebrity artist Lavinia Fontana who we met in a previous episode and what happened to the poor guy when he took on a project with the client from hell!  SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT BELOW) “A Long Look” opening and closing themes are by Ron Gelinas: “Ascension” https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo and “Easy” https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs Episode music: “Classical Piano and Cello” by Danielyan Ashot Makichevich. https://pixabay.com/music/modern-classical-classical-piano-and-cello-short-version-112721 “The Well Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869 - Fugue No. 21 in B-flat major, BWV 866” by Johann Sebastian Bach. Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka. https://musopen.org/music/performer/kimiko-ishizaka/composer/johann-sebastian-bach/ Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.41673.html Carracci information “The Lives of Annibale & Agostino Carracci,” by Giovanni Pietro Bellori. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1968. "Annibale Carracci Artist Overview and Analysis". [Internet]. 2023. TheArtStory.org Content compiled and written by Libby Festorazzi Edited and revised, with Summary and Accomplishments added by Antony Todd Available from: https://www.theartstory.org/artist/carracci-annibale/ First published on 27 Mar 2020. Updated and modified regularly [Accessed 04 May 2023] Comments or questions are welcome at alonglookpodcast.com

In honor of Women’s History Month, we find out about trailblazer Lavinia Fontana, a celebrity artist in Renaissance Italy. Her portraits were all the rage among the nobility of Bologna and with the help of a supportive (and broad-minded) husband/business manager, she became the first professional woman artist.    SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” opening and closing themes are by Ron Gelinas: “Ascension” https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo and “Easy” https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs   Episode music: “Rondeau” and “My Mistress is as Fine as Faire ” performed by John Sayles “Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - 13 - Variatio 12 Canone alla Quarta” composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Kimiko Ishizaka.  http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm https://musopen.org/music/4107-goldberg-variations-bwv-988/   Artwork information  https://nmwa.org/art/collection/portrait-noblewoman/   Self-portrait  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15883827   Lavinia Fontana information https://www.nga.gov/press/acquisitions/2022/lavinia-fontana.html https://www.nga.gov/stories/lavinia-fontana-and-lucia-bonasoni-garzoni-two-professional-women.html https://www.theartstory.org/artist/fontana-lavinia/   National Museum for Women in the Arts https://nmwa.org/ https://nmwa.org/nmwa-at-home/   Lavinia Fontana: Pioneering Painter of the 16th Century (Getty) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgeDGtF11KY   Lavinia Fontana of Bologna, 1552-1614 Catalog for exhibition of the same name, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1998 Comments or questions are welcome at alonglookpodcast.com

Our final episode in our long look at Vittore Carpaccio examines the mysteries raised by a reunited panel painting and how a good cleaning can make all the difference.  SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode music is “La Verde Primavera,” “My Lady Carey’s Dompe,” and “Salterello” performed by John Sayles http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/earlymusic.htm Exhibition catalogue “Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice,” Peter Humphrey, Yale University Press, 2022.  https://shop.nga.gov/vittore-carpaccio-master-storyteller-of-renaissance-venice-exhibition-catalog Fishing and Fowling on the Lagoon & Letter Rack (Getty Museum)  https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103REK Two Women on a Balcony (Museo Correr/Google Arts and Culture) https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/due-dame-veneziane-vittore-carpaccio/5QEssF9uMskmLA New interpretation of reunited panels “Carpaccio's 'Hunting on the Lagoon': A New Perspective” https://www.jstor.com/stable/886357 (JSTOR, check your local library for access) Fishing scene theories Journal of Art and Society  “Carpaccio’s Double Enigma: Hunting on the Lagoon and the Two Venetian Ladies” https://www.artinsociety.com/carpacciorsquos-double-enigma-hunting-on-the-lagoon-and-the-two-venetian-ladies.html Post comments or questions at alonglookpodcast.com

Our next stop is Carpaccio’s “Virgin Reading.” We discover a hidden Jesus, a still-unsolved art mystery, and how Carpaccio broke the rules in his unusual depiction of the Virgin Mary. Check out the episode at alonglookpodcast.com to see the images mentioned. SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode music is “Goldberg Variations, BWV. 988 - Variation 12. Canon on the fourth.” Performed by Shelley Katz. Courtesy of musopen.org. https://musopen.org/music/4107-goldberg-variations-bwv-988/ Virgin Reading info https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.498.html Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century by Boskovits, Miklós., and David Alan Brown. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2003. Exhibition information  https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/carpaccio-renaissance-venice.html Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice by Peter Humphrey et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. X-radiography http://www.fineartconservation.ie/x-radiography-4-4-45.html Giorgione episode https://alonglookpodcast.com/the-adoration-of-the-shepherds-by-giorgione/ Post comments or questions at alonglookpodcast.com

Next up in our tour of Vittore Carpaccio is “Saint Augustine in His Study.” Carpaccio was a specialist in creating series of huge paintings designed to hang in sequence to tell the story of a saint or other Biblical story and “St. Augustine” is one of these.  We’ll find out how an unexpected visitor told the saint to get over himself, how Carpaccio created an immersive media experience in a Venetian meetinghouse, and how a dog beat out a weasel for a role in this scene.  SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode music is “Sheep May Safely Graze - BWV 208” and “Lone Harvest”  by Kevin MacLeod  https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Exhibition information  https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/carpaccio-renaissance-venice.html Artwork information Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice by Peter Humphrey et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. St. Augustine bio https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni tour (starts at 4:55) https://aur.edu/dalmatian-school-venice-professor-jason-cardone Words of Jerome to Augustine (Requires JSTOR login) Roberts, Helen I. “St. Augustine in ‘St. Jerome’s Study’: Carpaccio’s Painting and Its Legendary Source.” The Art Bulletin 41, no. 4 (1959): pg 292. https://doi.org/10.2307/3047853. Post comments or questions at alonglookpodcast.com

We kick off Season 7’s spotlight on Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio with his majestic, “Lion of St. Mark.” This enormous painting announces Venice’s return to power after a run-in with the League of Cambrai.  We’ll find out how a winged lion became the symbol of Venice, what happens when a couple of tourists get carried away, and how a pope changing his mind led to Venice’s resurgence. SHOW NOTES “Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice” is on view Nov. 20, 2022–Feb. 12, 2023. Find out more at https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/carpaccio-renaissance-venice.html “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Goudimel Hodie nobis caelorum rex” composed by Claude Goudimel. Performed by Michel Rondeau.  Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/43315-hodie-nobis-caelorum-rex/   Artwork information  Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice by Peter Humphrey et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. https://www.italyouritaly.com/blog/2021/1/21/the-lion-of-san-marco https://www.britannica.com/topic/League-of-Cambrai Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd ©2009, Anchor Books.  Post comments or questions at alonglookpodcast.com

Meet Vittore Carpaccio, a famous Renaissance artist you might never have heard of. He's the star of the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition, “Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice” which introduces this Venetian favorite to us for the first time! In Season 7, we’ll look at stories of lions, saints, puppies, and a reunited painting, and hidden Jesus! SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas “Gabrieli Canzon per sonar primi toni a 8, Ch. 170.” Performed by James Howard Young  https://musopen.org/music/43294-canzon-per-sonar-primi-toni-a-8-ch-170/

We’re going old school in this Christmas episode as we look at “Madonna and Child” by Giotto di Bondone, a guy who got so famous he goes by one name, Giotto! Kind of like Cher!  We’ll find out how he revolutionized religious art in Florence at the end of the Middle Ages. Like so many of the writers around him, he looked to the past in order to move forward. And you’ll find out the lengths I go to for my listeners! SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo   Episode theme is “Angels We Have Heard on High” by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3368-angels-we-have-heard-on-high License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.397.html ”Distorting the Madonna in Medieval Art“ (Smart History article) Cecilia Frosini lecture (video) Giotto information https://smarthistory.org/giotto-the-ognissanti-madonna/ https://www.theartstory.org/artist/giotto/ Arena Chapel frescoeshttps://smarthistory.org/giotto-arena-scrovegni-chapel-part-1-of-4/ Cimabué, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cimabue_-_The_Madonna_in_Majesty_(Maest%C3%A0)_-_WGA04932.jpg “The Decameron” (Internet Archive link) Post comments or questions at alonglookpodcast.com

Well, it’s fall, my favorite time of year! I decided to celebrate by pulling together three past episodes related to this beautiful season. We’ll revisit a stunning view of the Hudson River by Jasper Cropsey and see how Charles Sheeler turned a country stove into a modern image. Last but not least is Alma Thomas and her exuberant “Autumn Drama.” So join me for this special expanded episode of “A Long Look!” SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Quantum Jazz courtesy of Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Quantum_Jazz Cover image by Melk Hagelslag from Pixabay Link to Hudson River episode show notes and transcript Link to Doylestown episode show notes Link to Autumn Drama episode show notes and transcript

Woman with a Sunflower looks like one of Mary Cassatt’s charming domestic scenes. But when she painted this in 1905, times were changing and this is actually a bold statement of women’s rights!  In this episode, art historian Nikki Georgopulos joins us to share the secret of the sunflower, and how her research led to the painting’s original name being restored. “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Prelude no. 4 in F major” composed by Gabriel Fauré. Courtesy of musopen. org https://musopen.org/music/7934-9-preludes-op-103/ Closing theme is “Give the Ballot to the Mothers” courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways. https://folkways.si.edu/explore Artwork information Woman with a Sunflower https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46573.html Nikki Georgopolus blog post https://www.nga.gov/blog/cassatt-suffragist-symbolism.html  

Well, I've wrapped up our virtual road trip! I hope you enjoyed exploring works at other fantastic museums around the country. They all have great online resources if you want to check do a deeper dive into their collections. The show is mostly on hiatus for the summer, although I will be doing another extended episode in a few weeks, so stay tuned! SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas  youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://metmuseum.org The Art Institute of Chicago https://www.artic.edu J. Paul Getty Museum https://www.getty.edu/museum Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org The Cleveland Museum of Art https://www.clevelandart.org

This final episode of our virtual museum road trip takes us to the Cleveland Museum of Art to see the dreamy Vale of Kashmir by Robert S. Duncanson. We’ll find out how a self-taught American artist made it big and his connection to First Lady Dr. Jill Biden. SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9 no. 1” composed by Frédéric Chopin. Performed by Olga Gurevich.   Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/108-nocturnes-op-9/ Vale of Kashmir image https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2014.12 Duncanson info The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson 1821-1872, Joseph D. Ketner, University of Missouri Press, 1994. America’s Forgotten Landscape Painter: Robert S. Duncansonhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/americas-forgotten-landscape-painter-robert-s-duncanson-112952174/ Inauguration Highlights Rainbow Painting by African American Artisthttps://americanart.si.edu/blog/inauguration-highlights-rainbow-painting-african-american-artist-duncanson Robert S. Duncanson Charted New Paths for Black Artists in 19th-Century Americahttps://www.artnews.com/feature/robert-s-duncanson-landscape-painter-who-was-he-1234582541/ The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquisition Highlights 2014https://www.clevelandart.org/magazine/cleveland-art-2015-highlights/acquisition-highlights-2014 Lalla Rookh infohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalla_Rookh Taft muralshttps://www.taftmuseum.org/duncanson-murals Post comments or questions at alonglookpodcast.com

Today’s episode takes us to the Minneapolis Institute of Art for a long look at Claude Monet.  We’ll find out how the morning light on a neighbor’s haystacks inspired one of his most famous painting series and the hectic practice he developed to paint them! “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Sonatine - I. Modéré” by Maurice Ravel. Performed by Markus Staab. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/4724-sonatine/ Haystacks (Monet series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haystacks_(Monet_series) Artwork information https://collections.artsmia.org/art/10436/grainstack-claude-monet Monet info Perry, Lilla Cabot. "Reminiscences Of Claude Monet From 1889 To 1909." The American Magazine of Art 18, no. 3 (1927): 119-26. Accessed May 12, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23931183. Exploring Late Monet with Art Historian Kathryn Calley Galitz, Pac Pobric, Editor, Digital Department, 2018 https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/collection-insights/2018/monet-conversation

Isabella d'Este knew a thing or two about bad luck. A philandering husband who was out of town most of the time, the loss of three children, and oh yeah, running the government of Mantua while protecting it from invading armies while hubby was away! But she also knew Fortune can swing both ways. Our next stop is the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA where we find out why this majorly influential Renaissance Woman may have been the one to hire Dosso Dossi to paint this mysterious scene. SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Suite in F Major” composed by Michael Praetorius. Performed by Michel Rondeau. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/43633-suite-in-f-major/ Artwork information https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/822/dosso-dossi-giovanni-di-niccolo-de-lutero-allegory-of-fortune-italian-about-1530/ A Recovered ‘Fortune’ : Renaissance Work Cost $1,000, Sold for $4 Million https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-29-ca-849-story.html Dosso Dossi info https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1007/dosso-dossi-giovanni-di-niccolo-de-lutero-italian-ferrarese-about-1490-1542/ Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara (PDF) http://resources.metmuseum.org/resources/metpublications/pdf/ Isabella info https://isabelladeste.web.unc.edu/profile-of-isabella-deste/ https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/isabella_d_este https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_d%27Este “Fickle Fortune: Pinning Down Fortune in 16th Century Italy” by Megan Haddad (2019) Aleph, UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 16. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kw3v8st Frank Sinatra singing Luck Be a Lady Tonight https://youtu.be/X69P_Vce9vw  

In today’s episode, we travel to the Art Institute of Chicago for a long look at this iconic print by Japanese artist, Hokusai. You might remember from the Van Gogh episode that when French artists discovered colorful Japanese woodblock prints like this, it started the enormously popular Japonisme trend and eventually led to Impressionism.  But influence went both ways. In today’s episode, we’ll find out how a lab accident in Berlin led to Hokusai showcasing this vivid Prussian blue 130 years later. Please visit https://alonglookpodcast.com SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “La Mer - 3 - Dialogue du vent et de la mer” composed by Claude Debussy. Performed by the US Air Force Band https://musopen.org/music/14381-la-mer/#recordings Courtesy of musopen.org Artwork information https://www.artic.edu/articles/743/seeing-triple-the-great-wave-by-hokusai Hokusai bio https://www.artic.edu/artists/31492/katsushika-hokusai Ukiyo-e printing info https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=263hot9G8NA https://risingsunprints.com/blogs/introduction-to-ukiyo-e/explained-the-traditional-process-of-japanese-woodblock-printing Prussian blue story https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-21/prussian-blue-hokusai-great-wave-how-a-pigment-changed-the-world/8731732 Post comments or questions at alonglookpodcast.com

In today’s A Long Look, we’ll find out how German artist Albrecht Dürer pushed the limits of engraving by experimenting with tools used by armorers and goldsmiths. And we’ll discover how his love of Italian art and fascination with the human body led to this work.  Plus, we’ll find out the meaning of that menagerie of animals surrounding these two. You won’t believe who the parrot might represent! SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Dowland Lachrimae, or Seven Tears - 5. Lachrimae coactae” composed by John Dowland. Performed by I Solipsisti, courtesy of musopen.org. Artwork information https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336222 Albrecht Dürer information https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Dürer-German-artist#ref1949 The Print in the North: The Age of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 54, no. 4 (Spring, 1997) (PDF) Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300–1550 (PDF) One interpretation of the animals (Khan Academy) Printmaking information How to Identify Prints / Edition 2 by Bamber Gascoigne Engraving video (Metropolitan Museum) Armor images and information https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23944  

Talk about a bad rep. Poor Judas Thaddeus has had to contend with the shame of being confused with Judas Iscariot, the traitor who sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. But somewhere along the line he was rebranded as St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes. He’s so popular, he’s even the namesake of St. Jude’s Children's Research Hospital which is devoted to treating children with cancer and finding a cure.  In today’s Long Look we’ll find out about the artist who created this print, Hans Baldung Grien and get a crash course on woodblock printing! SHOW NOTES Please visit alonglookpodcast.com “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Missa Et ecce terræ motus - I. Kyrie - Christe - Kyrie.” Performed by Steve’s Bedroom Band https://musopen.org/music/31674-missa-et-ecce-terr-motus/ Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.676.html Artist bio https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.323.html St. Jude information https://www.stjudeshrine.org/sj/patron-saint-of-the-impossible/ https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=127 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Jude-Apostle History of woodcuts in the West Thompson, Wendy. “The Printed Image in the West: Woodcut.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wdct/hd_wdct.htm (October 2003) How woodcuts are made (video) https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/curatorial-departments/drawings-and-prints/materials-and-techniques/printmaking/woodcut St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital https://www.stjude.org/

Season 6 is finally here but with a twist! We’ll start at the Gallery but then travel virtually to other museums with fantastic online offerings.  The new episodes will roll out on the show’s new website alonglookpodcast.com! Of course, you’ll still be able to listen on your favorite app or streaming service.  If you have any questions or comments on the changes, email me at alonglookpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. If you’re a fan and want to support the show, please spread the word! Hit that share button, email a link to your grandparents, or call your mom! You know she wants to hear from you!  Personal recommendations are one of the top ways people discover podcasts.   So join me for the start of the new season, March 13! SHOW NOTES“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

It's been a busy 2021 at A Long Look! I'll be launching a new site at its new home, alonglookpodcast.com. The new home page features a grid of the latest episodes that’s a lot easier to navigate. No more constant scrolling looking for past episodes! You’ll now find the entire back catalog under the “Episodes” tabs in the nav bar. But don't worry, I'll still be bringing you the descriptions and backstories you love! And I’m starting work on Season 6 which will debut on the new site, so come check it out! I’ve made a big change on the back end, too, moving the feed to Libsyn, the granddaddy of podcast hosting companies. You shouldn’t notice any difference in your apps or streaming service, your subscription will automatically update. The new site will launch in early March and I really look forward to having you join me there! SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" theme is "Ascension" by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

I wasn’t sure I wanted to celebrate Christmas after this dumpster fire of a year. But we’re starting to have some good news, so I’ve become cautiously optimistic.  But did I feel optimistic enough to do a holiday episode? Would anyone want to hear one? I put the question to you in Instagram (@alonglookslowart) and the answer was a resounding yes! You guys are the best! So I pulled together three past episodes on works by Jan van Eyck, Giorgione and Gilbert Stuart that reflect the season and the idea of hope and miracles. Follow these links to their page on the Gallery’s site. On each Gallery page, click on the image and you’ll be able to zoom in and pan around. So please join me for this extended Christmas episode of “A Long Look!” BTW, the show will go back into hibernation after this. I’ve got some exciting changes brewing, which I’ll let you know about here and on Instagram! SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo The Annunciation Theme is “Greensleeves” performed by Paul Arden Taylor and Carol Holt Gallery entry Jan van Eyck (Netherlandish, c. 1390 – 1441 ), The Annunciation, c. 1434/1436, oil on canvas transferred from panel, Andrew W. Mellon Collection https://www.nga.gov/Collection/art-object-page.46.html Adoration of the Shepherds Theme is “Almain I,” composed by John Bull, performed by Mac Playback Harp. Courtesy of musopen.org Gallery entry Giorgione (Venetian, 1477/1478 – 1510), The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1505/1510, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection 1939.1.289 https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.432.html Giorgione information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgione The Skater (Portrait of William Grant) Theme is “6 String Quartets – Quartet no. 1” composed by Charles Wesley, performed by Steve’s Bedroom Band.  Courtesy of musopen.org  Gallery entry  Gilbert Stuart, The Skater (Portrait of William Grant), American, 1755 – 1828, 1782, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.39729.html George Washington (The Athenaeum Portrait) (National Portrait Gallery) Serpentine Greeting/Mohawk (YouTube video) The post The Christmas Episode appeared first on A Long Look.

I’ve been trying to practice gratitude this year to fight against the fear and toxicity that’s felt overwhelming at times. So, I decided to make a special, extended Thanksgiving episode to share this idea with you. I chose works from former episodes by Richard Norris Brooke, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and Aelbert Cuyp that reflect some aspect of family, generosity, or forgiveness that really resonates. I hope they help you to also step back and find balance in remembering the good things. SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode artwork Photo by 30daysreplay Marketingberatung on Unsplash. Photo composition by Karen Jackson. A Pastoral VisitTheme is “Which That Is This” by Doctor Turtle. Gallery entry https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166432.html#overview Richard Norris Brooke and William Corcoran information Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (PDF) The Prodigal SonTheme is “Adagio in G minor” composed by Tomaso Albinoni/Remo Giazotto and performed by Noh Donghwan Gallery entry https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.34956.html Joseph Bonaparte info NY times https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/nyregion/new-jersey/26bonapartenj.html River Landscape with CowsEpisode theme is Sonata No. 15 in D Major Pastoral, Op. 28 – I. Allegro composed by Ludwig van Beethoven performed by Paul Pitman Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., “Aelbert Cuyp/River Landscape with Cows/1645/1650,” Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, NGA Online Editions. https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.69390.html#entry Wheelock video: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.69390.html#relatedpages Paintings in the Dutch Golden Age  (PDF)

  We’ve reached the end of Season 5 and as this unbelievable year comes to a close, I’ll be taking some time off to figure out what’s next for the show. It’s been a huge pleasure bringing you all the great stories I found and sharing the incredible variety of works in the Gallery. And talking to the occasional guest like Bruce Campbell and Sandy Bellamy was great! I think what made this season special, though, was learning with you about the incredible Black artists of the Evans-Tibbs Collection. I was familiar with Henry Ossawa Tanner and Alma Thomas but finding out about the work and life of Margaret Burroughs and Edward Loper was amazing. We really only scratched the surface, so if you want to find out more about these and other Black artists, here are a few resources: Evans-Tibbs Collection exhibition Digitized Evans-Tibbs archive items Archive of American Art Finally, I want to thank everyone at the Gallery who have provided so much help and encouragement. I’ll continue to be on Instagram @alonglookpodcast, so look for me there! SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas (YouTube)

Did you know the US government once actually paid artists to work? During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration helped launch the career of Edward L. Loper, a prominent artist from Wilmington, Delaware. We’ll find out how his lifelong curiosity, study, and teaching built a successful career lasting more than 60 years. You can see Loper’s beautiful illustrations for the Index of American Design on the American Drawings page on the Gallery’s site. The Index is listed in the sidebar. You can get a version to zoom and pan around in here. SHOW NOTES  (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Night on the Docks – Sax” by Kevin MacLeod.  Licensed under a CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution License. Artwork Informationhttps://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.176358.html Gaudiano, N. (2009, Nov 19). Bidens’ New Home a Gallery for Delaware Art. Gannett News Service (PDF) Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/docview/450231157?accountid=46320 Exhibition catalogsThe Art of Edward L. Loper, Sr: On the Path of the Masters, University Museums of the University of Delaware, 2007 Edw. L. Loper: From the Prism’s Edge, Delaware Art Museum, 1996. InterviewsOral history interview with Edward L. Loper, 1964 Mar. 26  Edward Loper : African American Painter (Video) Edward Loper: Prophet of Color (Video) The post Quarry by Edward Loper appeared first on A Long Look.

Margaret Taylor Burroughs was an author, painter, sculptor, printmaker, curator, museum director, activist, and teacher who left an amazing artistic and historic legacy in Chicago. In today’s episode we’ll find out how she helped launch the Chicago Renaissance in the ’40s and how she combined her social activism with art. “Still Life” by Margaret Burroughs, American, 1943 Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.) SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Shades of Spring” by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4342-shades-of-spring License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cain, Mary Ann, and Haki R. Madhubuti. South Side Venus : the Legacy of Margaret Burroughs  Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2019. Link to materials on Margaret Burroughs at the NGA Library The Southern University Fine Arts Department Presents Dr. Burroughs., n.d. You Are Cordially Invited to an Exhibition of New Paintings by Dr. Margaret Burroughs., 1992. Margaret Burroughs, Marion Perkins : A Retrospective. Washington, D.C. (1910 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington 20001): Evans-Tibbs Collection, 1982. Samples of Burrough’s later works The Woman Who Helped Birth a Black Artistic Renaissance in Chicago (Vice article) Margaret Burroughs, co-founder of DuSable Museum, dies at 95 Wikipedia entry DuSable Museum Linocut printmaking video

Henry Ossawa Tanner became one of America’s most famous Black artists by depicting dream-like Bible scenes like this one. Click here to see it on the Gallery’s site. Clicking the image on their page will open a viewer that allows you to zoom in and pan around. In today’s episode we’ll find out how he went from working in a flour mill to a successful artistic career in Paris and what he has in common with another artist, Richard Norris Brooke. And we discover a mystery about one of his early works! SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Virtutes Instrumenti” by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4590-virtutes-instrumenti License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.195513.html https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/american-art-to-wwii/symbolism-america/a/tanner-angels-appearing-before-the-shepherds https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/henry-ossawa-tanner-and-his-influence-in-america/ Tanner Bio https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1919.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ossawa_Tanner#cite_ref-eoaah_6-0 https://americanart.si.edu/artist/henry-ossawa-tanner-4742 Tanner painting technique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWxErF_nzd4 The post The Good Shepherd by Henry Ossawa Tanner appeared first on A Long Look.

Click here to view “Autumn Drama” on the Gallery’s site. Clicking the image on their page will open a viewer that allows you to zoom in and pan around. Talk about a second act! Alma Thomas was a longtime art teacher in Washington DC, who began her art career after 35 years of teaching. She took inspiration from nature, color theory, and the works of artists she met through her involvement in the DC arts scene. All of this developed into her unique, colorful style. We’ll find out how she found success at age when most people have long since retired and achieved national recognition most artists dream of. And what she had in common with Henri Matisse! SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “All About the Sun” by Quantum Jazz. Autumn Drama https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.195514.html Alma Thomas information https://www.nga.gov/features/african-american-artists.html https://americanart.si.edu/artist/alma-thomas-4778 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas Alma W. Thomas : A Retrospective of the Paintings, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 1998 (online book, best viewed in browser) Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition catalog The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color, Johannes Itten Alma Thomas. Autobiographical writing by Alma Thomas on her Earth paintings, before 1978. Alma Thomas papers, circa 1894-2001. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. National Arboretum in October photographed by DC Gardens, courtesy of the National Arboretum CC BY The post Autumn Drama by Alma Thomas appeared first on A Long Look.

Welcome back to “A Long Look!” For the rest of the season, I’ll be presenting paintings from the Evans-Tibbs Collection, one of the most important collections of works by Black artists in America. It was the mission of Thurlow Evans Tibbs Jr. to raise the profile of Black artists by collecting and exhibiting their work in his Washington DC gallery from the 1970s through the early ’90s and by documenting their careers in an enormous archive. He inherited his love of art from his grandmother, known as Madam Evanti, the first professional African American opera singer to perform internationally. Joining me in this introductory episode is Tibbs scholar Sandy Bellamy, an adjunct art history professor at Howard University and manager of the Percent for Art Commissions program run by the Washington DC Department of General Services. Sandy takes us through the fascinating history of the collection, and the rich legacy of Black art scholarship born at Howard University decades earlier. SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Opportunity Walks” by Kevin MacLeod. https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4173-opportunity-walks http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/special/american-art-evans-tibbs.html https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/exhibitions/pdfs/2019/the-evans-tibbs-archive-of-african-american-art.pdf (PDF) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/01/17/art-dealer-thurlow-evans-tibbs-jr-dies/fb689a7d-8032-4c9f-a325-b66dce0490fa/ Digitized Evans-Tibbs archive items https://library.nga.gov/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01NGA_INST:NGA&collectionId=8153325980004896 BOOKS MENTIONED The New Negro, Alain Locke Modern Negro Art, James Porter

This colorful panel painting depicts an episode early in Jesus’s career–the moment he called Peter and his brother Andrew to join his ministry. It was part of an enormous altarpiece for the cathedral of Siena. We’ll find out what prompted the cathedral powers to hire Duccio, Siena’s top artist and how innovative he was in depicting stories of Mary and Jesus’s lives. And we meet a few friendly fish! SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Canzona ‘La Foresta’ (For 2 Trumpets and 2 Trombones – Rondeau)” composed by Giovanni Cavaccio. Performed by Michel Rondeau. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/33104-canzona-la-foresta/ https://musopen.org/music/performer/michel-rondeau/ Artwork information Miklós Boskovits (1935–2011), “Duccio di Buoninsegna/The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew/1308-1311,” Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/282 (accessed May 17, 2020). Maestà information https://smarthistory.org/duccio-maesta/ https://operaduomo.siena.it/en/sites/museum/ Duccio information https://www.britannica.com/biography/Duccio The post The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew by Duccio di Buoninsegna appeared first on A Long Look.

Salomon van Ruysdael absolutely nails the feeling of optimism, enjoyment, maybe even relief, as his fellow Dutch citizens ferry across a river on a soft spring evening. They’re setting out to explore their hard-won, brand new Dutch Republic. You might remember from a previous episode about their war for independence against Spain, they spent 80 years fighting for this moment. We’ll find out the ferry might have meant more than just transportation to these folks and how it came to the Gallery after a long restitution battle. SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “The Four Seasons, Op. 8” composed by Antonio Vivaldi. Performed by the Modena Chamber Orchestra https://musopen.org/music/performer/the-modena-chamber-orchestra/composer/antonio-vivaldi/ Artwork information Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., “Salomon van Ruysdael/River Landscape with Ferry/1649,” Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/139458 (accessed May 03, 2020). Salomon van Ruysdael information https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.18427.html Goudstikker restitution https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Jacques-Goudstikker-s-recovered-art-2452469.php https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/arts/design/22heir.html The post River Landscape with Ferry by Salomon van Ruysdael appeared first on A Long Look.

George Inness painted this scene of a train chugging through a bucolic landscape for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad to commemorate the opening of their big, new train roundhouse in Scranton PA. This hub would allow them to expand service from the Great Lakes to Hoboken NJ, right across the Hudson River from New York City. We’ll find out how George fell in love with painting and how his wife’s wisdom prevailed against his artistic pride! By the way, the Hoboken terminus played a role in another episode, Blue Morning by George Bellows. SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo Episode theme is “Over The Water, Humans Gather” by Doctor Turtle https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/album/free-turtle-archive-everything-cc-by-by-turtle Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.30776.html Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. “George Inness and the Hudson River School: The Lackawanna Valley.” The American Art Journal 2 (Fall 1970): 36-57, repro. George Inness information “George Inness Artist Overview and Analysis”. [Internet]. 2020. TheArtStory.org Content compiled and written by Sarah Ingram. Edited and revised, with Synopsis and Key Ideas added by Greg Thomas. Available from: https://www.theartstory.org/artist/inness-george/life-and-legacy/ First published on 30 Nov 2019. Updated and modified regularly [Accessed 02 Apr 2020] Inness, George. Life, Art, and Letters of George Inness. The Century Co., 1917. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066280367. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware,_Lackawanna_and_Western_Railroad The post The Lackawanna Valley by George Inness appeared first on A Long Look.

To be honest, I wasn’t sure how appropriate it would be to start another season of an arts podcast during the Covid-19 pandemic. But the incredibly creative work of so many museums, galleries and people around the world convinced me to join in. Because the Gallery is closed, I’ll be choosing artworks on their site that allow for zooming and panning to see details. As always, you’re invited to do the same! I’ll include a direct link below the image in each post. The pan and zoom features work best in a desktop or tablet browser. Looking forward to sharing new long (distance) looks with all of you and hope you stay safe and healthy. SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT) “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGEdNSNkZoo&feature=youtu.be The post Season 5 Begins appeared first on A Long Look.

The blossoms are starting to bloom, so “A Long Look” is going on spring break! If you’ve been enjoying the show I’d really appreciate if you would spread the word! Personal recommendations are one of the top ways people discover podcasts. Another way you can support the show is by leaving a review or rating on Apple Podcasts or your favorite app. And don’t forget, “A Long Look” can be enjoyed by listeners who are blind or have low vision! They can listen on their iOS devices using Apple Podcasts or the Overcast app. And transcripts are available starting with Season 3. So, if you have friends or relatives who are part of these communities, let them know too! Thanks to all of you who spend part of your day with “A Long Look”! If you have any questions or comments, I’d love to hear from you! The comments section is just below this post. SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo