2009

Fall 2009



Essays

James F. Cooper
Sculptors of the American Renaissance
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French

Gail Leggio
Visual Narrative
Tissot’s Life of Christ

Michael Bergmann, with Daniel Bergmann
American Gothic
The Creation Museum, as Viewed by a Lover of Gothic Cathedrals

Frederick Turner
The Colors of Vietnam

Katherine E. Manthorne
Hudson River
Global Thoroughfare

Exhibitions

Wadsworth Atheneum
Home on the Hudson
Heroes in Ancient Greece
Landscapes of Tom Uttech
John Pence Gallery
Museo de Arte de Ponce

Poetry

William Mullen
Burnham’s Mandalas

Arthur Brown
Philosopher

Summer 2009



Essays

James F. Cooper
Steven Assael
Allegorical Journeys

Frederick Turner
Art and Economics

Alvin Holm 
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Craft, Imagination and Renaissance Wisdom

David Smith 
Kate Doyle
Myth, Dreams and the Real

Gail Leggio
Luis Meléndez and the Art of Still Life

Alison Armstrong
The Casual Sublime
Conversations with Robert Kipnisse

George Sakkal
The Problem with Postmodern Art Theory
The Visual versus the Conceptual

Exhibitions

Stephen Scott Young
Maureen Mullarkey
Jacob Collins
Richard Mayhew
Javier Marín

Poetry

Lisa Williams
Virtuosity

Spring 2009



Essays

James F. Cooper
Learning from Old Master Drawing

Frederick Turner
Value, Meaning and the Economic Crisis

Gail Leggio 
The Wordly Painters of Venice

Stephen May 
Donald De Lue

Brian H. Peterson        
Shopkeepers, Prizefighters, Waitresses and Thieves

Book Review

Review by Gail Leggio
Robert Vickrey: The Magic of Realism
by Philip Eliasoph

Exhibitions

Ephraim Rubenstein
Robert Taplin
Bessie Potter Vonnoh
David Kassan
John Moore
Pierre Bonnard

Poetry

Dana Gioia
The Road 56

Jeanne Marie Beaumont
The Room and the View

Peter Filkins
Constable’s Clouds

Awards

Dana Gioia

Winter 2009



Essays

James F. Cooper
The Legacy of Philippe de Montebello

Donald Kuspit
George Tooker
Iconoclastic Traditionalist

Gail Leggio                
The Vitality of the Icon Tradition

Frederick Turner        
Epic Arts

James Matthew Wilson
Unleashed from the Exemplar
The Fate of Narrative in Modern Art

Alison Armstrong
Explorations in Light
Affinities of Color and Music

Exhibitions

The Onassis Cultural Center
Koo Schadler
Andrew Jones
Sheila Hicks
Laura Karetzky

Poetry

F.D. Reeve
For a New Year