2006



Fall 2006

Essays

James F. Cooper
A Museum Renewed: Worthy of a Nation

Francis Morrone
The New Morgan Library & Museum

Brian H. Peterson
Frederick Evans and the Theology of Light

Gail Leggio
Americans in Paris

James Lancel McElhinney
From Peale to Pixar:
Remembering How to Draw

Book Review

Review by William Gerdts
American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876
by Teresa A. Carbone, et al.

Exhibitions

Stephen Tanis
Forum Gallery
John Pence Gallery
Tapestries
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst



Summer 2006

Essays

James F. Cooper
A Reconsideration of History Painting

Frederick Turner
Beauty and Imitative Form

C.W. Westfall
Why We Need a Third Architectural Treatise

Gail Leggio
An American Collector’s Pre-Raphaelites

Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Mary Magdalene, American Style

James Romaine
What If the Whitney Biennial Really Mattered?

Book Reviews

Reviews by Stephen May
Painting Summer in New England
by Trevor Fairbrother
and
Three Books on Japonisme and The West

Review by Carol Iannone
From Flanders to Florence: The Impact of Netherlandish Painting, 1400-1500
by Paula Nuttall

Exibitions

Jeremy Lipking
Aquamanilia
Frederic Church, Winslow Homer and Thomas Moran
Hudson River School



Spring 2006

Essays

James F. Cooper
I Found It at the Movies

Frederick Turner
Dirt and Beauty:
Thoughts on Alan Berger’s Drosscape Wasting Land in Urban America

Rod Miller
Beauty, Beauty and Beauty:
Aesthetics, Passion or Wisdom?

Steven W. Semes
Le Violon d’Ingres:
Some Reflections on Music, Painting and Architecture

Theodore Prescott
Big Strokes:
The Authentic Picture

Gail Leggio
Vittal Spark:
The Landscapes of Samuel Palmer

Book Reviews

Review by Gail Leggio
Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in the Gilded Age
by Alice A. Carter

Exhibitions

Julio Valdez
Representational Artists
William Nicholson
Kate Lehman and Sarah Lamb
Glen Hansen



Winter 2006

Essays

James F. Cooper
Soleil and Noir:
Drawings of van Gogh and Redon

Frederick Turner
Disaster and the Arts

Arthur Mortensen
Writing with the Full Palette

Gail Leggio
Homegrown:
The Paradoxes of International Arts and Crafts

Book Review

Review by William Swetcharnik
A Broken Beauty
Edited by Theodore L. Prescott
Foreword by Bruce Herman

Exhibitions

Moving Pictures
American Illustration
Maine Legacy
Bernardo Torrens
David Bierk
Realism Invitational
Steven Assael