This wild and colorful painting by Beauford Delaney seems to be caught in a life-or-death struggle with darkness. It’s insanely vivid. But at the same time, it’s wobbly, untethered. I saw it recently hanging next to a lovely Willem de Kooning at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Mass. […]
Perspective
Perspective | At the Art Institute of Chicago, Cecilia Beaux’s ‘Dorothea and Francesca’ paints a bravura portrait of sisters dancing
Cecilia Beaux painted “Dorothea and Francesca,” which is at the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1898. Almost seven feet high, it’s a beautiful study in pink and white, which Beaux sets against a dark background and the two girls’ auburn hair. When you get up close, you notice how much […]