One Work: Rosa Bonheur’s “The Horse Fair”
In her art as in her life, Rosa Bonheur exceeded categorizations, as demonstrated by her sixteen-foot masterpiece portraying a lively scene with some twenty horses.
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One Work: Félix Vallotton’s “Intimacies”
Félix Vallotton's suite of ten woodblock prints probed moral and formal boundaries in 1800s Paris.
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Books: Chicago Confidential
"Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now" emphasizes how women artists and artists of color have contributed to the city's cultural life from its very beginnings and how activism has…
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Artist Aggrieved
A prominent and charismatic personality of his generation, R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007) was also a polarizing figure, commanding widespread art world admiration as well as a smaller quotient of critical…
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Regional Unreal
Grant Wood created an art of populist appeal, which, when probed for its underlying content, reveals troubling tensions and endless ambiguities.
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Elizabeth Malaska
In the six large paintings on view in Elizabeth Malaska's exhibition (all works 2017), female nudes in strange interiors smoke, sleep, sob, or stare at smartphones.
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Denzil Hurley
With the subtlest of moves, he weds abstraction to extra-aesthetic concern: Black Lives Matter protests come to mind, with the chilling recollection that the white-clad Klan has had a presence in the…
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Stephen Hayes
Eighteen landscape paintings (all 2016) made up the exhibition Stephen Hayes called “In the Hour Before,” most depicting unremarkable terrain. Roseburg (10-1-15) resembles a Daubigny only just begun…
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From the Archives: Representing Race
In our November 2011 issue, art historian Sue Taylor tackled the subject of Malvina Hoffman's infamous Field Museum bronzes in a book review of Marianne Kinkel's Races of Mankind: The Sculpture…
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Rae Mahaffey
In “So-and-So,” Rae Mahaffey presented 11 abstract paintings (all 2015) that signal an exciting high point in an already accomplished, 30-year career. Impeccably crafted, with beautiful, layered surfa…
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