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Ravi VarmaRavi Varma: art as enterprise in colonial India
The Hindu - May 10th, 2010 04:25
Ravi Varma's rise on the Indian art scene was meteoric. From the end of the 1870s until his death in 1906, at the age of 58, he was the best known and most sought after painter in India. But his fall from grace was as dramatic as his rise. Rupika Chawla's new book Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India is an insightful, pleasurable, and important contribution to our knowing the celebrated painter both as an individual artist and as an artistic enterprise.

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New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau
Emily Fisher Landau, the noted philanthropist and art collector, has made an important gift of 367 works of art to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Estimated to be worth between $50 ...
Mrs. James Ward Thorne (American, 1882-1966) commissioned the Tennessee Entrance Hall, 1835.
"It's something about being dominant over something that is so charming and diminutive," said Lindsay Mican Morgan, curator of an appealing exhibit of miniature room displays ...
Leo and His Circle by Annie Cohen-Solal
How did a dandified dilettante, after two decades of living (in good part) off his father-in-law’s money and his own personal charm, turn himself, at the age of fifty, ...
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Farm Ground in Color CountryNow Showing: In the Footsteps of Thomas Moran
May 14 - July 4, 2010
Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts
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PATRICK GRAHAM (b. 1943) DEPOSITION, STUDY 9, 2009-10 Mixed Media on Board 32 x 44 inchesTwo Significant Exhibitions at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles: PATRICK GRAHAM - fact of the matter & ARSHILE GORKY: sketchbook drawings
Release Date: 22 April 2010
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts will present two timely and concurrent exhibitions in Los Angeles opening May 22.  Monumental paintings and drawings by Patrick Graham, widely regarded as Ireland’s most important contemporary artist, will be featured in a major exhibition of Graham’s most ...

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