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| Wednesday, July 21, 2010 | |
 | "A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon's Arizona" by Thomas Brent Smith and Donald J. Hagerty Western painter Maynard Dixon once pronounced "Arizona" "the magic name of a land bright and mysterious, of sun and sand, of tragedy and stark endeavor." "So long had I dreamed of it," he professed, "that when I came there it was not strange to me. Its sun was my sun; its ground was my ground." The California-born Dixon (1875-1946) first traveled to Arizona in 1900 to absorb what he believed was a vanishing West. (view more...) |
| Thursday, July 01, 2010 | |
 | "A Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss" by Edmund de Waal In the 1870s, Charles Ephrussi assembled a collection of 360 Japanese ivory carvings known as netsuke, some comical and some erotic, none of them larger than a matchbox. The scion of a rich, respected banking family that "burned like a comet" in Parisian and Viennese society, Ephrussi was an early supporter of the impressionists; Marcel Proust was briefly his secretary and used him as the model for the aesthete and lover Swann in Remembrance of Things Past.(view more...) |
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