Urban Visionaries: Smokehouse Associates
March 29, 2023
Interview with Eric Booker by David Ebony The late 1960s and early ’70s was a time of social upheaval, civil unrest and protests around the world, including in the United… READ MORE
Tag: American Art
The Rose and the Re-Invention of Postwar American Art
May 3, 2022
Elizabeth Ferrell– Episode 4 of Netflix’s Inventing Anna (2022) includes a scene inside the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Featured prominently in the background is Jay… READ MORE
Ep. 85 – The Life and Art of Bob Thompson
October 28, 2021
Listen to this conversation with Diana K. Tuite, the Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Colby College Museum of Art. Her exhibition Bob Thompson: This House Is… READ MORE
James Castle’s Silent Universe
September 30, 2021
Interview with John Beardsley by David Ebony Today, James Castle (1899-1977) is renowned for the richly nuanced surface textures of his gray-scale drawings, his moody and mystical views of the… READ MORE
Ep. 84 – Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful
August 18, 2021
Listen to this conversation with Chrysler Museum of Art curator Seth Feman and Columbus Museum curator Jonathan Frederick Walz—we discuss the art and life of the extraordinary American artist Alma… READ MORE
Americans in Spain
August 9, 2021
Brandon Ruud— The catalogue for the exhibition Americans in Spain: Painting and Travel, 1820–1920 was a labor of love, a treat to produce, and, especially, a visual feast thanks to the… READ MORE
Ep. 83 – A Conversation About American Artist Joseph E. Yoakum
July 27, 2021
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk about the life and drawings of the self-taught artist Joseph E. Yoakum with the Art Institute of Chicago‘s Mark… READ MORE
Swing Landscape: A Conversation on 1930s Abstract Mural Paintings
March 31, 2021
Last year Yale University Press was pleased to publish two illuminating studies of 1930s public murals: Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural (selected as Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue of 2020… READ MORE
Annie Swan Coburn—Mystery Collector
December 3, 2020
Gloria Groom— In April 1932, the Art Institute of Chicago, under the auspices of the Antiquarian Society, showed some thirty-nine Impressionist and modern paintings, plus works on paper by American,… READ MORE
Horace Pippin’s Self Portraits
February 22, 2020
Anne Monahan — Horace Pippin (1888-1946) painted two self-portraits in the 1940s on his way to becoming the decade’s most successful black artist. Both evince an indifference to illusionistic perspective… READ MORE
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