It is believed that the Chief Curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Xavier Salomon, has been snagged by the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Salomon, who at 31 is regarded as a leading light in his field, will specialise in Italian painting, managed by Department head Keith Christiansen.
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Dulwich Picture Gallery, LondonThe family saga this exhibition tells in pictures might make a piquant novel about three generations of the American dream. It begins with the early-20th century illustrator NC Wyeth, whose boy's own paintings have a bright pride in manly virtues, a zest for open spaces. A century on, his grandson James Wyeth is still manning the battlements of the Alamo. Where old NC portrayed a New England fisherman standing monumentally abreast the choppy waves, James paints...
The Wyeth family's paintings may be populist hokum – but they still trump many things that British artists can doWhy is bad American art so much more interesting than bad British art? I couldn't help wondering at the exhibition The Wyeth Family at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Some may dispute the term "bad" for this lineage of realist painters whose most famous member, Andrew Wyeth, died in 2009. Undoubtedly he possessed real talent and imagination – at least in contrast to the other Wyeths, j...
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Published 06-Jul-10
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Daphne Todd's portrait of her dead mother has just won a major award. Jonathan Jones on the allure of the deathbedMouth hanging open, eyes peeping from frigid lids, arms thin and dry: Annie Mary Todd resembles (and I hope Daphne Todd, her daughter and portraitist, will forgive me for saying so) a medieval cadaver, torn from a tomb. The artist has said she found beauty in her mother's corpse, but it is still shocking stuff: emaciated, stiff and monstrously dead.Todd's macabre painting has won the...
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Published 23-Jun-10
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A new exhibition of paintings by three generations of the Wyeth family
generates little warmth. Rating: * ...
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Published 14-Jun-10
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In 1929, the documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White took a series of shots of the lobby of the First National Bank of Boston. Lowering and under-lit, these show, among the bank's marbled arches, murals painted five years earlier by Newell Convers Wyeth, known as "NC". ...
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Published 12-Jun-10
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From Wednesday 9, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London ...
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Published 07-Jun-10
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Dulwich Picture Gallery is showing more than 60 works by the Wyeth family. The exhibition has been loaned by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection. ...
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Published 04-Jun-10
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Dulwich Picture Gallery is showing more than 60 works by the Wyeth family. The exhibition has been loaned by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection. ...
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Published 04-Jun-10
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LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2011 with its first ever acquisition of a piece of contemporary sculpture, purchased and presented to the gallery by the Art Fund in honour of Dulwich?s bicentenary. The work, called Walking the Dog I, II,III, is by leading British sculptor Peter Randall-Page, who is currently enjoying rave reviews for his exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Inspired by the Gallery?s famous building and its three founders, it is the...
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Published 01-May-10
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