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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Valentine’s Day
The Feast of St. Valentine’s Day has been celebrated in many different ways for well over a thousand years. No matter how you may feel about our contemporary version of […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Judy Pfaff
Judy Pfaff is an innovator, acclaimed for her groundbreaking work in installation art during the 1970s. At a time when minimalism was prized, she approached spaces with maximal intention, filling […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Jess Perlitz
Jess Perlitz’s Burned Beast is a mismatched creature, resembling an ill-fitted hobby horse with visible seams and dowels. The basswood has been hand-chiseled and sanded, and burnt in the final […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: David Park
While he was a young artist, David Park experimented with the predominant style of the day: abstract expressionism. However, he made a decisive turn toward representation and broke away from […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Renée Sintenis
Happy New Year! Artists have long marked the occasion by sending original prints to their friends and family. In this example by German sculptor and printmaker Renée Sintenis (1888–1965), the […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: William H. Walker
Curiously, this photograph is one of only two in the Museum’s permanent collection that includes “New Year” in its title. Made by Portland-based photographer Will Walker, it depicts people selling […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi’s polished bronze A Muse is one of the anchors of the Museum’s collection of European modern art. The sculpture is a refined distillation of a woman’s facial features. […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Adolf Dehn
Are you ready for the holidays? In this lithograph, American artist Adolf Dehn (1895–1968) offers us a view of Christmas Eve in 1931. There are only a few small presents […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Édouard Vuillard
Artist Édouard Vuillard found inspiration from the people closest at hand, as seen in our current special exhibition, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, 1889–1900. […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Trude Parkinson
Emerging Zodiac is an exceptional example of Parkinson’s work and her dedicated interest in the human body in relation to the greater cosmos. The model of the dancing figure is […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Private Lives
After resetting the clocks and settling in for a dark winter, I am reminded of the many scenes of lamplight in the exhibition Private Lives: Home and Family in the […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Francisco de Goya
When it comes to bats, gremlins, witches, and bogeymen, it is hard to beat the graphic work of Francesco de Goya. In honor of #Halloween, I offer you four prints […]