Aaron and I had a fun weekend together. We added it up and on Saturday, between my class and work and his work, we managed to spend a whole 6 conscious hours together.
As part of those six hours we visited the National Gallery of Art for the George De Forest Brush show. Brush was an American painter trained in the French academy. He returned from France and spent some time living in Wyoming and Montana with the Arapahoe, Shoshone and Crow. He eventually left the West, returned to NY city to set up a studio. His work has almost never left the hands of private collectors and this was the first public show. Brush was suspicious of the modernization and its production of mass produced, cheap goods which he worried was destructive to the environment and art. Most of his paintings contain messages about conservation and preservation. The National Gallery has set up a really good website for the show so you can see most of the work here.
2 comments:
I like those paintings. He was an anti-modernist. See, I'm not such a modernist snob after all! B
What a beautiful painting! I've never heard of him. I'm intrigued now. You've just given me a new project for the day.
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