THE MAGAZINE

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017

 
COVERS:
San Antonio interior with Flags I by Jasper Johns and self-portrait by Edward H. Barnard. Photograph by Susan Sully.
Detail of Central Park Winter by Adolf Dehn, 1957. Collection of Sarah and Elie Hirschfeld.
 

Editor’s letter

Critical thinking / Difficult issues

Matters of taste
Glenn Adamson

Current and coming

Personal space

Art therapy
Joan R. Brownstein

Talking antiques

Auction notes

On books

Sammy Dalati

Events

Sammy Dalati

Endnotes

Eleanor H. Gustafson

 

Features

 

Growing interests at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum

Suzanne Findlen Hood, Kimberly Smith Ivey, and Jan Gilliam
 

Life at the top

Edgar Degas and the Paris millinery trade
Simon Kelly
 

Living with antiques

An inspired mix of furniture and art in two Texas residences
Elizabeth Pochoda
 

Who are you calling a tramp?

A fresh perspective on tramp art
Laura M. Addison
 

Missing pieces

Scholars hope to reunite Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series
Elizabeth Hutton Turner
 

Gotham ink

An exhibition examines the long, colorful history of tattooing in New York
Cristian Petru Panaite
 

Lone star

How Ima Hogg brought modern art to Texas
David B. Warren
 

When the Bauhaus came to
Monte Albán

Josef and Anni Albers as collectors
Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye
 

Man of distinction

Celebrating Carl Gustaf Tessin, art patron extraordinaire
James Gardner
 

Regarding Henri Matisse

How the French master influenced American art
Gail Stavitsky
 

Beyond George Washington

New developments at the Morris-Jumel Mansion
Carol Ward
 

Nurturing the spirit

Folk art and the designs of Alexander Girard
Jochen Eisenbrand
 

Triple play

A magnificent eighteenth-century Japanese triptych is reunited
Thomas J. Loughman