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| American University Park (Photo: James Hare/Wikimedia Commons) |
As the museum, located across the street from the university's main entrance on Massachusetts Avenue, states on its website:
"Nature has been explored throughout DC-based artist Lou Stovall’s 60-year career and its representation has evolved considerably. Stovall’s latest iteration, his 'vertical views,' take form in silkscreen monoprints reconstructed into three-dimensional collages."
At present two other exhibitions at the Katzen celebrate Japanese art. "Floating World: 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints" is part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. And "Thousand Regards" showcases more contemporary works by Japanese-born, New-York based artist Tomokazu Matsuyama.
All three exhibitions run through May 20.
(People who live in the heart of DC may view AU as a distant place beyond the National Cathedral, but it is located quite close to Tenleytown and not far from Friendship Heights metro stops, where shopping and dining options abound. Some dining options are also available not far from the AU campus on Massachusetts Avenue. This is also the location of the Spring Valley Crate & Barrel store which I find hard to resist visiting at least a couple times per year. Even if I lack the space/income to totally re-furnish my tiny flat with their huge American furniture, it is fun to check out the designs there, including lovely glassware made in Italy and fun Marimekko fabrics from Finland. I bought a Marimekko tablecoth there once which I ADORE. I am clearly plugging Marimekko products here, but they deserve a plug because they place a premium on design and quality. Nice fabrics can be art too!)
Dear ,
ReplyDeleteIt is a wonderfull exhibition,"The Steins Collect;Matisse,Picasso,Cezanne and the Parisian Avant Garde" .
And what a pleasure to see the portrait of Gertrude Stein by Riba-Rovira .Beside Tchelitchew and Balthus .
And you have an interesting article in Appollo London Revew about .And also in Artes Magazine from San Francisco where the exhibition was before .
And also the Preface Gertrude Stein wrote for his first exhibition in the Galerie Roquepine in Paris on 1945 .
Where we can read Gertrude Stein writing Riba-Rovira "will go farther than Cezanne...will succeed in where Picasso failed...I am fascinated " by Riba-Rovira Gertrude Stein tells us .
And you are you also fascinated indeed as Gertrude Stein ?
But Gertrude Stein spoke also in this same document about Matisse and Juan Gris .And we learn Riba-Rovira went each week in Gertrude Stein's saloon rue Christine .
With Edward Burns and Carl Van Vechten we can know Riba-Rovira did others portraits of Gertrude Stein .
But we do not know where they are ;and you do you know perhaps ?
With this wonderful portrait we do not forget it is the last time Gertrude Stein sat for an artist who is Riba-Rovira .
This exhibition presents us a world success with this last painting portrait before she died .
Both ,it is one of the last text where she gives her last art vision .As a light over that exhibition now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York .
Coming from San Francisco "Seeing five stories" to Washington and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York for our pleasure .
And the must is to see for the first time in the same place portraits by Picasso, Picabia, Riba-Rovira, Tall-Coat, Valloton .
You have the translate of Gertrude Stein's Riba-Rovira Preface on english Gertrude Stein's page on Wikipedia and in the catalog of this exhibition you can see in first place the mention of this portrait .And also other pictures Gertrude Stein bought him .
And you have another place where you can see now Riba-Rovira's works it is an exhibition in Valencia in Spain "Homenage a Gertrude Stein" by Riba-Rovira in Galleria Muro ,if you like art ...
Cesera