A Long Look Podcast

Well, here we are my friends, the 100th and final episode!  We go back to where it all started, the National Gallery of Art, for a look at one of Pieter de Hooch's idealized depictions of what a Dutch household was supposed to be. This cozy home may have been more wishful thinking than reality, though!  We'll find out how an embarrassing meeting helped create the Gallery! And I'll share final thoughts and thank yous and a few podcast recommendations I think you'll really like (listed below). If you want to follow along, you can find it here on the Gallery's site SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode Music "The Well Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869 - Prelude No. 19 in A major, BWV 864" composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/43466-the-well-tempered-clavier-book-i-bwv-846-869 "Hand in Space" by Quantum Jazz https://archive.org/details/jamendo-046377 Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1172-bedroom https://www.nga.gov/research/publications/online-editions/dutch-paintings-seventeenth-century-bedroom-16581660 Pieter de Hooch information "Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684" by Peter C. Sutton (Archive.org) https://archive.org/details/pieterdehooch16200sutt https://www.theartstory.org/artist/de-hooch-pieter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_de_Hooch "Public and Private Life in the Art of Pieter de Hooch" by Martha Hollander (JSTOR) Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) / Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art 51 (2000): 272–93. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24706499 Women in Dutch life "The Embarrassment of Riches" by Simon Schama (Bookshop.org) Gallery history https://www.nga.gov/about-us/our-history https://www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-gallery-of-art "America's National Gallery of Art" by Philip Kopper (Internet Archive) https://archive.org/details/americasnational0000kopp/americasnational0000kopp Jazz in the Garden https://www.nga.gov/calendar/jazz-garden "The Mill" by Rembrandt https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1201-mill The Object Podcast--Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org/the-object-podcast The Modern Art Notes Podcast https://manpodcast.com Tyler Greene presents in-depth discussions with artists about their practice and curators about current shows for a fascinating look at today's art world. Immaterial https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/series/immaterial-podcast The Metropolitan of Art's limited series podcast tells us surprising stories about the stuff art is made from. Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/bedroom-de-hooch

When critics hinted Maurice Prendergast was getting a little repetitive as he approached 50, he could've hung up his brushes. After all, he'd been pretty successful. Instead, he headed back to where it all began--Paris--and came away reinvigorated with "a new impulse," as he called it.   Today's episode takes us to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. We'll find out how an idea that started with Congress just before the Depression led to an official modern art museum on the National Mall!   SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/   Episode music "Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 - IX. King of the Hobbyhorse" by Robert Schumman Performed by Donald Betts.   "Children's Corner, L. 113 - III. Serenade of the doll" by Claude Debussy Performed by Edward Rosser Both courtesy of musopen.org   "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Artwork information  Beach at Saint-Malo https://iiif.si.edu/mirador/?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fmanifest%2FHMSG-HMSG-66.4131 (mirador zoom-in view)   https://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm%3Ahmsg_66.4131   Prendergast info https://www.theartstory.org/artist/prendergast-maurice/   https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5270.html   Maurice Prendergast. Wattenmaker, Richard J, and National Museum of American Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994.  https://archive.org/details/mauriceprenderga0000watt/page/n5/mode/2up    Maurice Prendergast : By the Sea. Homann, Joachim. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin college Museum of Art, 2013.   "The Early Art Education of Maurice Prendergast." Glavin, Ellen. Archives of American Art Journal 33, no. 1 (1993): 2–12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1557569. (JSTOR)   Hirshhorn info https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/the-founding-donor/   https://hirshhorn.si.edu/about-us/   https://siarchives.si.edu/history/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-garden Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden : The Collection. Brunet, Briana Feston, and Romare Bearden. Edited by Stéphane Aquin, Anne Reeve, and Sandy Guttman. New York: DelMonico Books, 2022.   Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/saint-malo/

So much better than Instagram! Pierre-Auguste Renoir invited 14 friends to lunch one summer--several lunches actually--and ended up creating this spectacular work of art.  In today's episode we find out about this happy group and that beautiful riverside restaurant they're clearly enjoying. And I'll tell you a pretty funny story about how Duncan Phillips was able to get this stunner for his new modern art museum, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC.  SHOW NOTES  "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode music "Parisian" by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 From Blue Dot Sessions: "Via Verre" https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/306837 "Symphony 40 In G Minor" https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/306840 "Etude 9 Stefan" https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/306841 Artwork information  https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/luncheon-boating-party https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2017-10-06-renoir-and-friends-luncheon-boating-party "The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A collection in the making" by Duncan Philips and David W. Scott. 1999. Edited by Erika D. Passantino. Washington, DC: Phillips Collection in association with Yale University New Haven. Sitters identified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party Holston papers William H. Holston papers, 1915-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Reel D-169 #1029-31 "Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Susan Vreeland https://bookshop.org/p/books/luncheon-of-the-boating-party-susan-vreeland/11716075?ean=9780143113522&next=t Maison Fournaise https://www.maisonfournaise.com  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_Fournaise Caillebotte episode https://alonglookpodcast.com/08-skiffs-caillebotte Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/boatingparty/  

No bows and arrows, no hunting buffalo on horseback. Walter Ufer saw first-hand that Native Americans in the 1920s weren't the romanticized caricatures from the old Wild West shows. In today's episode we're looking at "Callers" and find out how a city boy from Chicago ended up in Taos, NM and broke all the rules when it came to depicting his friends and neighbors as real people trying to balance the modern world with tradition. SHOW NOTES  "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode Music "Free Guitar Riding Blues" and "Follow the Little Creek" by Loco Lobo. Courtesy of Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/completly-free/free-guitar-riding-blues-f-014 https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/verona/follow-the-little-creek-faster-id-1386 "Clusticus the Mistaken" by Doctor Turtle. Courtesy of the artist https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/album/free-turtle-archive-everything-cc-by-by-turtle Artwork information https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/callers-24394 Artist info https://americanart.si.edu/artist/walter-ufer-4912 https://www.historynet.com/walter-ufer/?f https://cometatomic.com/walter-ufer-a-remarkable-journey-through-art-and-activism/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ufer https://www.illinoisart.org/essays/walter-ufer#_ftn23 Ufer letter https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll1/id/1930 Taos Artists Society "The Taos Society of Artists : Masters & Masterworks" by Amy Scott (Internet Archive) https://archive.org/details/taossocietyofart0000scot Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/callers-ufer/

While I'm taking a break, I thought you might enjoy this encore presentation of a popular episode from 2019—the gorgeous Woman Holding a Balance at the National Gallery of Art. If you want to follow along, you can find it at alonglookpodcast.com/vermeer.  And make sure to stick around to the end for a special announcement! SHOW NOTES  "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode theme is "Caro Mio Ben in C Major" by Giuseppe Giordani, performed by Joel Meza. https://soundcloud.com/joel-meza-1/caro-mio-ben-in-c-major "Women Holding a Balance" information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.1236.html https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/vermeer-woman-holding-a-balance.html Vermeer information https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1951.html "Essential Vermeer" website (extensive amount of info!)  https://www.essentialvermeer.com Widener information "Dutch Paintings at the National Gallery of Art: The Untold Stories behind the Acquisitions of the Rembrandts, Vermeers, and Other Treasures in the Collection" (audio) https://www.nga.gov/global-site-search-page.html?searchterm=wheelock+audio RECOMMENDED READING "Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting" by Adriaan Waiboer, et al. Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, 2017. Exhibit brochure https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/exhibitions/pdfs/2017/vermeer-brochurel.pdf "Vermeer: Faith in Art" by Daniel Arasse Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/encore-woman-balance-vermeer/  

And you thought YOU were gonna have a lot of holiday company! Poor Mary, who's only given birth a week or so ago, now faces this onslaught of unexpected visitors in today's episode.  We'll find out who exactly all those folks are, their connection to one of the most powerful families in Europe, and what's up with the peacock. Pretty sure that wasn't one of the animals at the Nativity... SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode music "Joy to the World" and "We Three Kings" performed by John Sayles http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/holidaymusic.htm "Mass for 4 Voices," composed by William Byrd, performed by Ensemble Morale. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/44138-mass-for-4-voices "Suite in F Major" composed by Michael Praetorius. Performed by Michel Rondeau. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/43633-suite-in-f-major Artwork information  https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.41581.html https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/angelico-lippi-the-adoration-of-the-magi.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoration_of_the_Magi_(Fra_Angelico_and_Filippo_Lippi) https://www-jstor-org.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/20074684?seq=6 (JSTOR article, may need to log in through your library) Magi gifts https://uscatholic.org/articles/202212/why-did-the-magi-bring-jesus-gold-frankincense-and-myrrh https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jesus/why-did-the-magi-bring-gold-frankincense-and-myrrh/ Medici information https://www.britannica.com/topic/Medici-family Karen's favorite illuminated manuscript "The Hours of Catherine of Cleves" https://www.themorgan.org/collection/Hours-of-Catherine-of-Cleves Recommended Reading: "Fra Angelico" by Laurence Kanter and Pia Palladino. Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2005. Pgs 278-283. Explains Magi's visitation. (Free PDF) https://cdn.sanity.io/files/cctd4ker/production/f9c70388da067f22ea0e43e5e512fb5f8d2b0d33.pdf Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/adoration-magi-angelico-lippi/  

Today's episode is all about relaxing, taking a little break after a long year and before the holidays hit. So I offer you a quiet beach at the Jersey Shore in this serene painting by William Trost Richards.  We'll find out how this Philadelphia-born artist embraced the idea of nature and art as keys to a better life and his connection to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. Thomas Cole and the Corcoran are key parts of the story, so here are previous episodes about them:  "A Pastoral Visit" tells the story of the founding of this influential museum and "The Voyage of Life: Childhood" is one of Cole's dramatic allegorical paintings. SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode Music "Morning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 "Database Of Problems, Rolodex Of Lies" by Doctor Turtle https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/album/free-turtle-archive-everything-cc-by-by-turtle Artwork information  https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.195170.html William Trost Richards information https://chrysler.org/exhibition/seascapes-by-william-trost-richards/ https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.2710.html New York Times article on Richards https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/arts/design/william-trost-richards-at-national-academy-museum.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare "William Trost Richards: American Landscape & Marine Painter" by Linda S. Ferber https://archive.org/embed/williamtrostrich0000ferb (archive.org) "Niagara" by Frederic Edwin Church https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.166436.html Episode on the Corcoran Gallery  "A Pastoral Visit" Episode on Thomas Cole "The Voyage of Life: Childhood" Transcript is available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/coast-new-jersey

Welcome back! I hope you all had a great summer. We'll be spending the rest of 2024 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, starting off with a stunning portrait of a red-headed Irish beauty that shocked London society. We'll find out who she is and how she was much more than a pretty face.  Then we'll learn about the very mercurial artist she had to put up with, James McNeill Whistler and the chaos he caused in his own life and others!   SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" opening and closing themes are by Ron Gelinas:  "Ascension" https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo and "Easy" https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs Episode music "Chopin Waltz in A Minor, B. 150." Performed by Aya Higuchi String Quartet no. 2 in B minor - II. Minuetto moderato." Composed by Joseph Miroslav Weber, Performed by Steves Bedroom Band. Courtesy of musopen.org Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.12198.html https://www.nga.gov/features/joanna-hiffernan-the-white-girl.html https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.12198.html#relatedpages https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/woman-in-white.html https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/whistler-symphony-in-white-no-1-the-white-girl.html https://www.nga.gov/blog/how-whistler-painted-white-in-full-color.html James McNeill Whistler info https://www.theartstory.org/artist/whistler-james-abbott-mcneill Joanna Hiffernan Bio https://www.dib.ie/biography/hiffernan-joanna-jo-a9605 The Peacock Room https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/interactives/peacock-room/making-the-peacock-room/ Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/symphony-in-white/

"A Long Look" returns with new episodes soon! Meanwhile, I've been looking down the road trying to figure out the future of the show and realized I've been doing all the talking for the past 7 years! So now, I'd like to hear from you. I've put together a short audience survey to find out your thoughts and experience with "A Long Look." To be honest, I'm deciding whether or not to continue the show and your feedback will really help. You can find it at alonglookpodcast.com/survey and it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes. It's a Google form but you DO NOT need a Goole account to fill it out. The deadline is Nov. 15. I look forward to hearing from you and thanks so much! SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/  

Well, we've reached the end of our brief tour of the Smithsonian American Art Museum! I hope you've enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun getting to share this unique place with you and introduce you to some artists you might not have heard of.  I'll tell you about the two-for-one experience of visiting the museum and its hidden gems. And I have...thoughts...about the stories it tells. SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT BELOW) "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Smithsonian American Art Museum https://americanart.si.edu/ Luce Foundation Center for American Art https://americanart.si.edu/visit/saam/luce Lunder Conservation Center https://americanart.si.edu/art/conservation National Portrait Gallery https://npg.si.edu/ Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/american-art-finale

In today's episode we look at "Floating Clouds" by Hisako Hibi, one of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated in prison camps on the West Coast during WWII. Paintings like this served as the only visual record of life in the camps as well as a way for prisoners to deal with the harsh conditions. We'll find out how she and her family were able to build a new life after the war and how she persevered through her art and with the help of fellow immigrants.  SHOW NOTES  "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ EPISODE MUSIC "Timeless One" by Solas Composer https://soundcloud.com/solas_composer/timeless-one "Eastern Thought" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html Artwork information Hisako Hibi https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/floating-clouds-119617 Detention camp paintings https://janm.emuseum.com/groups/hisako-hibi-collection/results Hisako Hibi info https://americanart.si.edu/artist/hisako-hibi-33445 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisako_Hibi https://americanart.si.edu/blog/japanese-american-artists-hibi https://www.becomingvisible.si.edu/stories/hisako-hibi https://womenshistory.si.edu/blog/hisako-hibis-work-artist-was-almost-lost Exhibition info Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/floating-clouds  

Just in time for your Memorial Day travels, here's an extended episode celebrating the anniversary of Impressionism! We take another look at three of the originals: Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Berthe Morisot. Her painting "The Mother and Sister of the Artist" is featured in the upcoming blockbuster "Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment" opening Sept. 8 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Find out more on their site. SHOW NOTES Opening theme: "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs Episode Music: OFFENBACH CAN-CAN by Light Symphony Orchestra; Offenbach https://archive.org/details/78_offenbach-can-can_light-symphony-orchestra-offenbach_gbia0309744b EPISODES  Monet--Grainstack Show notes and transcript https://alonglookpodcast.com/grainstack/ Pissarro--Place du Carrousel Show notes and transcript https://alonglookpodcast.com/place-du-carrousel-by-camille-pissarro/ Morisot--Mother and Sister of the Artist Show notes and transcript https://alonglookpodcast.com/the-mother-and-sister-of-the-artist-by-berthe-morisot/ EXHIBITIONS "Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment" National Gallery of Art (Sept 8-Jan. 19) https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2024/paris-1874-impressionist-moment.html "Mary Cassatt at Work" Philadelphia Museum of Art (May 18-Sept. 8) https://press.philamuseum.org/mary-cassatt-at-work/ "The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse" Dallas Museum of Art (thru Nov. 3) https://impressionistrevolution.dma.org/p/1 SUGGESTED READING "Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Susan Vreeland https://bookshop.org/p/books/luncheon-of-the-boating-party-susan-vreeland/11716075?ean=9780143113522 Transcript is available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/impressionism

It's starting to get warm out so the seaside's on my mind! In the latest episode we visit Appledore on the Isles of Shoals with American painter Childe Hassam. This group of islands off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine was a long-time vacation fave for this Boston artist.  We'll find out how he fused the color and energy of artists like Claude Monet and Camille Pissaro with uniquely American settings like this stunning rocky New England shoreline. And the ruckus he and some of his fellow painters started to create a brand-new kind of American art! Transcript is available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/appledore  

Henry Sturgis Drinker and Cecilia Beaux had a complicated history but that didn't get in the way of Cecilia making him the subject of one of her best portraits. In today's episode, we'll find out how Henry was just one example of the lengths this renowned Gilded Age artist went to pursue her dream of an art career. And how her talent, hard work--and the help of a good friend--got her started.   SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/   Episode music "Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 21 'Sunday'" by Frédéric Chopin Courtesy of the European Archive and musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/82-preludes-op-28/   "Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 17 'Scene on the Place de Notre-Dame'" by Frédéric Chopin Performed by Ivan Ilic. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/82-preludes-op-28/   "String Quartet no. 12 in F major 'American', Op. 96" by Antonín Dvořák. Courtesy of the European Archive and musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/4887-string-quartet-no-12-in-f-major-american-op-96/   Artwork information https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/man-cat-henry-sturgis-drinker-1635   Les Dernier Jours d'Enfance https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/les-derniers-jours-d-enfance   Cecilia bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Beaux#cite_ref-16   "Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in the Gilded Age" by Alice A. Carter. https://archive.org/details/ceciliabeauxmode0000cart   "Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter" by Sylvia Yount.  https://archive.org/details/ceciliabeauxamer00beau   Henry Sturgis Drinker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sturgis_Drinker   Transcript is available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/cecilia-beaux/

Putting ordinary people in odd, unsettling surroundings was the specialty of Hughie Lee-Smith. In today's episode we look at his "Confrontation" from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  We''ll find out how an encounter with Italian Surrealism and a forbidden childhood carnival forged a visual language he used to depict universal feelings of loneliness, separation, and alienation in post-war America. SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode music: "Passing Fields" by Quantum Jazz Courtesy of Free music Archive (CC BY-SA) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Quantum_Jazz/End_of_Line/05_-_Quantum_Jazz_-_Passing_Fields/ "Ghost Carousel" by LAURENT BUCZEK Courtesy of Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/build-up-scenes-ghost-carousel-155303/ "Between Worlds" by Tobias Webster (CC-BY) http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/tobias_weber/56664 "Shades of Spring" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artwork information  https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/confrontation-78130 Artist information Biography Hughie Lee-Smith by Leslie King-Hammond and Aiden Faust. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2010. Hughie Lee-Smith papers, c 1890-2007, bulk 1931-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. https://americanart.si.edu/artist/hughie-lee-smith-6317 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughie_Lee-Smith https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/04/nyregion/art-a-painter-finally-gets-his-due.html https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/12/nyregion/art-review-a-painter-s-evolution-visual-and-political.html Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/confrontation

Merry Christmas! For this year's holiday episode we're looking at this kind of unusual Nativity scene jammed packed with the detail those Northern European Renaissance artists just loved! We'll find out how the birth of Christ went from early spring to late December, the story of the arch, and the mystery of the missing gold platter! SHOW NOTES "A Long Look" opening theme is "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and the closing music is "Bring a Torch Jeannette Isabella" performed by John Sayles http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/holidaymusic.htm Episode music: "Away in a Manger" and "Angels We Have Heard on High" performed by John Sayles  http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/holidaymusic.htm "Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem" and "Teller of the Tales" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artwork information  https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.47.html "Early Netherlandish Painting"  https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/early-netherlandish-painting.pdf "Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges"  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Petrus_Christus_Renaissance_Master_of_Bruges "Petrus Christus in Renaissance Bruges : An Interdisciplinary Approach" https://archive.org/details/petruschristusin0000unse/page/167/mode/1up How Dec. 25 became Christmas The Christmas Story in Art  https://www.history.com/news/why-is-christmas-celebrated-on-december-25 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/12/25/why-is-christmas-on-dec-25-a-brief-history-lesson-that-may-surprise-you/ Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2865  

Just in time for Thanksgiving, we take a look at this sumptuous feast by one of the stars of still-life painting, Pieter Claesz. We'll find out three hints that tell us who might have owned this fabulous artwork and the amazing connection between the Dutch and one of your favorite ballpark treats!   If you want to follow along, you can find it here on the Gallery's site. SHOW NOTES  "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode music "Violin Concerto in F major, RV 293 'Autumn' - III Allegro" composed by Antonio Vivaldi. Performed by John Harrison. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/14910-the-four-seasons-op-8/ "Meadow Waltz" by Keys of Moon Music https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon/meadow-waltz-classical-piano-orchestra-free-download "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" performed by Kevin MacLeod https://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100313 Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.132271.html Artist information https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.18426.html "Pieter Claesz : Master of Haarlem Still Life" by P. Biesboer, Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2004. History of still life https://mymodernmet.com/what-is-still-life-painting-definition/ "The Dutch Gamepiece" by Scott A. Sullivan  Dutch cuisine "The Sensible Cook : Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World" by Peter G. Rose. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 1989. For a transcript, visit https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2825

In today's episode we're looking at "Childhood" by Thomas Cole. It's the first of a series of enormous paintings he did called "The Voyage of Life."  We'll find out how Cole used this series to push the boundaries of landscape painting from just pretty pictures to something much more meaningful. And we'll learn why the Gallery's version isn't the original!  SHOW NOTES  "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ Episode music:  "Scenes from Childhood," Op. 15, Robert Schumman https://musopen.org/music/2326-scenes-from-childhood-op-15/ "His Last Share of the Stars" by Doctor Turtle https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/album/free-turtle-archive-everything-cc-by-by-turtle Artwork information  https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52450.html https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/cole-the-voyage-of-life-childhood.html https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-19th-century-part-1.pdf Thomas Cole information https://thomascole.org/biography-of-thomas-cole/ https://thomascole.org/wp-content/uploads/FINAL-PDF-for-Website-2022.pdf Thomas Cole National Historic Site  https://thomascole.org/ For a transcript visit https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2804  

Autumn is a season of change, so it seemed like the perfect time to announce a few changes happening with the show!  First, I've got new music! The current theme did the job when I started way back in 2017, but it's time for a refresh so I went with a couple tunes that are welcoming and relaxed, but a little funky. I hope you like it! I'm also moving to a monthly release schedule. These changes will start with the next episode, which drops soon.  Listen below for more details! I hope you enjoy the new sound and if you do, it would mean so much if you spread the word! Personal recommendations are one of the top ways people discover podcasts. Just send folks here or tell them to search for "A Long Look" wherever they get their podcasts. SHOW NOTES  "A Long Look" themes are "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and "At the Cafe with You" by Onion All Stars https://pixabay.com/users/onion_all_stars-33331904/ For a transcript visit https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2772

This work by Edouard Vuillard reminds me of the old Magic Eye images that ran in the Sunday comics back in the '90s. You'd be presented with a dense, colorful pattern and have to figure out what the hidden image was. I could never do it.  In today's episode we'll find out how he and a group of young artists called the Nabis threw out the rules of traditional painting to create something more personal that made the viewer have to do some of the work of figuring out what's going on. If you want to follow along, you can find it here on the Gallery's site. SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT BELOW) "A Long Look" opening and closing themes are by Ron Gelinas "Ascension" https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo and "Easy" https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs Episode theme is "Gnossienne" composed by Erik Satie. Performed by Edward Rosser. Courtesy of musopen.org  Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52238.html Vuillard self-portrait https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.93000.html Vuillard info https://www.theartstory.org/artist/vuillard-edouard/ https://artuk.org/discover/stories/douard-vuillard-nabi-and-intimist "Bonnard to Vuillard: Intimate Poetry: The Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant" by Elsa Smithgall, et al. New York, New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2019. "Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance : Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels."  Salomon, Antoine., Guy. Cogeval, and Mathias. Chivot. Vol. 1, Milano: Skira, 2003. Nabis info https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dcpt/hd_dcpt.htm https://smarthistory.org/nabis-decorative-art/ Negative space trick https://mymodernmet.com/negative-space-definition/ For a transcript visit https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2728