Episode No. 17 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features curator and historian Elizabeth A. Easton and artist Anne Appleby.
Easton is the curator of “Snapshot: Painters and Photography: Bonnard to Vuillard.” The exhibition, organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is on view at the Phillips through May 6. The Yale University Press-published catalogue is top-notch.
The exhibition spotlights six artists – Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Henri Riviere and George Hendrik Breitner – and examines how their use of the hand-held Kodak camera, which was introduced in 1888, informed their work. Even more interesting: The exhibitions shows how their painting informed the pictures they took.
Easton was the first elected president of the Association of Art Museum Curators, the co-founder and director of the Center for Curatorial Leadership and the former chair of European painting and sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum.
On the second segment, Anne Appleby discusses her most recent paintings, on view at New York’s Danese gallery through March 10. Appleby’s work is in the collections of many museums, including SFMOMA, the Albright-Knox and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Air date: March 1, 2012.
Pierre Bonnard, Ker‐Xavier Roussel and Edouard Vuillard, Venice, 1899.
Maurice Denis, Marthe offering Bernadette a bunch of grapes, Le Pouldu, September 15, 1890.
Maurice Denis, Noële and Her Mother, 1896.
Maurice Denis, Two girls, paddling in the sea, swinging little Madeleine, Perros‐Guirec, 1909.
Maurice Denis, On the Beach (Two Girls against the Light), 1892.
Henri Rivière, The Eiffel Tower: Painter on a knotted rope along a vertical girder, below an intersection of girders, 1889.
Henri Rivière, Plate 36, The Painter in the Tower, from “Thirty‐Six Views of the Eiffel Tower,” 1888–1902.
Edouard Vuillard, The Newspaper, c. 1896−98.
Edouard Vuillard, Thadée and Misia Natanson in the salon, rue St. Florentin, 1898
Edouard Vuillard, Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist, 1893.
Edouard Vuillard, Madame Vuillard and Romain Coolus, c. 1905.
Pierre Bonnard, Intimacy, 1891.
Edouard Vuillard, Garden at Vaucresson, 1920-1936. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Edouard Vuillard, Place Vintimille, 1911. Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Anne Appleby, Highline Cottonwood, 2008.
Anne Appleby, Faded Sweet Pea, 2008.
Anne Appleby, Sweet Pea, 2008.
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