Deep Blues

by Bill Traylor, Musée des beaux-arts (Berne, Suisse)., Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Allemagne)., Robert Hull Fleming Museum (Burlington, Vt., États-Unis).

1999 · Yale University Press

Bill Traylor, born into slavery in 1854, began to draw at the age of 82 in 1939 when he moved from the plantation where he was born to Montgomery, Alabama. He has become an almost mythical figure in the history of American folk art.

Manet/Velázquez

by Gary Tinterow, Geneviève Lacambre, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Musée d'Orsay

2003 · Metropolitan Museum of Art

Here approximately two hundred works by French and Spanish artists chart the development of this cultural influence and map a fascinating shift in the paradigm of painting, from Idealism to Realism, from Italy to Spain, from Renaissance to Baroque. Above all, these images demonstrate how direct contact with Spanish painting fired the imagination of nineteenth-century French artists and brought about the triumph of Realism in the 1860s, and with it a foundation for modern art."--BOOK JACKET.