Nicholas Fox Weber's Blog, page 9
August 11, 2014
August 10, 2014
Rilke on van Gogh
“Rilke was capitalizing on the idea generated by van Gogh that what we see is a reflection, that there is no absolute
truth, that all perception is filtered through the lens of our minds.”
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August 6, 2014
The Night Café, Vincent van Gogh
Le café de nuit (The Night Café),1888
Bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. Yale University
Stephen was now, especially compared to most people at the low ebb of the Depression, immensely rich. When he saw an artwork he liked, he didn’t have to think twice about whether he could afford it, and the same year his elder brother left him a fortune he bought van Gogh’s Night Café, Renoirs’s Waitress at Duval’s Restaurant, a Degas pastel, and a Cézanne of Madame Cézanne, all from the Museum of Modern At in Moscow.
–Nicholas Fox Weber, The Clarks of Cooperstown
Published by Alfred A Knopf
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August 5, 2014
August 4, 2014
Lehmbruck’s Standing Woman
Lehmbruck’s Standing Woman is a colossal piece that represents a woman draped only from mid-thigh downward. True to the German Expressionism of which it is an exemplary work, her elongated body suggests a noble struggle. But whereas a lot of works from that movement have a tortured aspect, Lehmbruck’s is lovely and celebrative; this has more unabashed joy than most of the sculptor’s work….It was big news that Stephen Carlton Clark had presented the bronze to the Modern. The gift was heavily publicized, with the work reproduced in The New York Times and a number of well-read magazines. Stephen, who generally did things anonymously, probably wanted his name attached to it for a reason.
–Nicholas Fox Weber, The Clarks of Cooperstown
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