A Long Look Podcast Karen Jackson

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