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Paul Cézanne
Self-Portrait with a Beret
ca. 1898-99
Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Cézanne and America
by N.F. Karlins

Oct. 5, 2009
The Montclair Art Museum, a museum devoted to exhibiting American art, has had something up its sleeve for a while, for about ten years in fact. But now its riveting exhibition, "Cézanne and American Modernism," has arrived and has proven to be well worth the wait.

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N.F. Karlins Archives for 2009

Aug. 5, 2009	ARCADIA ALL OVER by N.F. Karlins "Arcadia" at ClampArt and "Desert Light" at Throckmorton Fine Art.

July 2, 2009	KALEIDOSCOPE QUILTS by N.F. Karlins A retrospective of Paula Nadelstern’s pieced quilts at the American Folk Art Museum.

June 8, 2009	A VISIT TO SHANGRI LA by N.F. Karlins Doris Duke’s Islamic treasure trove in Honolulu.

Apr. 8, 2009	CAILLEBOTTE IN BROOKLYN by N.F. Karlins "Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea" at the Brooklyn Museum.

Mar. 9, 2009	CÉZANNE AND BEYOND by N.F. Karlins A new exhibition celebrates the influence of the 19th-century artist on 18 of his 20th-century colleagues.

Feb. 17, 2009	DRAWING NOTEBOOK by N.F. Karlins "Master Drawings New York," plus major shows at the Met and the Morgan.

Jan. 15, 2009	OUT IS IN by N.F. Karlins Good news at the 2009 Outsider Art Fair.

Jan. 6, 2009	RICCIO AT THE FRICK by N.F. Karlins "Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze" at the Frick Collection.

N.F. Karlins Archives for 2008

Dec. 5, 2008	DRAWING NOTEBOOK by N.F. Karlins Six centuries of drawings of New York City at the New-York Historical Society.

Nov. 13, 2008	FOLK ART NOTEBOOK by N.F. Karlins James Castle, Thomas Chambers and Martín Ramírez.

Oct. 17, 2008	AN ODD COUPLE by N.F. Karlins "Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams" at the Smithsonian.

Sept. 8, 2008	AN ELEGANT RETREAT by N.F. Karlins The summer ends with a trip to the New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden.

Aug. 14, 2008	SUMMER SOCIAL by N.F. Karlins Political art in "Competing Ideologies" at D. Wigmore Fine Art. Plus, "Philip Guston: Works on Paper."

July 9, 2008	TREASURES OF HAJJI BABA by N.F. Karlins "Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors" at the New-York Historical Society.

June 17, 2008	TALKING PICTURES by N.F. Karlins "Glossolalia" at the Museum of Modern Art.

June 5, 2008	TREASURING CRETE by N.F. Karlins "From the Land of the Labyrinth" at the Onassis Cultural Center.

Apr. 24, 2008	JOE & NANCY by N.F. Karlins Joe Brainard’s "The Nancys" get a welcome showing at Tibor de Nagy.

Apr. 10, 2008	BEAUX VISAGE by N.F. Karlins American portraitist Cecilia Beaux gets a long-overdue reassessment.

Mar. 25, 2008	ADVENTURES IN PHOTOGRAPHY by N.F. Karlins A retrospective of the work of 20th-century photographer (and Surrealist muse) Lee Miller.

Mar. 4, 2008	FOLK HEROINE by N.F. Karlins A retrospective of the celebrated self-taught painter Malcah Zeldis.

Jan. 25, 2008	THE POLITICS OF PORCELAIN by N.F. Karlins The porcelain of the European Courts at Bard.

N.F. Karlins Archives for 2007

Dec. 18, 2007	DRAWING NOTEBOOK by N.F. Karlins Contemporary artists explore the Morgan Library collection in "Drawing Connections"

Dec. 12, 2007	EVERYDAY PARIS by N.F. Karlins Gabriel de Saint-Aubin was the Manet of the Enlightenment.

Oct. 19, 2007	FORCE OF CULTURE by N.F. Karlins Hidden depths in the drawings of Domenico Zindato.

Oct. 9, 2007	QUESTIONS OF CRAFT by N.F. Karlins "Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis" puts "conceptual craft" in the spotlight.

Aug. 16, 2007	GETTING INTIMATE AT YALE by N.F. Karlins Tokens of love and respect from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana.

July 30, 2007	BIRDS OF PARADISE by N.F. Karlins "Justin McCarthy" at the two-year old GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in downtown Reading, Pa.

June 28, 2007	POP TRIBAL by N.F. Karlins The Phantom makes a surprise appearance on fighting shields from Papua New Guinea.

May 17, 2007	LANDSCAPES OF LONGING by N.F. Karlins John Constable’s "Maria Bicknell Years" at Salander-O’Reilly.

Apr. 16, 2007	DIZZYING HEIGHTS by N.F. Karlins The Stendhal Syndrome at two Old Master exhibitions in London.

Mar. 20, 2007	SPIRITS IN THE WOOD by N.F. Karlins Art and artifacts made of wood and tree bark by Woodland Indians and Australian Aborigines.

Mar. 7, 2007	HORSES AND HISTORY by N.F. Karlins George Stubbs at the Frick, and "European Master Drawings" at the Morgan.

Feb. 15, 2007	FOLK ART NOTEBOOK by N.F. Karlins Martín Ramírez’s fractured "psychic maps." Plus, Thomas Burleson.

N.F. Karlins Archives for 2006

Dec. 22, 2006	NEW ORLEANS ODYSSEY by N.F. Karlins "Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum" at Wildenstein & Company.

Nov. 30, 2006	GOLDEN AGE by N.F. Karlins At the American Museum of Natural History, masterpieces of gold, from Iranian idols to Liz Taylor’s watch.

Nov. 14, 2006	CHINESE TREASURES by N.F. Karlins The art of the Liao at the Asia Society.

Nov. 2, 2006	PASSION AND PHOTOGRAPHY by N.F. Karlins The romantic and artistic partnership of Tina Modotti and Edward Weston.

Aug. 14, 2006	THE COSMIC MAYA by N.F. Karlins At the Met, art and rituals of the Mayan kings.

Aug. 2, 2006	3D by N.F. Karlins Nek Chand, "White on White," Aquamanila, Sheila Hicks, and "Sculpture."

July 7, 2006	PORTRAIT AMERICA by N.F. Karlins The Smithsonian reopens its American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery.

July 3, 2006	ROYAL REALISM by N.F. Karlins "Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789): Swiss Master" at the Frick Collection.

May 22, 2006	A DAY AT THE GETTY VILLA by N.F. Karlins The Getty Villa in Malibu is a delight.

Mar. 27, 2006	GOYA IN EXILE by N.F. Karlins The Spanish artist’s final experimental works, on view at the Frick Collection

Mar. 14, 2006	AMOROUS INTRIGUES by N.F. Karlins Dutch master Frans van Mieris at the National Gallery of Art.

Feb. 21, 2006	TREE OF LIFE by N.F. Karlins Unraveling the symbols of the past at the Ukrainian Museum.

Jan. 18, 2006	OUTSIDER 2006 by N.F. Karlins The Outsider Art Fair, plus shows at Hospital Audiences, Inc., and Hirschl & Adler Galleries.

Jan. 13, 2006	TREASURE ISLAND by N.F. Karlins "The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts" at the New York Public Library.

N.F. Karlins Archives for 2005

Dec. 8, 2005	DRAWING NOTEBOOK by N.F. Karlins "From Clouet to Seurat" and "David Milne, Watercolors" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Nov. 10, 2005	DRAWING NOTEBOOK by N.F. Karlins Vincent van Gogh, Egon Schiele and Alex Katz.

Oct. 12, 2005	PASSION FOR COLOR by N.F. Karlins Early American modernist Oscar Bluemner sought the spiritual in nature.

Sept. 21, 2005	Drawing Notebook by N.F. Karlins Five new talents in "Obsessive Drawing" at the American Folk Art Museum.

Aug. 30, 2005	Land of Ancient Tattoos by N.F. Karlins "Art of the Marquesas Islands" at the Metropolitan Museum.

Aug. 15, 2005	Drawing Notebook by N.F. Karlins French drawings in Baltimore.

July 13, 2005	DRAWING NOTEBOOK by N.F. Karlins Get ‘em while it’s hot -- drawings at the Frick, the Spanish Institute and Achim Moeller Fine Art.

June 29, 2005	THE THAMES GANG by N.F. Karlins Monet and company at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

June 13, 2005	FOLK ART NOTEBOOK by N. F. Karlins Art with a capital A at three exhibitions of self-taught artists.

April 7, 2005	TEENAGE TEMPEST by N. F. Karlins Kim McCarty's watercolors capture the erotic transformation of youth.

March 15, 2005	LATE REMBRANDT by N. F. Karlins "Rembrant's Late Religious Portraits" at the National Gallery of Art.

February 23, 2005	21ST-CENTURY FUNK by N. F. Karlins Robert Arneson and Kim Krans in New York.

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