Tag: The Phillips Collection

Lucian Freud Portraits – American Art–Góngora/Picasso: Recent Museum Visits

From Lucian Freud Portraits at The Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth: –I was lucky to see this exhibit on the second to the last day as The Modern was the only North American stop for Lucian Freud Portraits. I think you either really appreciate Freud’s portraits or absolutely abhor them, and to me, Lucian…

Night Baseball

—Night Baseball, Marjorie Phillips, 1951 or 1952, oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 36 in., The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. This painting is another one of my favorites. Marjorie Acker Phillips, wife of Duncan Phillips, founder of the The Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C., painted this picture of Joe DiMaggio at bat during a…