Arthur Dove
The heart of Dove’s artistic philosophy was the articulation of “essences” that would transmit this sense of the spiritual in nature.... Learn More
100 Ideas That Changed Architecture
How the art and science of building evolved along the parallel axes of the philosophical and the pragmatic BY MARIA POPOVA “Art... Learn More
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
(born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect.... Learn More
Books from Gerald Peters Gallery: Max Webber
“Best known today for his monumental cubist and futurist images of Manhattan from the 1910’s, Weber also redefined traditional subjects of figures,... Learn More
Books from Gerald Peters Gallery: Modernist Themes In New Mexico
The artists who came and formed the tight-knit northern New Mexican artistic community that flourished between the wars and later were as... Learn More
Books from Gerald Peters Gallery: Santa Fe Art Colony
“The Santa Fe Art Colony was a loose-knit association of artists that flourished in the early part of the twentieth century and... Learn More
Martha Graham on the Life-Force of Creativity and the Divine Dissatisfaction of Being an Artist
“No artist is pleased… There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more... Learn More
The Knot in the Rosary
Rilke on How Difficulty Can Fuel Creativity and Why Feedback Poisons Art “All art is the result of one’s having been in... Learn More
Industrial Sublime: How New York City’s Bridges and Rivers Became a Muse of Modernism
How a city of contrasts inspired a generation of artists When the Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883, a cathedral thirteen years in... Learn More
D.H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, literary critic and painter. He published novels,... Learn More