A Long Look Podcast

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

Isabella d'Este knew a thing or two about bad luck. A philandering husband who was out of town most of the time, the loss of three children, and oh yeah, running the government of Mantua while protecting it from invading armies while hubby was away! But she also knew Fortune can swing both ways. Our next stop is the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA where we find out why this majorly influential Renaissance Woman may have been the one to hire Dosso Dossi to paint this mysterious scene.

SHOW NOTES “A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is “Suite in F Major” composed by Michael Praetorius. Performed by Michel Rondeau. Courtesy of musopen.org https://musopen.org/music/43633-suite-in-f-major/

Artwork information https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/822/dosso-dossi-giovanni-di-niccolo-de-lutero-allegory-of-fortune-italian-about-1530/

A Recovered ‘Fortune’ : Renaissance Work Cost $1,000, Sold for $4 Million https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-29-ca-849-story.html

Dosso Dossi info https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1007/dosso-dossi-giovanni-di-niccolo-de-lutero-italian-ferrarese-about-1490-1542/

Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara (PDF) http://resources.metmuseum.org/resources/metpublications/pdf/

Isabella info

https://isabelladeste.web.unc.edu/profile-of-isabella-deste/

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/isabella_d_este https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_d%27Este

“Fickle Fortune: Pinning Down Fortune in 16th Century Italy” by Megan Haddad (2019) Aleph, UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 16. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kw3v8st

Frank Sinatra singing Luck Be a Lady Tonight https://youtu.be/X69P_Vce9vw

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

This deceptively peaceful summer landscape actually bristles with energy! Van Gogh painted this in Arles, in the south of France where he tried to escape modern life and re-discover a simpler, brighter world.

We’ll find out how the actions of an American admiral in a country on the other side of the globe led to one of the biggest artistic influences that Europe–and Vincent–had ever experienced.

See the artwork at https://alonglookpodcast.com/farmhouse-in-provence-by-vincent-van-gogh/

SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT)

“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is “Sonatine – II. Mouvement de Menuet” composed by Maurice Ravel. Performed by Markus Staab. Courtesy of musopen.org. https://musopen.org/music/4724-sonatine/

Farmhouse in Provence information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52178.html

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52178.html#relatedpages

Japanese influence on Western art Japonisme : Japanese Reflections in Western Art. Sunderland, England: Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, 1986. Print.

Put, Max., Sichel, Philippe., and Koechlin, Raymond. Plunder and Pleasure : Japanese Art in the West, 1860-1930 . Leiden: Hotei Pub., 2000. Print.

Vincent van Gogh and Japan. Tokyo: TV Asahi, 1992. Print.

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jpon/hd_jpon.htm

https://www.kumon-ukiyoe.jp/en/history.php

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/stories/inspiration-from-japan#10

Quotes from van Gogh’s letter explaining color use https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/audio-video/audio/collection-highlights-english/farmhouse-in-provence-van-gogh.html

The Life of Animals in Japanese Arthttps://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2019/life-of-animals-in-japanese-art.html

Library of Congress Japanese Prints Collection https://www.loc.gov/collections/japanese-fine-prints-pre-1915/about-this-collection/

Andō, Hiroshige, Artist. Tōto meguro yuhhigaoka / Hiroshige ga. Fuji Japan Mount Tokyo, 1858. [Tokyo: Tsuta-ya Kichizō] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004666335/.

We’ve reached the end of Season 3! Thanks to all you returning listeners and welcome to our new audience members. If you’ve been enjoying the show, you can show your appreciation by subscribing and sharing! You can also help by leaving a comment or rating in Apple Podcasts or in your podcast app. That helps more people discover the show!

“A Long Look” will be back in October to give me time to plan and prep for Season 4.

Until then, there’s plenty happening at the Gallery. They’re staying open until 8 p.m. through August 18 when “The Life of Animals in Japanese Art” closes. Works by Oliver Lee Jackson are up til Sept. 15. And “By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs” is up through January 5. Check www.nga.gov for details.

In the meantime, you can catch up on any episodes you missed. You can find them in the archives here and on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn or your favorite podcast app.

And you can follow me on Instagram @alonglookpodcast and check back here for updates. Thanks for listening!

SHOW NOTES

“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo