When critics hinted Maurice Prendergast was getting a little repetitive as he approached 50, he could’ve hung up his brushes. After all, he’d been pretty successful. Instead, he headed back to where it all began--Paris--and came away reinvigorated with “a new impulse,” as he called it.

Today’s episode takes us to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. We’ll find out how an idea that started with Congress just before the Depression led to an official modern art museum on the National Mall!

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

“Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 - IX. King of the Hobbyhorse” by Robert Schumman

Performed by Donald Betts.

“Children's Corner, L. 113 - III. Serenade of the doll” by Claude Debussy

Performed by Edward Rosser

Both courtesy of musopen.org

“Loopster” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Artwork information

Beach at Saint-Malo

https://iiif.si.edu/mirador/?manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fmanifest%2FHMSG-HMSG-66.4131 (mirador zoom-in view)

https://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm%3Ahmsg_66.4131

Prendergast info

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/prendergast-maurice/

https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5270.html

Maurice Prendergast. Wattenmaker, Richard J, and National Museum of American Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994.

https://archive.org/details/mauriceprenderga0000watt/page/n5/mode/2up

Maurice Prendergast : By the Sea. Homann, Joachim. Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin college Museum of Art, 2013.

“The Early Art Education of Maurice Prendergast.” Glavin, Ellen. Archives of American Art Journal 33, no. 1 (1993): 2–12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1557569. (JSTOR)

Hirshhorn info

https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/the-founding-donor/

https://hirshhorn.si.edu/about-us/

https://siarchives.si.edu/history/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-garden

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden : The Collection. Brunet, Briana Feston, and Romare Bearden. Edited by Stéphane Aquin, Anne Reeve, and Sandy Guttman. New York: DelMonico Books, 2022.

Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/saint-malo/

So much better than Instagram! Pierre-Auguste Renoir invited 14 friends to lunch one summer--several lunches actually--and ended up creating this spectacular work of art.

In today’s episode we find out about this happy group and that beautiful riverside restaurant they’re clearly enjoying. And I’ll tell you a pretty funny story about how Duncan Phillips was able to get this stunner for his new modern art museum, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC.

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
“Parisian” by Kevin MacLeod
https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

From Blue Dot Sessions:
“Via Verre” https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/306837

“Symphony 40 In G Minor” https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/306840

“Etude 9 Stefan” https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/306841

Artwork information
https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/luncheon-boating-party

https://www.phillipscollection.org/event/2017-10-06-renoir-and-friends-luncheon-boating-party

“The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A collection in the making” by Duncan Philips and David W. Scott. 1999. Edited by Erika D. Passantino. Washington, DC: Phillips Collection in association with Yale University New Haven.

Sitters identified
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party

Holston papers
William H. Holston papers, 1915-1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Reel D-169 #1029-31

“Luncheon of the Boating Party” by Susan Vreeland
https://bookshop.org/p/books/luncheon-of-the-boating-party-susan-vreeland/11716075?ean=9780143113522&next=t

Maison Fournaise
https://www.maisonfournaise.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_Fournaise

Caillebotte episode
https://alonglookpodcast.com/08-skiffs-caillebotte

Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/boatingparty/

No bows and arrows, no hunting buffalo on horseback. Walter Ufer saw first-hand that Native Americans in the 1920s weren't the romanticized caricatures from the old Wild West shows.

In today's episode we're looking at “Callers” and find out how a city boy from Chicago ended up in Taos, NM and broke all the rules when it came to depicting his friends and neighbors as real people trying to balance the modern world with tradition.

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
“Free Guitar Riding Blues” and “Follow the Little Creek” by Loco Lobo. Courtesy of Free Music Archive
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/completly-free/free-guitar-riding-blues-f-014

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/verona/follow-the-little-creek-faster-id-1386

“Clusticus the Mistaken” by Doctor Turtle. Courtesy of the artist
https://doctorturtle.bandcamp.com/album/free-turtle-archive-everything-cc-by-by-turtle

Artwork information
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/callers-24394

Artist info
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/walter-ufer-4912

https://www.historynet.com/walter-ufer/?f

https://cometatomic.com/walter-ufer-a-remarkable-journey-through-art-and-activism/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Ufer

https://www.illinoisart.org/essays/walter-ufer#_ftn23

Ufer letter
https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll1/id/1930

Taos Artists Society
“The Taos Society of Artists : Masters & Masterworks” by Amy Scott (Internet Archive)
https://archive.org/details/taossocietyofart0000scot

Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/callers-ufer/