This exhibition includes a selection of contemporary American paintings and prints from Mellon Bank's collecttion. The collection, which initially consisted of a small body of nineteenth-century paintings, was carefully supplemented in the early…
Jimmy Ernst was a painter heavily influenced by Surrealism and Dada as seen in his erratic pallette and interest in chance happenings in his paintings.
The paintings of Wade Schuman, distinguised by observational skill, technical mastery, and recognizable subject matter is, however, less about Realism and more about Illusion. What is at the issue in his painting is not how depictions are madeto…