"Right now I have a crush on a sixteenth-century Italian painting that has a gigantic laurel tree."
Nineteenth-century paintings curator Rebecca Rabinow finds a way to get a taste of the outdoors inside the galleries.
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Nineteenth-century paintings curator Rebecca Rabinow finds a way to get a taste of the outdoors inside the galleries.
Rebecca Rabinow
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Rebecca Rabinow
Former Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center
Former Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Curator in Charge of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center
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Art Mentioned
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Mary Cassatt
ca. 1880–83
Japan
late 18th century–first half 19th century
Attributed to Tosa Mitsunobu
late 15th–early 16th century
Edgar Degas
1865
Girolamo dai Libri
ca. 1520
Vincent van Gogh
1890
Henri Rousseau (le Douanier)
ca. 1907
French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)
1495–1505
Edouard Vuillard
1920; reworked 1926, 1935, 1936
Pierre Bonnard
1939
Georgia O'Keeffe
1926
ca. 1336–1327 B.C.