Paintings at Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University

Finally, I'm coming to talk about the paintings at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. It has some very fascinating modern works and several beautiful 18th century or older European paintings. Adding to this exulted group, there are several paintings command my attention through various virtues even though they are quite sentimental and suspect of being kitsch.

My favorite one is Angel by Sean Scully


Angel, Sean Scully

Great Anselm Kiefer was represented by Jakobs Traum (Jacob's Dream):









There are three very beautiful Richard Diebenkorn pieces:


Window


Ocean Park #94


Ocean Park #94 (Details)


Ocean Park #94 (Details)


Disintegrating Pig

Other modern works include:


Mirror, Skull, and Chair, Paul Wonner


Interior with Cityscape, Elmer Nelson Bischoff


Fall 1964, Frank Lobdell


Untitled (Scene with ''X''), Elmer Nelson Bischoff

Modernism European works include:


Parklandschaft, Erich Heckel


Kurish Bride, I, Max Pechstein


Paul (Details), Henri Matisse

Not my favorite painters, I dido find the thinly painted background in Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins's portrait of Professor William D. Marks interesting:


Portrait of Professor William D. Marks, Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins

I'm in the period of reconnecting to drawing, thus this little drawing appeals me:


Saint Paul's from Saint Martin's-in-the-Fields, William Evans of Bristol

Sentimental? Yes. But I like the color scheme and particularly the color of the pants very beautiful:


The Magdalen, Jean-Jacques Henner

There were three beautiful Madonnas:


The Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John, Jacopo del Sellaio


Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel, Domenico di Bartolomeo Ubaldini


Madonna in Glory (Details), Carlo Dolci

... and a Satan:


Satan Summoning his Legions, Thomas Stothard, R.A.

... plus a figure somewhere in between:


Napoleon Bonaparte, Andrea Appiani