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Susan Tallman

Reporter · US

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Sep 13, 2026
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Jul 11, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Susan Tallman

    Look Closer: Edward Steichen’s Sunflower (opens the original)

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    Edward Steichen was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His work ranged from the muffled light and shadow of his early landscapes to the snappy glamour of his fashion photography and celebrity portraits (Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Anna May Wong). He had trained, however, as a painter immersed in Parisian Postimpressionism. Steichen’s experiences during World War I, serving with U.S. forces in aerial-photography units, left him with a crisis of faith in modern painti

  2. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Susan Tallman

    Look Closer: David Hockney’s Rules of Beauty (opens the original)

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    David Hockney, who died at 88 in June, became famous as a young artist for imbuing 20th-century life with the formality and stasis of early Renaissance painting. His sharp-edged figures stand by the pool or sit by a coffee table in spaces as orderly as those in a Fra Angelico annunciation. The real world does not look so tidy, symmetrical, and enchanting. Except, very occasionally, when it does. Contrejour in the French Style depicts a window at the Louvre that Hockney encountered shortly after

  3. Article · Jul 11, 2026 · Susan Tallman

    Look Closer: 'Interior With Women Beside a Linen Cupboard' (opens the original)

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    Pieter de Hooch was a contemporary of Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch city of Delft for a time; they painted similar subjects, in similar costumes, engaged in similarly quotidian activities. But they were quite different artists. De Hooch’s 1663 painting Interior With Women Beside a Linen Cupboard delivers exactly as little drama and numinous transcendence as its title promises. (It was formerly called The Good Housewife, which is hardly better.) The intrigue lies elsewhere. De Hooch’s picture is

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