Cover
Dedication
To Anna for being Anna. To artists of the future, Lyla, Noah, Ava, and Violet. JP
To my grandson Theo, in hopes he may enjoy these works as much as his grandpa has done. SG
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
UNITED STATES
Chapter 1 Boston, Massachusetts
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
1 — Giotto (Giotto di Bondone) (1267–1337)
The Presentation of the Christ Child in the Temple (c. 1320)
2 — John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
El Jaleo ( The Ruckus) (1882)
3 — Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (1488–1576)
Europa (1559–62)
Gentile Bellini (1429–1507)
A Seated Scribe (1479–81)
Museum of Fine Arts
4 — Washington Allston (1779–1843)
Moonlit Landscape (1819)
5 — John Singleton Copley (1738–1815)
Watson and the Shark (1778)
6 — Edgar Degas (1834–1917)
Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli (c. 1865)
7 — El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541–1614)
Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino (1609)
8 — Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo) (1494–1540)
The Dead Christ with Angels (c. 1524–27)
9 — Lucian Freud (1922–2011)
Susie (1988)
10 — Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
Where Do We Come From? What Are We?
Where Are We Going? (1897–98)
11 — John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882)
12 — Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and
Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (1840)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)
(1599–1660)
Luis de Góngora y Argote (1622)
Chapter 2 Buffalo, New York
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
13 — Willem de Kooning (1904–97)
Gotham News (1955)
14 — Patrick Heron (1920–99)
Six in Vermilion with Red in Red (1970)
Chapter 3 Chicago, Illinois
Art Institute of Chicago
15 — Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947)
Earthly Paradise (1916–20)
16 — Georges Braque (1882–1963)
Still Life with Fruits and Stringed Instrument (1938)
17 — Gustave Caillebotte (1848–94) 76
Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877)
18 — Marc Chagall (1885–1985)
White Crucifixion (1938)
19 — Giovanni di Paolo (1403–82)
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist (1455–60)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (1541–1614)
The Feast in the House of Simon (1608–14)
20 — Edward Hopper (1882–1967)
Nighthawks (1942)
Édouard Manet (1832–83)
Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers (1865)
21 — Agnes Martin (1912–2004)
Untitled #12 (1977)
22 — Joan Mitchell (1925–92)
City Landscape (1955)
23 — Berthe Morisot (1841–95)
Woman at Her Toilette (1875–80)
Bridget Riley (1931–)
Ascending and Descending Hero (1965)
24 — Georges Seurat (1859–91)
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884 (1884–86)
25 — Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (1518–94)
Tarquin and Lucretia (1578–80)
26 — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
Equestrienne (At the Cirque Fernando) (1887–88)
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish (1837–38)
27 — Vincent van Gogh (1853–90)
The Bedroom (1889)
28 — Grant Wood (1891–1942)
American Gothic (1930)
Museum of Contemporary Art
29 — Francis Bacon (1909–92)
Study for a Portrait (1949)
