A trove of works by the Norwegian Expressionist painter and printmaker Edvard Munch has been gifted to Harvard Art Museums by the late collectors Lynn Straus and her husband, Philip Straus, who ...
Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones) (1906-08), one of the highlights of the recent donation to the Harvard Art Museums Harvard Art Museums / Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus ...
Beyond “The Scream,” there’s a side of the artist that’s long been unexplored in the U.S., as shown by “Trembling Earth” at the Clark Art Institute. By Roberta Smith Roberta Smith, the co-chief art ...
An installation view of the Edvard Munch's "Trembling Earth” exhibit at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. A view of the Edvard Munch's "Trembling Earth” exhibit at the Clark ...
Gift from longtime donors Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus makes the collection among the most significant in the United States The Harvard Art Museums announced Tuesday that they have received a major ...
In 1901, Edvard Munch’s “Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones),” a chillingly enigmatic 1892 painting of a man and woman — Husband and wife? Lovers? Complete strangers? — poised on a rocky beach with ...
That may change with “Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed,” SFMOMA’s new exhibit that — thanks largely to the museum’s collaboration with Norway’s Munch Museum — looks at the artist’s entire ...
LONDON — Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is almost a byword for his over-reproduced representation of psychological torment known as “The Scream” (1893). Its grimacing visage and loose, swirling ...
Edvard Munch (1863-1944), “Vampire II” (1896). The Savings Bank Foundation DNB, on loan to Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (all images courtesy of the British Museum unless otherwise noted) LONDON — ...
Curators at the National Museum of Norway have concluded that an enigmatic inscription hidden within Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream was authored by the artist himself. Experts have long ...
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Edvard Munch Was Haunted by Physical and Mental Illnesses—but He Was Also Fascinated by Them
The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was well-acquainted with the world of medicine. He was the son and brother of doctors, and he suffered from medical and psychiatric illnesses throughout his lifetime.
“Many had painted oaks before,” wrote poet Olav H. Hauge. “Nevertheless Munch painted an oak.” This seems about as profound a thing as one can say about painting, which is wordless and beyond words.
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