Pocketguide to CMA: The White House by Elijah Pierce

Reginald Marsh American, 1898 - 1954 Hudson Bay Fur Company, 1932 Egg tempera on muslin mounted to particle board. Museum purchase Howald Fund, 1956. Reginald Marsh was a prolific sketcher and chronicler of life of the middle- and lower-income working class in New York City from the 1920s through his…

Artist Dorothea Tanning once said, "Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity..."     I boarded that raft after losing my younger sister, my Mom, and then my sweet, tiny Yorkshire Terrier, Mona Lisa, hugging her tightly as she was being euthanized.  …

Looking down on top of a wooden table, on which are a sheet of paper and cups of water in different colors- red, yellow, green and blue). A child’s hands with light skin are seen reaching from the top of the photograph to place a plastic dropper into a cup…

By now you’ve probably heard of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead; the sugar skulls, the skeletons, the parties and cemeteries. It’s mysterious, colorful, fun and sad all at once. It’s a unique and beautiful blend of joy and grief, life and death. Maybe you feel intrigued…