Jude'sMusings

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Rebecca Olsen: "Gaslighter's Guide to the Galaxy:" an Artwork

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  If we're not professional critics, we generally go to an exhibition, look at the works, maybe focus on one or two, and if we're no...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Not Selfies But Nostalgia: Kenneth Riley

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In the nineteenth century, European and Native-born painters were chronicling the Euro-American expansion into what became the United Stat...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Selfies II: Frenzeny and Tavernier

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  Paul Tavernier: Big Medicine Man , Boston, Museum of Fine Arts At first glance, the watercolor   Big Medicine Man   resembles Catlin's...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Selfies: Bodmer and Catlin

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  NOTE: For some reason I can't add posts to jbswest, so these new posts will be found here under jbsmusings. George Catlin: "The A...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Our Father(s), Our Mother(s), Our Kids

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  "Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

The Mysterious and Wonderful Marine Parkway Bridg

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Marine Parkway Bridge aka Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge When I was five years old, after the end of World War II, we moved from New Jersey to Q...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

La Otra Mirada [The Other View] Comes to America

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  La Otra Mirada,   a Spanish TV production from 2018-2019, finally arrived in the U.S. via PBS and Amazon, under the title of   The Boardin...
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Judith B. Sobré
I am Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Texas at San Antonio since 1974. My chief academic interest began as Medieval Spain, but I have become increasingly interested in the intersection of art and popular culture. Since my retirement, my focus has shifted to the arts and material culture of the American West, the recording and interpretation of both white settlers and the first peoples, both real and imagined, in both traditional media of the "fine arts" and the wonderful products of what used to be called "mere artisans." Many of my takeoff points will be material from the Briscoe Museum of Western Art in San Antonio, Texas
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