Haig Patigian (1876-1950)
Helen of California [Helen Wills], 1927
Painting in background by Robert Henri (1865-1929)
Lady in Black with Spanish Scarf
(O. in Black with a Scarf), 1910
Lady in Black with Spanish Scarf
(O. in Black with a Scarf), 1910
George Bellows (1882-1925)
Seated Nude, 1910-1911
George Hitchcock (1850-1913)
Tulip Culture (detail), 1889
Tulip Culture (detail), 1889
Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938)
The Blue Veil, 1898
Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
Easter Morning (Portrait at a New York Window), 1921
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Caroline de Bassano, Marquise d'Espeuilles, 1884
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled XX (detail), 1977
Gottfried Helnwein (b. 1948)
Epiphany II (detail), 1998
Sean Scully (b. 1945)
Wall of Light Horizon, 2005
The Sean Scully immediately above is probably my favorite painting in the entire building. The great patron Nan Tucker McEvoy gave it to the museum shortly after it was painted. This picture was my whole introduction to Sean Scully, I had never heard of him before I encountered the work in this room.