Robert Adams

Caesars’ Hall, the everyday ground-floor entrance hall at Kedleston Hall. ©National Trust Images/Nadia Mackenzie Part of the Marble Hall at Kedleston Hall. ©National Trust Images/Dennis Gilbert The Marble Hall at Kedleston. ©NTPL/Dennis Gilbert Pause amongst the pillars... at Kedleston. ©NTPL/Dennis Gilbert The Drawing Room at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire. The chimneypiece and ceiling were designed by Paine, while the doorcases and sofas are slightly later additions by Robert Adam. ©NTPL/Nadia Mackenzie... [Lire la suite]

The entrance hall at Harewood House, 1759, designed by Robert Adam. Photographer: Paul Barker The painted Hall chairs with their Neoclassic ornament are by Thomas Chippendale. The hall shows Adam's concern for classicism, with a unified interior of engaged columns, plaster reserves with flattened reliefs, and a running Greek Key frieze.-PB 

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864 - 1946), Music--A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. II, 1922 gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.829 WASHINGTON, DC.- Three important and beautiful series of black-and-white landscape photographs will be showcased in, Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz, on view through March 15, 2009 (West Building Ground Floor Gallery 34). This focus exhibition features 21 works in... [Lire la suite]