Barry Schwabsky on Josephine Halvorson - Artforum International
Just a handful of the fourteen paintings in Josephine Halvorson’s “Unforgotten” called on trompe l’oeil conventions. But with the show following hard on the heels of the controversial “Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition” at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was hard to avoid focusing on the connection. Halvorson has long depicted vertically oriented tableaux parallel to the picture plane (corkboards or just wooden walls) with pinned-up receipts, sketches, letters, and...
Barry Schwabsky Yves Bonnefoy Josephine Halvorson New York Metropolitan Museum New England Blacksmiths
Source: artforum.com