At the Piano

At the Piano

Theodore Robinson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This charming domestic vignette reveals Robinson’s academic training prior to his adoption of an Impressionist style about 1888. The emphasis on volumetric forms and carefully rendered details is especially evident in the young woman’s slender fingers and delicate facial features. The drawing relates to two paintings of piano subjects of the same date (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.).

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.