Degas’ pastel The Tub is included in “Great Works, In Focus,” a series in the Washington Post featuring art critic Sebastian Smee’s favorite works in permanent collections around the United States
[The Tub] by Edgar Degas in the collection of the Hill-Stead Museum, a little-known museum in Farmington, Conn., is one of my favorite works in any American collection. At the most basic level, it is just a wonder to me that one human would respond to another by making something like this.<span class="su-quote-cite"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2021/edgar-degas-the-tub/" target="_blank">Sebastian Smee</a></span>
Photo by Anne Day
Read the article in the Washington Post
Great Works in Focus, Sebastian Smee (Washington Post, November 17, 2021)
100 Great Works, In Focus, Sebastian Smee (Washington Post, February 22, 2022)
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