For years, an elaborately displayed tooth at the Art Institute of Chicago has been thought to belong to the major Christian religious figure John the Baptist. As it turns out, that claim has no teeth.
Stout achieved an ascetic sensuality in his geometric abstractions, a paradoxical synthesis of restraint and hedonism that is unmatched by any of his contemporaries.
Painted in 1880, The Crucifixion is startling in its simplicity: A lifeless figure fills a bleak landscape ... Crucifixion that he had never seen before: one where the body really felt like it was ...