Bits of Mackintosh, arts and crafts, and academic classicism, as well as a floral-dominated, charmingly uptight, Americanized art nouveau, were all part of a densely packed decorative scheme.

WSJ: Miracle on 42nd Street | By Ada Louise Huxtable

Not just a decorative scheme, these sculptures and paintings were part of a comprehensive environment conceived and executed by Judd himself.

WSJ: Donald Judd's SoHo Haven

In one pastel, Degas evoked the thrilling height of the suspended figure with sketchy indications of the building's iron framework in vivid blue, as in the painting, but he experimented briefly with the position of the feet, pushing the front leg and the pointed foot, in its decorative boot, forward to create an emphatic vertical gesture in the lower part of the image.

WSJ: A Dizzying Artistic Feat | Edgar Degas | Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando | By Karen Wilkin