| George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Hart Benton: Pioneering
Art in the Midwest |
Spring 2005
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One of the most important cultural changes in nineteenth-century America was the transformation of the western frontier into the Midwest. A byproduct of.....
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| Keeping Shadows: Masterworks of Photography |
Spring 2005
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This major exhibition displays one hundred images that span the history of photography, from its genesis in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Included are works from......
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| Line & Berry Inlaid Spice Box |
Spring 2005
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Spice boxes, or chests, were popular among the Quakers of the Delaware Valley during the late seventeenth and throughout the eighteenth centuries, remaining fashionable in Pennsylvania long after falling out of style elsewhere. The boxes, fitted in the.....
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| May Night: Willard Metcalf at Old Lyme |
Spring 2005
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Willard Metcalf (1858–1925) was one of America’s premier landscape painters. His impact on the Lyme art colony, “America’s center of impressionism,” has, up until now......
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| MESDA 2005 Summer Institute |
Spring 2005
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The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, N.C., are offering a graduate summer program that will focus on......
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| Museum of the Shenandoah Valley |
Spring 2005
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When the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) opens in Winchester, Virginia, on April 3, it will mark completion of the second phase of a significant regional history museum complex. The project was inaugurated in......
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| N.C. Wyeth's Home Reopens |
Spring 2005
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In 1911, with the proceeds from his illustrations for Treasure Island, N. C. Wyeth purchased 18 acres on Rocky Hill in the village of Chadds Ford, where he built his home and studio. Wyeth lived there until......
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| Noteworthy Sales: Residence of C.F. Veil, Charles Frederick Veil |
Spring 2005
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Charles Frederick Veil was born in Germany in 1813. He immigrated to America where he became a tanner, living in Liberty (Tioga County), Pa. This fine folk watercolor picture of......
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| Noteworthy Sales: Schooners Racing off New York Harbor |
Spring 2005
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The painting depicts a yacht race in New York Harbor. The setting is the upper bay with Castle Garden on the tip of Manhattan on the left, and Castle William on Governors Island on the right; both favorite backgrounds for......
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| Noteworthy Sales: African-American Slave Pictorial |
Spring 2005
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Extant examples of appliquéd pictorials made by slaves are exceedingly rare. Much of the imagery and presentationof this pictorial—from the giraffe to......
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