In the extensive publications about John James Audubon (Fig. 1), the artist-naturalist who was America’s first great watercolorist, his art has not received the same attention as his dramatic life ...
It was that year, in the rooms of his home, that Rembrandt Peale ... with gems of light.” Peale’s objective was providing lighting for his “saloon of paintings,” and he startled ...
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In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...
Charles Willson Peale’s name on a mural panel at SEPTA’s Independence Hall subway station is now spelled correctly. On Saturday, Philadelphia artist Tom Judd went to the Fifth Street/Independence Hall ...
How do you discuss Rembrandt's paintings in your book? Historically, studies of the transatlantic slave trade in early modern painting (about 1400-1700) have looked at paintings that directly ...
The canvas, ground, and surface pigments, were all compared to those of known Peale paintings, which allowed experts to determine “with a high degree of confidence” that it was indeed by the ...
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.) ...
Today, we bring you a new installment of our focus challenges, in which we ask you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art. We’ll now feature these on the first Monday of each ...
His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings. By Corey Kilgannon Mort ...