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Artist Birthday: George Elmer Browne

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

George Elmer Browne was an American painter, one of the many who, in the late 1800s, studied painting in Paris at the height of the Impressionist period. His West End School of Art in Provincetown, Ma ...

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An Olympics Ode: George Bellows

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 | Karl Cole

Because I was just amazed by a recent showing of fencing at the London Olympics, I decided to dedicate this post to the 2012 Olympics, and feature a painting of a sport that is played in the Summer Ol ...

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What Is Realism? Jan van Eyck and Henry O. Tanner

Monday, June 1, 2009 | Karl Cole

American art has always been characterized by a strong reverence for realism, from the early colonial portraits by artists such as John Singleton Copley, through the Hudson River School, and into the ...

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