Gem of the Month: Morgan Russell
As I did with Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) last week, I'm presenting another American original today: Morgan Russell. Russell was one of the first American artists to exhibit nono ...
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Women's (Art) History Month 2020 III
I dare say the role of women artists in the history of art has always been a strong presence, even if major art histories do not record all of them faithfully. ...
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An Awesome "Find"
In the annals of art history—and I mean the standard art history texts used for high school and college—obviously thousands of significant artists are left out. Well, as I’ve said be ...
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American Originals
I’ve mentioned in previous blogs how spotty modernism was in American art in the early 1900s. Since the colonial period, American artists had a tenacious obsession with realism, including the wo ...
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