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Thomas Eakins and The Chess Players
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"I Was Once a Barefoot Boy!": Cultural Tensions in a Popular Chromo
The Aldine made no distinction between chromolithographs and the original paintings they imitated; "chromos" were to provide all the enjoyment and uplifting sentiment of the original, but at an…
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Thomas Kinkade's Romantic Landscape
It is easy to dismiss the work of contemporary landscape painter Thomas Kinkade, but whether it is good or not, it is telling. This article begins by noting the remarkable lack of critical response…
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Imagining the Ordinary
John Rogers developed and satisfied a mass market for sculpture as no previous American sculptor had. He self‐consciously rejected the prevailing neoclassical style, sought popular acclaim from the…
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Popularizing art in Boston, 1865-1910 : L. Prang and company and the museum of fine arts
Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History. By Akela Reason
Thomas Eakins created images of the past throughout his career. AkelaReason contends that Eakins valued these historical works as much or more than the paintings commonly regarded as his masterpieces…
Reconstructing a Family
This article analyzes the Civil War sculptures of John Rogers, particularly Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations (1865), his most critically acclaimed work and his personal favorite. In Taking the…
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Book Reviews
Did Vermeer use optical devices in making his paintings? If so, how? Here is a fresh contribution to an old debate. The "rediscovery" of Vermeer in 1866 in a series of articles by ThCophile…
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