Chronology of Articles and Essays
April, 2001
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(above: Thomas Moran, A Showery Day, Grand Canyon,1919, oil on canvas, 25 x 20 in. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
Thomas Hart Benton, by Marianne Berardi (4/30/01)
Frank Duveneck & Elizabeth Boott Duveneck: An American Romance, by Carol M. Osborne (4/29/01)
Craft and the Creative Process (4/28/01)
A Leap from the Pedestal (4/28/01)
John W. McCoy: American Painter (4/26/01)
Customized & Converted: The Art of the Automobile (4/26/01)
The Morans: the Artistry of a Nineteenth-Century Family of Painter-Etchers (4/25/01)
Three Generations of Wyeths Featured in Spring, 2001 Farnsworth Art Museum Exhibitions (4/24/01)
Grandma Moses in the 21st Century (4/24/01)
George Luks by Judith Hansen O'Toole (4/19/01)
Theodore Robinson: Pioneer of American Impressionism, by D. Scott Atkinson (4/19/01)
Pornography at Your Local Library (4/18/01)
Scenes of American Life: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (4/15/01)
The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition (4/15/01)
Puerto Rican Santos de Palo: Sculptures Between Heaven and Earth (4/14/01)
A Legacy of Early California Paintings: The Shumate Collection (4/13/01)
David Brega and Douglas Brega: Oil and Water (4/12/01)
Robert Frost and J J. Lankes: A Shared Vision of America (4/11/01)
Alfred H. Maurer: American Modernist (4/11/01)
Grant Wood Lithographs (4/10/01)
Joseph Thurman Pearson, Jr., A Painter in the Grand Manner (4/10/01)
Solowey Unseen: Works by Ben Solowey from the Collection (4/9/01)
An American Anthem: 300 Years of Painting from The Butler Institute of American Art (4/2/01)
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American Representational Art - links to dozens of topics in American Representational Art
Distinguished Artists - a national registry of historic artists
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Collections of Historic American Art - notable private collections
Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History - a catalogue of articles and essays that describe the evolution of American art from the inception of the United States to WWII.
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