American 18-19th Century Figurative and
Portrait Art
- Artist & Visionary: William
Matthew Prior Revealed (2/19/13)
- The Indian Gallery of Henry
Inman (7/15/12)
- Annotations: George Cooke &
Thomas Hope and the Influence of Antiquity (5/31/12)
- Friend of the Family, Two Paintings
by George Caleb Bingham; essay by Mary Francey (10/12/11)
- Thomas Hovenden: American Painter
of Hearth and Homeland; article by Michael Schantz (4/22/09)
- Patrick Henry: Sentinel for the
People, article by William Rasmussen (2/2/09)
- First Fitzhughs of Virginia: A
Colonial Dynasty Painted by John Hesselius, article by William Rasmussen
(1/30/09)
- Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend,
article by William Rasmussen (1/29/09)
- Introduction: Enlarging a Little
Giant; essay by Harold Holzer (8/21/08)
- Charles Willson Peale and His
Family of Painters; essay by Louise Lippincott (7/24/08)
- John Singleton Copley's 'Native'
Realism & His English 'Improvement'; exhibition description by Emily
Ballew Neff (11/8/07)
- Tracing the Nation: Recently Acquired
American Drawings (9/17/07)
- The Peale Legacy: The Art of an
American Family, 1770-1870; article by Lillian Miller (6/6/07)
- In Pursuit of Fame: Rembrandt
Peale, 1778 - 1860; article by Lillian Miller (6/5/07)
- Eastman Johnson: Paintings and
Drawings of the Lake Superior Ojibwe (10/2/06)
- A Deaf Artist in Early America:
The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr. (5/10/06)
- Deaf Artist in Early America:
The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr. (4/25/05)
- Point of Sight: Thomas Eakins'
Drawing Manual Reconstructed (3/21/05)
- Gilbert Stuart (3/8/05)
- Great Expectations: John Singer
Sargent Painting Children (3/1/05)
- Painted Faith: Traditional New
Mexican Devotional Images; essay by Cody James Hartley (2/28/05)
- George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
(9/13/04)
- Seen But Not Heard: Images of
Children from the Collection of the Boston Athenæum (9/13/04)
- Gilbert Stuart (8/17/04)
- America's First Old Master: Portraits
by John Singleton Copley from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (5/1/04)
- Process and Paradox: The Historical
Pictures of John Singleton Copley (4/1/04)
- Thomas Eakins' "The Swimming
Hole"; essay by Doreen Bolger and Claire M. Barry (4/1/04)
- From Hand to Heart: The Art of
the American Miniature Portrait; essay by Peter J. Baldaia (3/22/04)
- Faces From the Past: Portraits
by Cephas Thompson and Cephas Giovanni Thompson (3/9/04)
- Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-garde
in Victorian London (12/1/03)
- George Washington: A National
Treasure (11/26/03)
- George Washington: A National Treasure
(8/12/03)
- Whistler, Women, and Fashion (8/12/02)
- George Catlin and His Indian Gallery
(7/31/02)
- Sargent's "Madame X";
or, Assertion and Retreat in Woman; essay by Lynette Abel (7/1/02)
- Cecilia Beaux: The Oil Sketch
and Representationist Thought in the Philadelphia School of Painting; essay
by Patrick Connors (5/14/02)
- His and Hers: Folk Portraits of
Husbands and Wives (4/26/02)
- Whistler's Nudes at the Freer
Gallery of Art (2/13/02)
- George Washington by Gilbert
Stuart (1755-1828) at The Frick Collection (2/11/02)
- Lincoln and Washington: The Printmakers
Blessed Their Union; article by Harold Holzer (2/4/02)
- The Early Portraits of Lincoln;
article by Louis A. Warren (1/9/02)
- Love ond Loss: American Portrait
and Mourning Miniatures (2/26/01)
- Love and Loss: American Portrait
and Mourning Miniatures at Yale University Art Gallery (2/26/01
- A Brush with History: Paintings
from the National Portrait Gallery (1/19/01)
- Thomas Sully in the Metropolitan
(6/12/00)
- Henry Benbridge (1743 - 1812):
Charleston Portrait Painter (6/5/00)
- Eastman Johnson: Painting America
(2/16/00)
- New Mexican Madonnas, 1775-1998
(12/19/99)
- "Almost a Deception ..."John
Singleton Copley and Company in Williamsburg (11/25/99)
- Miniature Portraits: Leila Waring
(10/11/99)
- Charleston Connections: 1670 -1865
(10/11/99)
- John Singleton Copley and Margaret
Kemble Gage: Turkish Fashion in 18th Century America (6/11/99)
- Sargent in the Studio: Drawings,
Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches (6/8/99)
- John Singer Sargent at Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston (6/4/99)
- Frank Duveneck (1848-1919): Virtuoso
of the Brush (5/30/99)
- Abbott Thayer: The Nature of Art
(5/16/99)
- Facing the Past: Portraits from
the Permanent Collection of Muscarelle Museum of Art (5/12/99)
- American Art at Biltmore House
(5/11/99)
- Espana: American Artists and the
Spanish Experience (2/20/99)
- Copley Painting Stays in Philadelphia
(2/7/99)
- Whistler and Vanderbilt: An Artist
and His Patron (2/6/99)
- John Singer Sargent (2/4/99)
- First in the Hearts of His Countrymen:
George Washington (2/2/99)
- George Washington: American
Symbol (12/4/98)
- The Snite Acquires Bierstadt
Landscape, American Portraits and Fairfield Porter Canvas (8/24/98)
- A Sargent Celebration at the
Huntington (7/29/98)
- Colonial Portraits by Copley
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Alabama Portraits Prior to 1870, By National Society of the Colonial
Dames of America Alabama. Historical Activities Committee. 1969. 417 pages
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