2003 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "American 18-19th Century Representational Art"

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(above: Karl Bodmer, The Buffalo Hunt, c. 1832-1837, gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper, 15 5/16 x 26 1/2 inches, Liveauctioneers.com. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

Our articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

George Catlin and His Indian Gallery (12/22/03)

Reflections: Furniture, Silver, and Paintings in Early America (11/21/03)

Toy Stories and Winter Scenes from the Museum of the City of New York (11/3/03)

Art of the American West from a Private Collection (9/29/03)

Copley to Cassatt: Masterworks from the Terra Collection (9/26/03)

 

No Day Without a Line: Whistler in the Archives of American Art (8/27/03)

Winslow Homer The Illustrator: His Wood Engravings, 1857-1888 from the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida (8/11/03)

Harvard Collects American Art (8/9/03)

The Pictorial Record of the Old West; article by Robert Taft (8/8/03)

Mr. Whistler's Galleries (7/8/03)

 

Whistler and Cassatt: Americans Abroad (5/19/03)

The Golden Age of Fine and Decorative Arts from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. Department of State (5/12/03)

Diamonds, Rifle Rangers and Rock Slides: Codman's "Native" Landscapes, essay by Jessica Skwire Routhier (2/6/03)

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Presents "Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum" (2/6/03)

Art and Industry in Philadelphia: Origins of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women; article by Nina de Angeli Walls (1/24/03)

 

Whistler in Venice: The Pastels (1/24/03)

 

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(above: Frank Myers Boggs, The Harbor at Honfleur, c. 1886, oil on canvas, 34.5 x 50.4 inches, gift of Mrs. J. Lester Keep, Brooklyn Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

 

(above: Alfred Boisseau, Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou, 1847, New Orleans Museum of Art.  Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

 

(above:  DeWitt Clinton Boutelle, Trenton Falls near Utica, New York, 1873, oil on canvas, High Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

(above: DeWitt Clinton Boutelle, Waterfall, c. 1858-1876, oil on canvas, 26.2 x 20.9 inches, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

 

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