1998 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "American 18-19th Century Representational Art"

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(above: John Gadsby Chapman, Woman and Donkey by a Roadside Shrine, 1870, oil on cardboard (artist board), 10 x 14 inches, Birmingham Museum of Art, museum purchase by the Friends of American Art with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Ehney A. Camp, III; Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Goings, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. William C. Hulsey; and Mr. and Mrs. Lathrop W. Smith, Jr., 2008.17, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:

Art of the Gold Rush (11/5/98)

Forgotten Etchers: Nineteenth-Century Prints from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams (10/16/98)

Art Colonies and American Impressionists (9/1/98)

The Snite Acquires Bierstadt Landscape, American Portraits and Fairfield Porter Canvas (8/24/98)

Acquisition of Paintings by William Merritt Chase and Charles Willson Peale Enriches American Holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (8/13/98)

 

Long Island Paintings from a Private Collection (7/24/98)

Artists of the Boston Art Club, 1854 - 1950 (7/11/98)

45th Biennial Exhibition: The Corcoran Collects (6/15/98)

Diversity of Line: Works in Pen and Ink from the Collection of the Brandywine River Museum (4/30/98)

American Masters from the Frye Art Museum's Permanent Collection

 

Director's Choice: American and European Masters from the Frye Museum Collections (5/1/98)

 

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(above:  Johann Hermann Carmiencke, Western Landscape, 1853, oil on canvas, High Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

(above:  John William Casilear, Alpine Lake, 1860, oil on canvas, High Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

(above:  Mary Stevenson Cassatt, Self Portrait, c. 1878, guache on paper, 23.6 x 16.1 inches, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Additional paintings by Mary Cassatt

 

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