1997 Resource Library articles and essays with the topic "American 18-19th Century Representational Art"
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(above: George Catlin, "Smoking Horses," a Curious Custom of the Sauk and Fox, c. 1835-36, oil on canvas, 19.6 x 27.5 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art::
American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection
Hagerstown Artists Exhibition (12/10/97)
Early Wisconsin Collection Being Unveiled
A National Collection: Paintings Selected from the Collection of The National Academy Museum
The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870 (4/97)
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(above: Jefferson David Chalfant, The Clockmaker,1899, oil on copper, 13 1/8 x 9 1/2 inches, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*
(above: Thomas Chambers, Staten Island and the Narrows, between 1833 and 1857, oil on canvas, 21.9 x 30.2 inches, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, Brooklyn Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*
(above: Benjamin Champney, Winter Scene, North Moat Mountain, New Hampshire, 1873, oil on canvas, 18 x 28 inches, New Hampshire Historical Society. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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