Some 50 works by today’s most innovative Native American artists share a common thread of the land.
Peter Jemison (Seneca Nation of Indians, Heron Clan) and Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee
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As the oldest son of Charles Willson Peale, Raphaelle Peale was the first in a dynasty of painters and botanists burdened by the names of famous artists and scientists that their father admired. In the first history of American art, published nine years after Raphaelle Peale’s death and one of the very few notices taken of him, William Dunlap wrote that Peale, like his father, was „a painter of portraits in oil and miniature, but excelled more in compositions of still life.
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Painter Charles Willson Peale named many of his children for famous artists, including his sons Rembrandt and Rubens Peale. Rembrandt became an artist himself.
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Glenn Ligon was born in the Bronx in 1960, attended the Walden School in New York on a scholarship, and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1982. He participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 1985, known at that time for its language-based approach.
National Gallery of Art Bulletin 48 (Spring 2013): 24-25, repro. 2015 "Art for the Nation
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