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The strength and vitality of the people who helped establish the new Dutch Republic are nowhere better captured than in the work of Frans Hals, who was the preeminent portrait painter in Haarlem, the most important artistic center of Holland in the early part of the seventeenth century. This unidentified sitter—one of Hals’ most impressive portraits—was sixty years old when the painting was made, according to the artist’s inscription.
Raleigh, 2002: 110-111, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

This large double portrait on horseback is unusual in Dutch art, because equestrian likenesses were initially reserved for sitting monarchs. Traditional portrait convention would have placed the woman to the left and slightly behind the man, yet this elegant lady on her magnificent steed occupies center stage.
Washington, 2001: no. 40, 172-175, 207, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Black White and Blue was painted at a critical juncture in Georgia O’Keeffe’s life. In 1929 she began to spend several months of each year in New Mexico, away from both New York and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer and promoter of American modernist painting and photography.
Hand, John Oliver.

This gruesome scene is from the Old Testament story of David defeating the giant Goliath. David is shown swinging the slingshot that brought down Goliath, whose severed head lies on the ground.
Washington, 2003: 3-7, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Painted in August 1907, Forty-two Kids depicts a band of nude and partially clothed boys engaged in a variety of antics—swimming, diving, sunbathing, smoking, and possibly urinating—on and near a dilapidated wharf jutting out over New York City’s East River. A sharp observer of urban life, George Bellows has sketched his streetwise subjects with characteristic vigor and economy of means, and he has carefully rendered their varied ethnic backgrounds.
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Cole’s renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the „River of Life.“ Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of „Youth“ and its aspirations for glory and fame. As the traveler approaches his goal, the ever-more-turbulent stream deviates from its course and relentlessly carries him toward the next picture in the series, where nature’s fury, evil demons, and self-doubt will threaten his very existence.
Chicago, 1998: 2:692. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Painted in October 1909, the remarkably expressive and dynamic Both Members of This Club is the third and largest of George Bellows’s early prizefighting subjects. The painting’s title is a reference to the practice in private athletic clubs of introducing the contestants to the audience as “both members� to circumvent the Lewis Law of 1900 that had banned public boxing matches in New York State.
Chicago, 1998: 2:855, 856. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

In 1775, Gilbert Stuart set sail for London where Benjamin West welcomed the destitute young man into his home. The Skater marks the end of his five-year apprenticeship to West.
Chicago, 1998: 2:586-588. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.

Painter Charles Willson Peale named many of his children for famous artists, including his sons Rembrandt and Rubens Peale. Rembrandt became an artist himself.
American Art Journal 33, nos. 1 and 2 (2002): 4-19, fig. 1. 2004 Hand, John Oliver