Prints documented the plight of the oppressed and commemorated the struggles and achievements of social reform.
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2006. Prignitz-Poda, Helga.
This is a signed early work by Cuyp, probably painted about 1643–44. Although larger than most works painted by the artist when he was in his early to mid-twenties, the painting shares with them a fluid touch and a palette reminiscent of Jan van Goyen; pale browns and yellows blend together in the landscape, tans and grays in the costumes, and blues in the sky
Cuyp used the same study for the backgrounds of The Kicking Horse (Philadelphia Museum
The first American artist to study in Italy, West painted assiduously and embraced the embryonic Neoclassical movement then developing over all of Europe.
William Smith, provost of the College of Philadelphia, who enrolled him in his school
Utica, N.Y., 1862–Florence, 1928
through the Ferargil Galleries in 1916; Gino Severini’s Danseuse (Dancer, 1915–16; Philadelphia
Paris, 1884–Paris, 1951
Before becoming a dealer, Girardin trained as a dentist in Paris and Philadelphia
Milan, 1885–Milan 1969
Philadelphia Museum Bulletin 40, no. 204 (January 1945): pp. 35–48.
Object Number: 1978.412.289 Webster Plass, London, (d.)1952; Margaret Barton Plass, Philadelphia
formerly inlaid University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Celebrated by some, deplored by others, these stimulating brews gave rise to a number of important social institutions, such as the coffeehouse, the tea garden, and the ritual of afternoon tea.
Moreau de Saint-Méry, a foreign visitor to Philadelphia in the 1790s, noted the warmth
