Nineteenth-century American architecture and furniture design was characterized by a parade of different styles that purported to take their inspiration from the design vocabulary of the past.
The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 was instrumental in bringing beautifully
Strasbourg, France, 1890–Sunlife, N.H., 1967
organized many traveling exhibitions of Guggenheim’s collection (Charleston, 1936; Philadelphia
In addition to portraits, status symbols included sets of silver or porcelain for the service of tea, hot chocolate, and coffee.
Charles Willson Peale, who studied in London between 1767 and 1769, returned to Philadelphia
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Bibliography of The Met’s Paintings Conservation department
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London
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for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia
[until 1957, with Hesperia Art]; acquired in 1957, purchased from Hesperia Art, Philadelphia
Brookline, Mass., 1900–Hartford, Conn., 1957
Notable works in the show included Self-Portrait with Palette (1906; Philadelphia
The increasingly erotic character of Rodin’s sculpture in the 1880s can be explained by his preoccupation with two highly charged literary sources. These were Dante’s Inferno and Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil.
The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin: The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia.
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