The City of Ambitions by Alfred Stieglitz https://www.nga.gov/artworks/35459-city-ambitions
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.15 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.834 Philadelphia
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.15 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.834 Philadelphia
Charles Sheeler was a master of both painting and photography, and his work in one medium influenced and shaped his work in the other.[1] In 1927, he was commissioned to photograph the Ford Motor Company’s new River Rouge Plant near Detroit. Then the world’s largest industrial complex, employing more than 75,000 workers, the plant produced Ford’s Model A, successor to the famed Model T.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
The acclaimed Delaware artist first brought his artistic ambitions to life drawing decorative art objects for the Work Progress Administration project.
This included weekly trips to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where they were encouraged
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National Portrait Gallery, Washington; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist’s creative synthesis of the actual site.
British and Modern French Schools, privately printed, Philadelphia, 1915: unpaginated
The artist; purchased 1973/1974 by André Emmerich, New York; private collection, Philadelphia
(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia
The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin : the Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia
Guy Pène du Bois painted La Rue de la Santé during his lengthy stay in France from 1924 to 1929. As the title indicates, the scene is set on La Rue de la Santé in the 14th arrondissement on the Left Bank of the Seine in Montparnasse.
Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
(his sale, Sotheby’s‘ London, 15 July 1946, no. 2216); (The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia