When The White Girl debuted in London in 1862, it puzzled viewers. At the time, portraits of this scale usually featured well-known people.
D.C., 1949, no. 15. 1950 Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Painting, Philadelphia
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.
1844, no. 3. 1844 Paintings Exhibited…, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
for another painting, North River (1908, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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.
1843, no. 2. 1844 Paintings Exhibited…, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
The unusual subject of this painting comes from one of Aesop’s fables. In his Man and the Satyr , he related how a demigod helped a peasant who was lost on a wintry day.
Widener, Ashbourne-near Philadelphia. Part II.
Jacob van Ruisdael represents the pinnacle of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting. This great artist, the son of a painter and the nephew of Salomon van Ruysdael (see NGA 2007.116.1), began his career in Haarlem but moved to Amsterdam in about 1656.
Widener, Ashbourne, near Philadelphia. 2 vols.
Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 3. 1969 Symbols
History Provenance (Wickersham Gallery, New York), in 1965; (Robert Carlen, Philadelphia
Compensation is a portrait of the struggles of deaf African Americans and the complexities of loving relationships at the bookends of the 20th century.Â
About the artist Originally from Philadelphia, Zeinabu Davis is acclaimed for her
Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue
