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
Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 48. 1953 Renaissance
Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime: 1889, Berlin (no. 81.9, as Ochsen [stie.]) 1893, Philadelphia
Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue
at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia
Gabriel Metsu was born in Leiden sometime between November 27 and mid-December 1629, about eight months after the death of his father, the Flemish painter Jacques Metsue. In 1644, when fifteen-year-old Gabriel Metsu joined a semiformal group of local artists, he entered the membership rolls as a “painter.� Six days after the establishment of Leiden’s Saint Luke’s Guild in 1648, Metsu paid his membership dues as an independent master.
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Unlike some of his contemporaries, John Frederick Kensett felt no need to travel to the tropics or the American West to find compelling subjects to paint. Instead, he continually revisited several familiar locales in New York and New England where he could explore the ways in which the same motif was altered by subtle differences in light and atmosphere.
Cummings, Historic Annals of the National Academy of Design (1825-1863), Philadelphia
Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Philadelphia;[2] inheritance from Estate of
The three cargo ships in this large painting are the type of wide-bellied, seagoing vessels used to transport much of the commodities that generated the wealth of the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Flying the red, white, and blue flag of the Dutch Republic, these floating symbols of national prosperity are nevertheless in peril of crashing on the rocky shore.
Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Jan Steen’s paintings encompass a wide range of moods and subjects, from intimate scenes of a family saying grace before a meal to festive village celebrations, yet all of his paintings elicit a warm reaction to the lives of ordinary people. All five senses are represented in this work in which two young musicians play for a dancing couple while other people in the vine-covered arbor flirt, eat, drink, or smoke, and children amuse themselves with their toys.
Widener, Ashbourne, near Philadelphia. 2 vols.
