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Philips Wouwerman | National Gallery of Art

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Philips Wouwerman, a prolific painter of equestrian scenes, hailed from Haarlem, where he was baptized on May 24, 1619. The eldest of three sons born to the painter Pouwels Joosten and Susanna van den Bogert, Pouwels’ fourth wife, Wouwerman probably first learned to paint from his father.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Aelbert Cuyp | National Gallery of Art

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Aelbert Cuyp, one of the foremost Dutch land­scape painters of the seventeenth century, was born in Dordrecht in October of 1620. His father, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594–1652), was a successful por­trait painter in the city, and from him Aelbert received his earliest training, assisting his father by painting landscape backgrounds for por­trait commissions.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) by Thomas Cole

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Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole’s painting depicts the site of an earlier landslide whose destruction prompted the victims—Mr.
Sturges, Fairfield, Connecticut; LeRoy Ireland, Philadelphia, probably early 1930s

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Forty-two Kids by George Bellows

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Painted in August 1907, Forty-two Kids depicts a band of nude and partially clothed boys engaged in a variety of antics—swimming, diving, sunbathing, smoking, and possibly urinating—on and near a dilapidated wharf jutting out over New York City’s East River. A sharp observer of urban life, George Bellows has sketched his streetwise subjects with characteristic vigor and economy of means, and he has carefully rendered their varied ethnic backgrounds.
1908, no. 167. 103rd Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

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A Vestal by Clodion

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Known for playfully sensuous terracotta nymphs and satyrs, Clodion also portrayed more serious subjects from Classical myth and history. An ancient draped figure at the Uffizi in Florence, then known as a vestal, inspired him during a stay in Italy to make several statuettes of a priestess of the Roman hearth goddess Vesta, pouring out oil to feed the sacred fire.
Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000: 250-251, under no. 127. 2005 Baillio

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