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pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache, on laid paper, Gift of Professor
Discover works by Benjamin West and learn about the artist
pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache, on laid paper, Gift of Professor
Safra Visiting Professor) discusses works in the National Gallery’s collection
The first pictures of marshlands by Martin Johnson Heade featured the environs of Newbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts, near the mouth of the Merrimack River. Perhaps attracted by John Greenleaf Whittier’s poetry that celebrated the local landscape or more likely drawn there by his acquaintance with Bishop Thomas March Clark of Newburyport, Heade discovered the area sometime around 1859.
Associated Names Wilmerding, John, Professor Exhibition History 2004 American
Lorenzo de‘ Medici, the brilliant, learned, and ruthless head of a wealthy banking family, ruled the Italian city-state of Florence in the Renaissance. This bust may copy a wax statue made to commemorate Lorenzo’s survival in 1478, when an assassination plot took the life of his younger brother.
states that the bust was bought in Italy during the 1840s by Lord Taunton from Professor
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Allegory of Peace, pen and brown ink and wash on blue laid paper; laid down, Gift of Professor
Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama. The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing:
greatly influenced by the African American social realist painter Charles White, a professor
(Professor Luigi Grassi [1858-1937], Florence); purchased January 1923 by (Duveen
The Palestinian-American poet is inspired by „Falling Man“ by Max Beckmann, her mother’s teacher.
Naomi Shihab Nye Essayist, educator, and professor of creative writing at Texas
curator of northern baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and professor
Through his surrealist woodcut, Cortor considers the relationship between humans and animals and tells the stories of Black bodies.
Holland is the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor of American Studies in