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A team of scholars led by dean emerita Elizabeth Cropper and professor Lorenzo Pericolo
A team of scholars led by dean emerita Elizabeth Cropper and professor Lorenzo Pericolo
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
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
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
curator of northern baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and 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
Artists Willie Cole and Alison Saar, along with collectors Larry and Brenda Thompson, join us in celebration of the exhibition With Passion and Purpose: Gifts from the Collection of Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson.
She was an Assistant Professor at Morehouse College in the Department of Psychology
The doubling in Johnson’s photograph recalls the paired images of Emmett Till, but it imagines him alive and thriving.
Shawn Michelle Smith Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the
Artists Willie Cole and Alison Saar, along with collectors Larry and Brenda Thompson, join us in celebration of the exhibition With Passion and Purpose: Gifts from the Collection of Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson.
She was an Assistant Professor at Morehouse College in the Department of Psychology