In her youth, Georgia O’Keeffe had been particularly fascinated by the jack-in-the-pulpit. In 1930, she executed a series of six paintings of the common North American herbaceous flowering plant at Lake George in New York.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 251, repro. 1996 Wagner, Anne Middleton
In a time when the nation was divided over the issue of slavery, artists helped to shape people’s understandings of the conflict that overtook the nation. Some artists depicted the political figures and events that drove and reflected the conflict. Other artists were on the battlefield itself, bringing the emotional toll of war home in immediate ways.
54th Massachusetts led the assault upon the nearly impenetrable earthworks of Fort Wagner
Niagara , located on the homeland of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), is among the greatest natural wonders of North America. Beginning in the late 17th century, the site became a popular but challenging subject for European artists.
Washington, 1947: 41, as Niagara Falls. 2003 Kugler, Richard C.
in residence) The Poetics of Quotation in Rubens“ Versions of Myths (1610–1620) Richard
For further discussion, see Richard Gid Powers, “Toward a New Literature: Novelistic
