Edward Hopper’s lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, New York, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years later, in 1934, he and his wife built a house and studio in South Truro, Massachusetts, where he produced a number of oil paintings and watercolors manifesting his avid interest in nautical subjects.
The Washington Post (21 March 1943): L4.
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National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Hostilities between North American colonists and Britain were boiling over in the 1770s when Benjamin West painted this double portrait. The British wanted to ensure the loyalty of the Mohawk people, the easternmost tribe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), in case of war.
National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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Alma Thomas loved to explore color. In this painting, Thomas created vertical stripes of vivid color with slightly varying dabs of paint, giving a mosaic-like effect.
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
