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With „The Skater,“ Stuart blazed a new path in British portraiture. Its details tell the story of skating in 18th-century Britain.
So Stuart may have caught wind of Joseph Wright’s Two Young Gentleman in the Characters
In June 1871, Thomas Moran, a gifted young artist working in Philadelphia, boarded a train that would take him to the far reaches of the western frontier and change the course of his career. Just a few months earlier he had been asked to illustrate a magazine article describing a wondrous region in Wyoming called Yellowstone—rumored to contain steam-spewing geysers, boiling hot springs, and bubbling mud pots.
Captivated by the bands of color that centuries of wind and water had revealed, Moran
Chef and Native American food historian Loretta Barett Oden reflects on her friendship with artist G. Peter Jemison.
The wind is brisk, and I grow weary.
Students will explore nineteenth-century life in the White Mountains of New Hampshire through a tale of a family who lived there by analyzing a painting by Thomas Cole and reading a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. They will then write a comparative essay and complete a mathematics worksheet to enhance their perception of American life in the nineteenth century.
often rumble down its sides,” “something like a heavy footstep was heard,” the wind
Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
The skirt flickers around the stick as if in a strong wind.
The river continues to wind into the deep distance, where towns nestle along the
into the light-drenched cross street as Italian and Red Cross flags billow in the wind
How artists based in Iowa, from the early 20th century to today, have crafted their own visions of the region.
They evoke so much at once: a field swaying in the wind, the trickster figure of
Find out where artist the abstract painter was born, went to school, and lived.
And every morning since then, the wind has given me new colors through the windowpanes
Great art shifts your way of seeing the world. When her sister was dying, composer Kamala Sankaram was drawn to the intensity of Mark Rothko’s painting.
And he has this whole fleet of ships, and none of them can sail—there’s no wind.
