Articles with keyword "painting"
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Drawn From Nature
By Laura Harbold
John James Audubon captured a disappearing world in his paintings.
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The Other Jefferson Davis
By Guy Gugliotta
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
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To See a Face
By Henry Wiencek
Simmie Knox's bumpy road from abstract artist to presidential portraitist.
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A Century of Art
By Laura Wolff Scanlan
"Hearing the Century: Voices of Arizona's Arts Past and Present" features Arizona artists and history.
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The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
By Barbara Will
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
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The Artist as Showman
Jefferson Lecturer John Updike talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about his writing, the "gorgeous creatures" of modernism, and much else.
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All the Art
By Amy Lifson
The records division at the Frick continues working toward the great goal of its founder.
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Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People
By Katy Werlin
A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.