Artists

<p><span class="deck"> The Middle West has put its stamp on many artists’ work</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle">A “primitive-moderne” spoofs American art and history.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The simple, affectionate water colors of an unassuming Scots immigrant, David J. Kennedy, bring back the Philadelphia of 1876 and our first great world’s fair</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A reminiscent tribute to a great American painter, with an evocative selection from thousands of unpublished sketches</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “I do not admit that a woman can draw like that,” said Degas when he saw one of her pictures</span> </span></p>

<p>These earnest specimens resemble people we all know.</p>

<p>The great American Realist painter Thomas Hart Benton reflects on his life, his work, his colleagues, and much more.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> A Portfolio of Paintings</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The paintings of</span> E. L. Henry: </span></p>

<p>In painting the romance of the American cowboy, Remington knew instinctively what would grip his audience and held it fast.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Vinnie Ream sculptured Lincoln while she was still a teen-ager</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> A gathering of turn-of-the-century paintings</span> </p>

<p>Painter to the Federalist aristocracy, Stuart created likenesses of leading citizens with great brilliance and exactitude.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A. B. Frost faithfully recorded the woodland pursuits of himself and his affluent friends</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A ponderous memorial to a people who refused to vanish</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A major new exhibition celebrates the bright, idiosyncratic paintings of America’s folk artists</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> said a New York newspaper when the Metropolitan opened its American Wing in 1924. This spring, a new, grander American Wing once again displays the collection that Lewis Mumford found “not merely an exhibition of art,” but “a pageant of American history.”</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Declaring himself a “thorough democrat” George Caleb Bingham portrayed the American voter with an artist’s eye—and a seasoned politicians savvy</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Smaller, Greener Baltimore of Francis Guy</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> He loved women so much he painted wings on them. After years of neglect, he is now being appreciated.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In the thirties the WPA decided it would be good to know just what the insides of Victorian homes, offices, and stores had looked like. The artist-historian Perkins Harnly created a sumptuous record.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Combat Art of Albert K. Murray</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The famous painter of Eastern city life also captured the sunny, spacious world of the Southwest</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A contemporary artist re-creates two and a half centuries of the life of a North Carolina county</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> As painting became a respectable profession in America, artists began to celebrate their workplaces</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Antonio Jacobsen, the most prolific of all American marine artists</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> At one time or another, practically every American artist has brought forth a blossom.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A gathering of little-known drawings from Columbia<br />
University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library illuminates two centuries of American building</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Turn-of-the-century American painters came to Venice for its ancient splendors and pearly light. In a few years they captured its canals, palaces, and people in a spirit of gentle modernism that looks better than ever.</span> </span></p>