<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">After standing in New York Harbor for nearly one hundred years, this thin-skinned but sturdy lady needs a lot of attention. She’s getting it -- from a crack team of French and American architects and engineers.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Peter Marié, a bon vivant of the Gilded Age, asked hundreds of Society’s prettiest women to allow themselves to be painted for him alone</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He was the most naturally gifted of The Eight, and his vigorous, uninhibited vision of city life transformed American painting at the turn of the century. In fact, he may have been too gifted.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">While a whole generation of artists sought inspiration in the wilderness, George Inness was painting the fields and farms of a man-made countryside.</span></p>
<p>Much has changed in Utah since World War II, but, outside of the metropolitan center in the Salt Lake Valley, the addiction to rural simplicity and the idea of home is still strong.</p>
<p><span class="deck">John White Alexander began his career as an office boy at <em><span class="typestyle"> Harper’s Weekly</span></em> and rose to be a leading painter of his generation, especially of its women.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> On sojourns away from the studio where he labored in oils, Homer took along his watercolors and produced his freshest and most expressive work</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">It took half a century for his critics to see his subjects as clearly as he did; but, today, he stands as America’s preeminent portraitist.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> In a career that made her one of the greatest American artist of the century, Georgia O’Keeffe claimed to have done it all by herself—without influence from family, friends, or fellow artists. The real story is less romantic though just as extraordinary.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">He said that his critics didn’t like his work because it was “too noisy,” but he didn’t care what any of them said. George Luks’ determination to paint only what interested him was his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">American art was hardly more than a cultural curiosity in the early years of this century. Now, it is among the world’s most influential, and much of the credit belongs to a self-made woman named Juliana Force.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In an age when the best black artists were lucky to exhibit their work at state fairs, Henry Ossawa Tanner was accepted by the most selective jury in France.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A PAIR OF GERMAN-BORN CRAFTSMEN BEGAN BY MAKING EXUBERANT FURNITURE AND WENT ON TO SHOW A NEWLY RICH GENERATION HOW TO LIVE.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">World War I made the city the financial capital of the world. Then, after World War II, a very few audacious painters and passionate critics made it the cultural capital, as well. Here is how they seized the torch from Europe.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A HALF-CENTRY AGO, Harry Dubin bought his son a camera, and, together, they made a remarkable series of photographs of a city full of blue-collar workers.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">His contemporaries saw the painter Charles Burchfield as another regionalist. Today, it seems clear that the region was the human spirit.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">At the height of the American avant-garde movement, Fairfield Porter’s realistic paintings defied the orthodoxy of Abstract Expressionism and risked rejection by the art world. But today, his true stature is becoming apparent: He may just be the best we have.</span></p>
<p>American artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens finds inspiration in France to create one of America’s most iconic sculptures, a memorial to the Civil War hero Admiral David Farragut.</p>
