Picturing America Questions
Click here to see the Albany Institute of History and Art''s card table
Click here to see the Metropolitian Museum of Art''s Side chair
Click here to see the Boston Museum of Fine Arts'' High Chest of drawers
Click here to see Phillis Wheatley''s Writing Desk, c. 1760
Click here to see the Boston Museum of Fine Arts'' Leather Great Chair
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Click here to see the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute''s Silver Piece
Click here to see the Yale University Art Museum''s Silver Piece (you will need to click on the right uppermost image and then on ABOUT IMAGE
Click here to see the The Hood Museum of Art''s Silver Pitcher
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Click here to see The Getty's Houdin exhibition
Click here to see David Martin''s portrait of Benjamin Franklin, c. 1767
Click here to see Mason Chamberlian''s portrait of Benjamin Franklin, 1762
Click here to see Joseph Siffred Duplessis'' portrait of Benjamin Franklin, 1778
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Paul Revere''s The Bloody Massacre..., 1770
John Trumbull''s The Battle of Bunker''s Hill, 1786
Emanuel Leutze''s Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851
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Click here to see the Lansdowne portrait, 1796
Click here to hear Kerry James Marshall''s discussion of his painting the founding fathers in mural for the SFMoMa entitled Visable Means of Support, 2009.
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Click here to see John Singleton Copley''s Unfinished Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd, c. 1765
Click here to see John Singleton Copley''s Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd, c. 1765
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Charles Willson Peale''s The Edward Lloyd Family, 1770
John Singleton Copley Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Winslow (Jemima Debuke), 1773
Thomas Gainsborough''s Robert Andrews and His Wife, c. 1750
Charles Willson Peale''s John and Elizabeth Cadwalader, and Their Daughter, Anne, 1772
Charles Willson Peale''s Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming, 1788
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You will be exploring the life and works of John Singer Sargent. This undertaking incorporates quotes from Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray''s edited "John Singer Sargent: Early Portraits" and "John Singer Sargent: Portraits Of The 1890s."
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"According to Jean Besnard , his brother Robert was born in July 1882, but other evidence points to ____..... If the number of candles is correct, therefore, this picture ought to date from 1887, when Sargent certainly visited Paris." --pg. 157-58
Using the zoom option, count the candles and determine when Robert (the young boy in the painting) was born.
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In his memior, "Random Recollections of a Happy Life (1923), Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes recalled a preliminary pose suggested by Sargent for his wife''s portrait:
"A new pose was finally decided upon, in which Edith was to stand with one hand resting on the head of a tiger-striped Great Dane, which was to be selected from the kennels belonging to one of Sargent''s friends. (Stokes 1941, p. 116)" -- pg. 122
The authors of the catalogue go on to assert: "A new development occured when the Great Dane, who was to have featured as Mrs. Stokes''s ''accessory'', could not be obtained. Mr. Stokes had ''a sudden inspiration, and offered to assume the orle of the Great Dane in the picture'' (Stokes 1941, p. 117); his figure was painted in three sittings. Trevor Fairbrother has suggested that, as a compositional precedent , Sargent may have had in compositional precedent, Sargent may have had in mind Van Dyck''s portrait of James Stuart, fourth Duke of Lennox and first Duke of Richmond (c. 1633), which features a Great Dane nestling his head against his master''s side; the portrait had been presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Sargent''s friend, the connoisseur Henry Gurdon Marquand (see no. 343), in 1889 (see Fairbrother 1986, pp. 370-1)." --pg. 124
Click here to see Sargent''s portrait of Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes, 1897
Click here to see Van Dyck''s portrait of James Stuart, c. 1634-35
Now I would like you to sketch a new portrait of Mrs. Stokes with a Great Dane or another large dog from a generic Dog Breed site.
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Click here to see Edouard Manet''s "Olympia," 1863
Click here to see Cecilia Beaux''s "Sita and Sarita," 1921
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Walker Evans' Brooklyn Bridge, 1929
Joseph Stella's Old Brooklyn Bridge, c. 1941
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Click here to see The Phillips Collection American Art Timeline online feature
Click here to see The Whitney Museum of American Art''s Gallery of works online feature
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Grant Wood''s Daughters of the Revolution, 1932
Richard Avedon''s The Generals of The Daughters of the American Revolution..., 1963
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The following questions were generated from my reading of Anne E. Gibson’s essay entitled “Gay and Black in Greenwich Village: Beauford Delaney’s Idylls of Integration and Patricia Sue Canterbury’s “Transatlantic Transformations: Beauford Delaney in Paris” in Canterbury’s Beuford Delaney: From New York To Paris exhibition catalogue.
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Click here to see Delaney''s Untitled, 1958-59
Click here and scroll down to see The Exploratorium''s images of sunspots
Click here and scroll down to see NASA''s images of sunspots
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