American Stories
Most of the following questions come from H. Barbara Weinberg and Carrie Rebora Barratt's Met catalogue entitled American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915
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Artist: Peter Adams ; Book of Knowledge (Grolier, Inc.)
Date: c. 1950s-1960s
Medium: Dolls, Toys and Games
Size: 5 x 10 1/16 x 3 9/16 in. (12.7 x 25.56 x 9.05 cm)
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Accession #: 2003.236.602
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Seymour Joseph Guy's The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room, 1866
The New York Historical Society's Hudson River Valley Paintings Collection
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George Caleb Bingham's The County Election, 1852
Richard Caton Woodville's Politics in an Oyster House, 1848
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Lily Martin Spencer's Kiss Me and You'll Kiss the 'Lasses, 1856 and Cookbook and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman's analysis of the cooking in the painting
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William Sindey Mount's The Power of Music, 1847
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William Sindey Mount's The Power of Music, 1847
Richard Caton Woodville's War News From Mexico, 1848
Thomas Le Clear's Young America, 1863
Eastman Johnson's Negro LIfe at The South, 1859
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George Cochran Lambdin's The Consecration, 1861
The NGA's online feature regarding Augustus Saint-Gauden's Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and The Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment, 1884-87
Edmund Lamson Henry's The Old Westover House, 1869
Winslow Homer's American Trooper Meditating Beside a Grave, c. 1865
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Charles Deas' The Death Struggle, 1845
John Mix Stanley's Gambling for the Buck, 1867
The NGA's George de Forest Brush's The Indian Paintings exhibition
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Thomas Eakins' The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), 1871
Thomas Anshutz's The Ironworkers' Noontime, 1880
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