<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The canvases of John Trumbull, sometime soldier, reluctant artist, have given us our visual image of the colonies’ struggle to be free</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"> Its venerable Museum of Fine Arts revives an era of forgotten beauty in a very proper Bohemia</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 A reminiscent tribute to a great American painter, with an evocative selection from thousands of unpublished sketches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><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> High on a hill above the Hudson River Frederick Edwin Church indulged his passion for building an exotic dream castle</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"> 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"> 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 style="italic" reason="other" class="typestyle"> George Eastman didn’t think the posters the movie companies supplied were good enough for <span class="typestyle"> his</span> theater. So he commissioned a local artist to paint better ones. </span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Most surveys of American painting begin in New England in the eighteenth century, move westward to the Rockies in the nineteenth, and return to New York in the twentieth. Now we’ll have to redraw the map</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>
<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">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"> Charles Sheeler found his subject in the architecture of industry. To him, America’s factories were the cathedrals of the modern age.</span> </p>