Painting

<p><span class="deck"> Itinerant primitive painters dressed up the farmers and the burghers as they hoped posterity would remember them</span> </p>

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

<p><span class="deck"> Guess who’s having a revival—</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 A reminiscent tribute to a great American painter, with an evocative selection from thousands of unpublished sketches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>These earnest specimens resemble people we all know.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Third in a series of paintings for</span> AMERICAN HERITAGE BY DON TROIANI </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> An English artist recaptures on canvas the American ships that once ruled the seas</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Fourth in a series of paintings for</span> AMERICAN HERITAGE </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Fifth in a series of painting for</span><br />
AMERICAN HERITAGE </span></p>

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

<p><span class="deck"> Seventh in a series of paintings for AMERICAN HERITAGE</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"> <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"> A gathering of turn-of-the-century paintings</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> A West Point Gallery</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"> <span class="typestyle"> An Autumn Harvest of American Still Lifes</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"> 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 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"> …so Lincoln joked. Actually he was eager to pose for portraits.</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"> 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"> From the North Woods to New Orleans with an artist-reporter of the last century</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A young artist takes on a venerable genre.</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>