Art & Culture

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

<p><span class="deck">New York received the great composer like a god; he responded <span class="typestyle"> con brio</span> to its shiny gadgets and beautiful women and produced an “American” opera.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> For almost two decades at the turn of the century illustrated songs charmed nickelodeon audiences.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Guess who’s having a revival—</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Between the ages of fifteen and twenty, young Peter Rindisbacher captured on canvas the lives of Indians and white pioneers on the Manitoba—Minnesota frontier</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"> “Life Style” in the Nineteenth Century</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> An artist recalls his Midwestern home town and the poet who made it famous</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> If it rained, the painters failed to record it</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A PORTFOLIO OF AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The revival in the nineteenth century of medieval motifs in architecture extended from villas and furniture to farmhouses and vineries</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> HIS GRANDSON RECALLS:</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 A reminiscent tribute to a great American painter, with an evocative selection from thousands of unpublished sketches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"> <span class="typestyle"> A visit to New York when it was little, not very old, and rather more attractive</span> </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><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Eighth in a series of paintings for</span> AMERICAN HERITAGE </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Horace Engle’s</span> An amateur photographer surreptitiously captured the mood of unsuspecting neighbors—with affecting results </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The paintings of</span> E. L. Henry: </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>