<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"> From Germany and Switzerland, farmer-potters transplanted their skills to Pennsylvania and produced a distinctive ceramic found nowhere else in America</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 class="typestyle"> There’s a corner of every Americans heart that is reserved for a cartoon cat. Its name might be Garfield, Sylvester, Fritz, or Felix. But there will never be another Krazy.</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"> As painting became a respectable profession in America, artists began to celebrate their workplaces</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> was the first magazine in America to change its cover for every issue. And these covers may still be the best graphic art magazine has ever produced.</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"> Using the same bold colors that drew the rubes in to see the Giant Rat of Sumatra and the Three-Headed Calf, he painted a fanciful record of his world</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> For almost four decades, Marshall Davidson, who pioneered a new genre of illustrated history, has worked with many thousands of pieces of American art. Out of them all he now selects fourteen images that have particularly enchanted him</span> . </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> California has always been as much a state of mind as a geographical entity. For the better part of two centuries, artists have been defining its splendid promise.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> He was more than just a cartoonist. He was the Hogarth of the American middle class.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The largest Gothic cathedral in the Western Hemisphere has the strangest stained-glass windows in the world</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The richly embellished account book of an eighteenth-century sea captain, newly discovered in a Maine attic</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> At one time or another, practically every American artist has brought forth a blossom.</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"><span class="typestyle">After standing in New York Harbor for nearly one hundred years, this thin-skinned but sturdy lady needs a lot of attention. She’s getting it -- from a crack team of French and American architects and engineers.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Peter Marié, a bon vivant of the Gilded Age, asked hundreds of Society’s prettiest women to allow themselves to be painted for him alone</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He was the most naturally gifted of The Eight, and his vigorous, uninhibited vision of city life transformed American painting at the turn of the century. In fact, he may have been too gifted.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">While a whole generation of artists sought inspiration in the wilderness, George Inness was painting the fields and farms of a man-made countryside.</span></p>
<p>Much has changed in Utah since World War II, but, outside of the metropolitan center in the Salt Lake Valley, the addiction to rural simplicity and the idea of home is still strong.</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"> On sojourns away from the studio where he labored in oils, Homer took along his watercolors and produced his freshest and most expressive work</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"> The distinguished artist talks intimately about the art, the emotions, and the unique talent of his illustrator father, Newell Convers Wyeth</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> Born in response to the shoddy, machine-made goods available in the marketplace, the Arts and Crafts movement in America began in isolated workshops and spread to the public at large, preaching the virtues of the simple, the useful, and the handmade</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> In a career that made her one of the greatest American artist of the century, Georgia O’Keeffe claimed to have done it all by herself—without influence from family, friends, or fellow artists. The real story is less romantic though just as extraordinary.</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>
