Painting Hung in Family Home for 150 Years—Then They Discovered Its Value
The piece, titled Study of Reclining Lions, had been in the same family's possession for 150 years since the posthumous sale of the artist's studio in 1864. The work is set to go to auction where it ...
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In the Curator’s Words: At the Timken, looking at art through a modern lens
It revisits Albert Bierstadt’s 1864 oil-on-canvas painting “Cho-looke ... of the foremost American landscape painters of the 19th century, Albert Bierstadt. There’s nothing accidental ...
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The Lost Art Colony of Greenwich, Connecticut
Find out how you can visit the picturesque site that attracted artists and writers from NYC!
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This Painting of Lounging Lions Was Hanging in a Family’s Living Room. It Turned Out to Be an Original Delacroix
Titled "Study of Reclining Lions," the previously unknown work by the renowned French Romantic painter has been owned by a ...
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A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit
Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum. An 1870 watercolor of Agaricus rubescens Fr., by Mary Elizabeth ...
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Lilian Holt (1898-1983) Retrospective In Charcoal And Oil
Lilian Holt studied at the Putney Art School and was a founding member of the Borough Group, a collective of painters ...
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How crumbling 1890s brick buildings became a Kalamazoo hub for innovation
The old brick buildings on Fulford Street in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood could’ve remained crumbling husks of Kalamazoo’s ...
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AN ALBUM OF TWELVE EROTIC PAINTINGS INK AND COLOUR ON SILK, ALBUM OF TWELVE LEAVES, DYNASTY QING, 19TH CENTURY
21.1 x 22.6 cm. (8.3 x 8.9 in.) ...
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The Door of the Fold
96 x 65 cm. (37.8 x 25.6 in.) ...