Artist: William Kent (1685 - 1748)
Nationality: British
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Media: Architecture, Design, Painting
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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William Rimmer, American (born in England), 1816-1879 Mrs. Robert Restiaux Kent (Eliza F. Watson) about
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Samuel Lancaster Gerry, American, 1813-1891 John Oscar Kent and His Sister, Sarah Eliza Kent 1844
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pembury Mill, Kent etching and mezzotint 1808
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William Finden Dover, Kent, plate opposite page 153 of volume 1 in the book The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot by W.H. Bartlett; with Descriptions by William Beattie, M.D. (Lond
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William Kent Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) Book with 52 engravings and uncounted ornamental end pieces 1729
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William Kent The Pin and the Needle, plate for Fable XVI on page 61 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Two Monkeys, plate for Fable XL on page 150 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Court of Death, plate for FableXLVII on page 178 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Lion, the Tiger, and the Traveler, plate for Fable I on page 1 in the book, Fables (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) Engraving 1729
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William Kent The Poet and the Rose, plate for Fable XLV on page 171 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Jugglers, plate for Fable XLII on page 158 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Elephant and the Bookseller, plate for Fable X on page36 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Miser and Plutus, plate for Fable VI on page 21 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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Robert Brandard Broadstairs, Kent, plate opposite page 139 of volume 2 in the book The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot by W.H. Bartlett; with Descriptions by William Beattie, M.D.
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William Kent The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy, plate for Fable III on page11 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Lady and the Wasp, plate for Fable VIII on page 29 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Persian, the Sun, and the Cloud, plate for Fable XXVIII on page 107 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Father and Jupiter, plate for Fable XXXIX on page 146 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent Pythagoras and the Countryman, plate for Fable XXXVI on page 136 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Courtier and Proteus, plate for Fable XXXIII on page 125 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Two Owls and the Sparrow, plate for Fable XXXII on page 122 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Unversal Apparition, plate for Fable XXXI on page 117 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Sick Man and the Angel, plate for Fable XXVII on page 103 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Butterfly and the Snail, plate for Fable XXIV on page 92 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent Cupid, Hymen, and Plutus, plate for Fable XII on page 45 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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Edward Francis Finden Folkestone, Kent, plate opposite page 129 of volume 1 in the book The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot by W.H. Bartlett; with Descriptions by William Beattie,
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Ebenezer Challis Sandwich (Kent), plate opposite page 145 of volume 2 in the book The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain Illustrated by Views Taken on the Spot by W.H. Bartlett; with Descriptions by William Beattie, M.D.
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William Kent The Painter Who Pleased Nobody and Everybody, plate for Fable XVIII on page 68 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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William Kent The Shepherd and the Philosopher, plate for the Introduction to the Fables on first introductory page in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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Unidentified artist, Italian (Roman), 17th century Poppies in a Wine Flask Oil on canvas 65.1
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La duchesse de Kent (1843) by anonyme
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Le duc de Kent (1843) by anonyme
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Rockwell Kent And How Where? Lithograph 1936
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Robert Kent Thomas St. Albans Abbey ET 1876
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Rockwell Kent The End Wood engraving 1927
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Rockwell Kent Almost Wood engraving 1929
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Charles I. Grignion William Duke of Cumberland 18th - 19th century
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Robert Kent Thomas Abbey Church St. Albans 1876
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Richard Hamilton Kent State Screenprint 1970
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Rockwell Kent Revisitation Lithograph, zinc 1928
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Rockwell Kent Pasture Gate Lithograph 1928
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Rockwell Kent Foreboding Lithograph, zinc 1926
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Samuel Prout Waterfall in Kent Watercolor on paper 19th century
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Edmund Evans The Art Album. Sixteen Facsimiles of Water-Colour Drawings (London: W. Kent and Co., 1861) Book with 16 color wood engravings 1861
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Rockwell Kent Convalescent Linoleum cut or woodcut 1920
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Rockwell Kent Revisitation Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Rockwell Kent Twilight of Man Wood engraving 1926
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Rockwell Kent And Women Must Weep Lithograph 1937
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Rockwell Kent Portrait of T. M. Cleland Lithograph 1929
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Protection, Rockwell Kent (United States, New York, Tarrytown, 1882 - 1971) , 1921, Woodcut
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Rockwell Kent Self-Portrait, Reading in Winter Woodcut 1930 - 1935
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Rockwell Kent Self-Portrait Offset lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Rockwell Kent Workers of the World, Unite woodcut 19th - 20th century
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Side Show, Peter Blake (England, Kent, Dartford, born 1932-06-02) , 1974-1978, Etchings
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Rockwell Kent Greenland Mother Nursing a Child Lithograph 1934
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Souvenir for Kitaj, Peter Blake (England, Kent, Dartford, born 1932-06-02) , 1974, Collage
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Portrait of Ed Ruscha, Kent Twitchell (United States, Michigan, Detroit, born 1942) , 1978, Pencil
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Portrait of D. J. Hall, Kent Twitchell (United States, Michigan, Detroit, born 1942) , 1980, Pencil
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Rockwell Kent Workers of the World Unite Wood engraving 1937
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Artist: Rockwell Kent and Vernon Kilns Title: Our America: Chop Plate Date: 1940 Medium: ceramic,

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Breslin Fine Arts, Inc.: We Can Create Life Without War: A Retrospective Exhibit of the Works of Corita Kent
The work is deceptively simple: bright swatches of color interspersed with text. But the verbal play, visual puns and imaginative use of calligraphy and block letters, sometimes in the form of popular slogans, bits of poetry, word or sentence frag...
Ashford Library Gallery: Exhibition of work by Mary Chaplin, Liz Garnett, Donna Hawkes-Baines and Marion Lynn
The artists, Mary Chaplin, Liz Garnett, Donna Hawkes-Baines and Marion Lynn, met at college and have remained firm friends. This is the first time they have worked together on a project and Liz Garnett the project co-ordinator says it has b...
Portland Museum of Art: Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern
One of the great painters of his day, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) made innovations that reverberated through American culture in the first half of the 20th century. He rose to prominence between the world wars as a painter of extraordinary power who...
Asylum Gallery: Call for Artists: National Juried Digital Art and Photography Exhibition
Notifications of acceptance will be e-mailed October 14, 2008. Work is due by November 5th. The Exhibit will run from November 15 to December 21, 2008. For more details and a prospectus/entry form, please email info@asylumgallery.net, or check t...
Tiger Inn: Colours by Salon 67
David Bebbington's objective is to produce 21st century images in the tradition of abstract photography begun by Edward Weston. His work in this exhibition relates to this and in particular his interest with regard to landscape work and in the i...
Art Space Gallery: George Rowlett: Prime Elements
Working directly from the subject, the surface of his canvases are built up often with extraordinary speed to a rich and succulent impasto where colour and surface combine to convey atmosphere, light and mass. Rowlett delights in the properties...
Danish Architecture Center : Futures to Come: Architecture, Building, and Business
Fewer blind spots in the building process The new 3D real-time technology offers the industry a visual tool that can be used by all parties involved in the building process because it makes it possible to literally 'step right into' an archite...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: THE DARKER SIDE OF PLAYLAND: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection
While many of the images in the exhibition are normally associated with childhood happiness, others implicate issues of violence in society and cultural identity. Artists represented in the exhibition include David Levinthal, Lau...
Peabody Essex Museum: To the Ends of the Earth, Painting the Polar Landscape
Driven by the promise of adventure, fame and spiritual fulfillment, artists risked their lives to witness scientific missions, personal journeys and officially sanctioned exploration. The polar environment provided ideal scenery for two major mari...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: SUPERNOVA: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection
The exhibition takes its title from Takashi Murakami’s tour de force painting Super Nova, 1999, which depicts “the destruction of an earthly terrain by atomic weapons whose mushroom clouds are rendered in ravishingly colorful detail,” according to...
Blue Caterpillar Art Gallery: Wendy Mills
Wendy Mills was named "Top Seller in 2004" at one of South Africa's largest art shows, which confirms her reputation as one of the regions top artists. Her work is displayed in galleries in the UK, Zimbabwe and South Africa and in private homes ar...
San Francisco Art Institute: Connie Samaras: 2002 Adaline Kent Award Exhibition, Angelic States - Event Sequence

Biggs Museum of American Art: Sitting Pretty: Chairs in 18th Century Delaware
Chairs are taken for granted today, but that was not the case in Colonial America. One historian notes that In the mid-1700's, between 65 and 68 per cent of inventories list chairs in Delaware's Kent and New Castle Counties, as wcl1 as in neighbou...
King County Public Art Program: Call for Digital Media Artists Living in King County, WA
Artist Fee: $5000
Deadline for Entry: 4:30 p.m. on Monday, July 9, 2001 Who Should ApplyNULL We are looking for emerging and established professional artists interested in: - collaborating with young artists to create ...
Frye Art Museum: Scenes of American Life
Scenes of American Life is one of eight exhibitions in Treasures to Go, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, touring the nation through 2002, while the museum is undergoing a major renovation. The Frye is one of the fortunate sites select...
Muse 269 Gallery: Charlie Warde: A Solo Show of Paintings and Drawings
The paintings exhibited are worked in traditional medium of oil on canvas and his subject matter is of recent landscapes painted in North England at his fathers farm in Kent. Concerned with all aspects of colour and design, he attempts to ‘bend th...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens: Benjamin Bricknell Turner
Known for his beautiful early photographs of rural England, Turner was one of the first, and remains one of the most respected, of all British photographers. Between 1852 and 1854 he compiled 60 of his photographs under the title Photographic Vi...
Chatham Cultural Centre, Thames Art Gallery: Dehuman: Works by Daniel Erban, Dennis Jones, Ed Pien and Balint Zsako
The exhibition is travelling to Gallery Lambton in Sarnia and to WKP Kennedy Gallery in North Bay. Dennis Jones states, "Most of my work explores aspects of vanity. The current series plays with our desire to accumulate recognition and appr...
Slater Memorial Museum: Connecticut Women Artists Juried Exhibition
For 75 years, Connecticut Women Artists, Inc. has provided a forum for women's artwork and continues to emphasize the value of art for our society today. The group sponsors two juried exhibitions annually at varying galleries in Connecticut. ...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: Margaret Morton: The Tunnel
Residents dwell in continual darkness, constructing homes of cinder-block bunkers and freestanding hand-made structures in alcoves and on ledges. With sensitivity and compassion, Margaret Morton has chronicled the lives and living spaces of the tu...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Sam Durant: MATRIX 147
Recent works have referred to the four deaths at the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont in 1969; a Robert Smithson earthwork created on the Kent State University Campus in 1970, a few months before four students, protesting the war in Cambodia, we...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland: Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson: Energy Forms
For her large scale weavings, Jónsson's process begins with the unique translation of a photograph into a loose abstract sketch known as a cartoon. She places this image beneath sets of separately strung warp and weft threads and subsequently pain...
Riffe Gallery: Narratives : Paintings by Ohio Artists

Collection of the artist View more of Ron Andersons work in his portfolio at absolutearts.com http://www.absolutearts.com/rastudio.>The twelve Ohio artists in this exhibition make pain...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Alan Reynolds: 50 Years after the Royal College of Art
A quest for structure and equilibrium has always been at the heart of Reynolds' work. His engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by Constable and Samuel Palmer ...
Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea: Over One Hundred absolutearts.com Artists to Participate in the Fourth Edition of the Florence Biennale
Internationally renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude will present a projection on their work at the 5th Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art on Thursday, December 8, 2005, at 5pm. At the conclusion of the presentation, Pasqual...
Tate Britian: Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean trained as a painter and now works in a variety of media, including drawing, photography and sound, but is best known for her 16mm films, of which she has made seventeen to date. The specific qualities associated with film making are o...
Frye Art Museum: The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing
The scope of subject matter extends from nudes to narrative, while styles range from spontaneous to painstaking renderings. The wide range of movements, linear rhythms, and points of view depicted with technical virtuosity and extraordinary draugh...
Institute for Cinema and Culture: Thaw 00
Why ThawNULL The name was chosen for its implications of emergence, movement, transition and change. Appropriately, the festival occurs at the tim...
NSA Gallery: BODIES OF RESISTANCE:

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Witness: Darren Almond, Brenda L. Croft, Zhang Huan, Whitfield Lovell, Walid Ra’ad/The Atlas Group, Fiona Tan
Renowned for his innovative use of video technology young British artist Darren Almond presents Oswiecim (1997), a black and white film work about history, loss and the passing of time. Australian Indigenous artist, curator, lecturer and freelance...
Portland Museum of Art: North and South: Berenice Abbott's U.S. Route 1
What is interesting about this show is that it is a complete body of work in a concentrated time, said Aprile Gallant, Curator of Prints, Drawing, & Photographs. Abbott works to preserve sites that are specifically 1954, rather than documenting t...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Gary Hume
Described by art critic Richard Cork as “one of the most adroit, inspiring and resourceful painters around”, Hume first came to public attention as a result of his participation in the seminal Freeze show in 1988, which featured artists such as ...
William Traver Gallery - Tacoma: Shift: Charlotte Meyer and Maria Phillips
The main element in Shift is a large piece titled “Internal Diversions”, made of glass, steel and silver.  This meticulous hanging sculpture symbolizes both organic systems and physical ornamentation.  The viewer is reflected in its many mirrored ...
Fresh A.I.R. Gallery: A Gift and A Curse: Work by Chris Mohler
History One day at the age of 6, I was on a fire escape of a playhouse theater dropping rocks on soda cans below. My mother, an actress, was inside the first floor rehearsal hall practicing for her starring role in the next production. Her i...
Virginia Historical Society: The Virginia Landscape
More than 240 landscape paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs, dating from the colonial period to the present, reveal much about Virginia's natural history and the attitudes of its citizens. Initially, the commonwealth was best know...
National Hispana Leadership Institute: Call for Artists: NHLI 2009 Mujer Awards
NHLI will credit the artist in promotional materials during and after the conference included but not limited to: 2009 Mujer Award poster, award certificates, program cover, bags, mouse pads, annual report, and NHLI note cards.     Requireme...
Plug In: TROUBLES: Tensions Evident Beneath Surface of Northern Irish Images
As well as making 'straight' photographs of considerable poise, Sloan scores and scratches his negatives and reworks his prints with gouache or crayon. He is best known for his images (measuring between four and six feet wide) of the Or...
Kunsthaus Bregenz: Gary Hume: The Bird Had a Yellow Beak
In the eighties, Gary Hume (born in 1962 in Kent, England) became a star of the Young British Art movement virtually overnight with his "Doors" series. The series comprises some 50 works to date. The Kunsthaus Bregenz shows a representative select...
Kunsthaus Bregenz: Jenny Holzer: Truth Before Power
Almost all texts used by Holzer are US government documents – primarily official communications, reports, and letters made available to the public under the landmark legislation, the “Freedom of Information Act.”  Many texts were originally “class...
Gibbes Museum of Art: Painters of American Life: The Eight AND The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen
Painters of American Life: The Eight In 1908, eight American artists organized an exhibition at Macbeth Galleries in New York that became the talk of the town. Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, ...

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