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Bourke-White--World's Highest.jpg

bowler lilies and shell@3x.jpg
Half a dozen lily flowering tulips are depicted in a milk glass vessel known as a “hand vase,” a popular design during the 1870s-80s. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Bowler’s composition is how a soft opalescence is carried across a conch…

BowlerHarold - Tang Figurine.JPG
Light pastels of white, red, green, and silver create a delicate and private image of an East Asian figurine behind a short pot of flowers, possibly lilies. The background is very bare and gray-scale, emphasizing the bright colors of the flowers. The…

Bowler--Still Life in the Window.jpg
Bowler uses fine strokes to create a vibrant display of red and pink tulips spiraling outwards amidst a mass of strong, green leaves in a unique, white cornucopia vase. The arrangement is placed directly in the daylight on a white window bench along…

BowlerHarold - Lilies and Shell.jpg
It’s possible that the flowers depicted in this still life are wild mountain lilies (Lilium auratum), also called the golden-rayed lily of Japan. Whatever the case, flowers’ size and colorful radials draw our attention inward—which is similar in…

Brackett--Trout.jpeg

Brandfield--Summer in the Berkshires.jpg
This landscape portrays the rural mountainous region in western Massachusetts known as the Berkshires. Sketched entirely in black and white, the rolling hills and clusters of trees appear almost gloomy. A series of farms, divided by thin wire fences,…

Braverman--Child Labor.jpg

Braverman--House Drudge.jpg

Braverman--The Coming Nation.jpg
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