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In 1992, anthropologist Jayne Howell was interviewing migrant farmworkers at the Seneca Castle Camp, and noticed a small group creating miniature buildings made of wooden popsicle sticks. An incurious eye might have dismissed them as simplistic, but…

Somewhat of an outlier among the New Deal Gallery paintings, Morton’s composition follows in a tradition of European genre painting. We see a cozily circumscribed group of four people in traditional clothing, gathered under a pool of light and…

Naturalistic landscape of idyllic lake is complicated by Andrews' use of impressionist blocks of color that flatten the picture plane into birch trees and a diorama behind them. Their leaf color suggests a time of late summer which, if true, helps…