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This image incorporates a lot of life within an oddly cropped picture of the Garcia Family. This image gives a look inside of the living conditions of migrant farmworkers, but not through the eyes of someone who knows them as a worker, instead the…

Situated at the northeast end of the pond in Central Park, the Gapstow Bridge was envsioned as part of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's network of trails, tunnels, and bridges--both functional and aesthetically pleasing. This one was…

In this detail from an 1872 map, we can see that the processing of meats took place literally next door to a school

This butcher in Avon, NY did business with the Wadsworth family in the later 19th century

Upon an unadorned table we see a cane basket filled with apples, oranges, and a grapefruit; next to a pitcher, a lemon and another apples. In the absence of drapery or curios, the complexity in this still life comes from subtle elements like the…

On a plain table is placed a bowl of pears and an Italian jug, apparently that same one as appearing in his “Fruit in a Basket" still life. In the jug, we see a bouqet of roses. Light from the ride side of painting casts shadow seemingly upon a wall…

Several stems of pink and white gladiolus are displayed in a pictorial vase, whose unusual scene gestures toward a sailboat alongside a coastal mountain range. Below them on the table are apples, an orange, and a grapefruit. A warm light illuminates…

More than a dozen species of fruit and flowers are mounded on a bed of grass. The painting's upper half, a skillfully mottled background, is crucial for establishing the space necessary to make sense of the lower half--without it, those objects…

A simple still life (perhaps deceptively so) includes as its ostensible objects a Grecian vase, flowers, and red grapes. Whether intentional or not, each element evokes a somewhat different artistic tradition: classical sculpture, informal nature in…

This complex still life plays with how the natural world makes its way into artistic forms and representation. A grouping of fruit at upper left is echoed in the fabric’s shapes at lower right, as with the bell pepper’s distinctive shape. A pear at…