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Men's religious society in Avon, NY is part of the worldwide Society of the Holy Name. This photograph shows several members hosting Rev. Adam J. Otterbein, who co-founded the Holy Shroud Guild in 1951, devoted to study of the Shroud of Turin.This…

This striking landscape is organized around the single arc of a highway that divides the space into two sectors: above, a brightly lit realm of forests and mountain ridges; below, a shadowed landscape of brown fields, a diseased tree, and a…

Luminous still life is not so much about the objects arranged here but how the light plays off them. In a cobolt-blue vase decorated with a rose pattern, we see a bouquet of roses at their peak of beauty and nearly glowing in the soft light. As a…

Oil painting of Greenich Village nightlife location dismissed by a Federal Writers Project description as "an uninteresting hodgepodge of buildings of varying sizes and ages, suggesting little of the charm that lies beyond its limits." In 1982, a…

A beautiful and delicately lit scene of trees in a field of snow suggests, via its background, that we are in a valley at some considerable elevation. Against the placid light and colors is an arrangement of trees that reveal the struggle for…

This dramatic view of a coastal shoreline and shipwreck is lit with the light pinks and blues of twilight. At left, a rocky coast and cliffs in the background; in the foreground, breaking waves and foamy aquamarines. The abandoned ship itself tilts…