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In subject matter if not in style, there are resemblances between this painting and Georges Seurat’s famous A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, but even more so William Blake’s “The Echoing Green.” Here the spirit seems exuberant as the painting's…

Named in honor of Gen. James Wadsworth, killed in the Civil War, this location at the entrance to New York Harbor always has been strategic and featured batteries since Europeans arrived in America.About the Artist: Born in Shelbyville, IN, Ross was…

As the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT explains: "European Cabinets of Art and Curiosity were places of universal learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....They were the museums of their time, offering visitors first-hand knowledge of…

One of photographer Arthur Rothstein's famous series of photographs chronicling the Dust Bowl. This item has a full-size file, and one cropped for use in a Juxtapose JS application used in the OpenValley exhibit Green New Deal: Conservation.

Created by the Federal Art Project Poster Division, this advertises a show staged by the Albany Institute of History and Art. It appears to have supported "The Art Caravan," a traveling exhibition of paintings accompanied by lecturer Judson Smith.…

Golden light from low in the sky, at right, evokes a moment of gratitude for a year’s harvest—seemingly of corn shocks drying in the field. A person carrying a stick pause in front of one. Lush fields, green trees, and a gorgeous sky are shown to…