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19th century American art

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Resurrecting the First World’s Fair in the US Through Its Relics

by Allison Meier May 10, 2017May 10, 2017

A Bard Graduate Center exhibition reassembles the forgotten history of New York’s 1853–54 Crystal Palace through rare artifacts.

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Library of Congress Digitizes 19th-Century Photos of Black Women Activists

by Allison Meier April 6, 2017May 23, 2022

The Library of Congress recently digitized rare 19th-century photographs of African American women active in suffrage, civil rights, temperance, education, reform, and journalism.

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Paintings of New York at the Dawn of the Modern Age, Festering Sewers and All

by Allison Meier March 29, 2017May 22, 2017

In the 1870s, New York tinsmith William Chappel painted nearly 30 views of the city of his childhood, when peddlers hawked their wares, whale oil illuminated the night, and fresh water was a scarcity.

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A 12,000-Pound Panorama of a Civil War Battle Is Lifted into Its New Home

by Allison Meier February 17, 2017

The colossal 19th-century painting of the Battle of Atlanta has been hailed as a tribute to both the North and South, and its complicated history will be a focus in its new home at the Atlanta History Center.

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Conserving America’s Longest Painting, a 19th-Century Whaling Panorama

by Allison Meier February 13, 2017February 10, 2017

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is working to put the 1,275-foot “Whaling Voyage Round the World” panorama back on view.

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The Victorian-era Daguerrotypes of Women Breastfeeding

by Allison Meier February 8, 2017February 8, 2017

In the 19th century, just after the daguerreotype’s introduction in the United States, there was a fashionable moment for portraits of women breastfeeding.

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Why Frederick Douglass Was the Most Photographed 19th-Century American

by Allison Meier February 6, 2017February 6, 2017

In a lifelong battle against racist imagery, Frederick Douglass had over 160 portraits taken, which he hoped would create a public acknowledgment of his humanity.

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Revisiting America’s Dead in Posthumous Portraits from the 19th Century

by Allison Meier October 31, 2016November 1, 2016

The 19th century saw the rise of the posthumous portrait when, through photographs and paintings, people preserved the faces of departed loved ones.

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Researchers Unroll a Rare 19th-Century Painted Panorama

by Allison Meier March 7, 2016March 8, 2016

One of the longest paintings ever created is an 1848 depiction of a “whaling voyage ’round the world” that stretches 1,275 feet — roughly the length of 14 blue whales, according to its holder, the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

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Met Envy Apparently Fueled National Gallery of Art’s Interest in Corcoran

by Mostafa Heddaya July 31, 2014July 31, 2014

The chief of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art told a philanthropist that absorbing the failing Corcoran would make “his collection at the National Gallery … greater than the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”

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