As my curatorial thesis project, I chose to curate an exhibit of George Washington Morrison's paintings. George Morrison was a well-known portrait painter in New Albany, Indiana during his time here from 1840-1893. His paintings are on display in...
Canvas. Inv. no. L.1828. On loan from the collection of George Schafer, Schweinfurt. This is not in fact a picture of the cemetery of Inning, near Lake Ammer. The artist can only have drawn inspiration from the grave crosses he had seen in Bavaria...
"[...] Uncle Tom and Little Eva depicts a scene in [Harriet Beecher] Stowe's chapter 22, 'The Grass Withereth--The Flowers Fadeth [...] on the mossy banks of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana." (p.155)
Detail of a watercolor copy of a wall painting. "More remarkable still is a painting in one of the older rooms at Çatal Höyük that generally has been acclaimed as the world's first landscape (a picture of a natural setting in its own right,...
Paintings; Landscape paintings; Murals; Buildings; City & town halls; Government facilities; Social & civic facilities; Storytelling; Allegories; Allegorical paintings; Political issues; Politics & government; Municipal government;...
Women in literature--History--19th century; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Materialism in literature; American literature--19th century--Social aspects
This dissertation examines American consumer culture and its influences on images of women created in art and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. It is divided into four substantive parts and uses the methods and theoretical approaches...
