NY families from centuries past on view at N-YHS.('Group Dynamics: Family, Portraits and Scenes of Everyday Life' )(Brief article)

From: Art Business News | Date: June 1, 2006 | Copyright information

NEW YORK -- "Group Dynamics: Family, Portraits and Scenes of Everyday Life," is on display through Sept. 17, at the N-Y Historical Society (N-YHS). The exhibit of portraits, sculptures and daguerreotypes reveal family, group and class dynamics of wealthy and middle-class 18th and 19th century Americans.

The exhibition, which represents more than 100 years of American portraiture, will feature 90 works ranging from masterpieces of colonial, federal, and Victorian-era pain...

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