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Hughie Lee-Smith Hughie Lee-Smith
Hughie Lee-Smith 1915– Artist, educator At a Glance… Gravitated Toward Artistic Group in 1940s Painted Murals on African Americans in History for U.S. Navy Style Evolved From Realism to Surrealism Brush Captured Racial and Urban Isolation Selected works Sources Like his paintings,... Read more
Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with a core group of 700 art objects, many from her own collection. The museum was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914-18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918-28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries... Read more
George Spelvin George Spelvin
Spelvin, George. This name was given to a character or an actor in a play to hide his real identity. It was employed as early as 1886 by Charles A. Gardner in his Karl, the Peddler. William Collier jokingly credited Spelvin as co‐author of Hoss and Hoss (1893). Its use was most widely... Read more
Sir Francis Seymour Haden Sir Francis Seymour Haden
Sir Francis Seymour Haden , 1818-1910, English etcher, writer, and surgeon. He was a successful practicing surgeon in London (1847-87) and founded there a hospital for the treatment of incurable diseases, but is better known as an etcher and an authority on etching. He did much to familiarize the... Read more
Lane Smith Lane Smith
Smith, Lane 1959-PersonalBorn August 25, 1959, in Tulsa, OK; son of Lewis (an accountant) and Mildred Annette (a homemaker) Smith; married Molly Leach (a designer), 1996. Education: Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA), B.F.A. (illustration), 1983.AddressesHome—Washington Depot, CT.... Read more
Museum of Modern Art Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, established and incorporated in 1929. It is privately supported. Alfred H. Barr , Jr., was its first director. Operating at first in rented galleries, the museum specialized in loan shows of contemporary European and American art. A start toward its... Read more
Gerard Ter Borch Gerard Ter Borch
Gerard Ter Borch , 1617-81, Dutch genre and portrait painter. He studied with his father and traveled throughout Europe, showing extraordinary precocity in his early work. In 1648 he attended the congress at Münster and painted portraits of the delegates that he incorporated in his celebrated... Read more
museums of science museums of science
museums of science institutions or buildings where collections relevant to science and technology are preserved and displayed to promote education and research. While the preponderance of these museums are in North America and Europe, the chief cities of Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Latin... Read more

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