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When he received his first one-man exhibition, in New York City at the Wakefield Gallery in 1943, Theodoros Stamos was just 20 years of age, but already his internalized biomorphic tendencies placed him well within the orbit of nascent Abstract…

The condition of this page from Anton Koberger’s edition of Lives of the Saints is not bad considering it was printed more than five hundred years ago. Nonetheless, since that time it has suffered nearly the full range of the kind of damage that…

Faced with the grim prospect of attending military school at the height of the Russo-Japanese War, Yasuo Kuniyoshi persuaded his parents to allow him to instead pursue a career as an artist in the United States. After three years at the Los Angeles…

Following the exhibition, Island Hay will be sent to conservation for treatment of the somewhat severe burning, but with the expectation that the results will be similar to what was achieved in Spring Tryout (Palmer Museum of Art, 91.80). Like most…

Edwin Whitefield was a largely self-taught artist who worked first in his native England and then in Canada for at least a decade before immigrating to the United States around 1837. He settled in the New York City area, sketching along the Hudson…

Albert Newsam, one of the leading artists working for Peter Duval’s lithography company, specialized in rendering portraits on stone. Here he reproduces a painting by John Francis of Joseph Ritner, the eighth Governor of Pennsylvania who in 1938…

After earning a B. F. A. from the University of Illinois, Andrew Rush elected to pursue his master’s degree at the University of Iowa, where he served as a graduate teaching assistant with the legendary printmaker Mauricio Lasansky. He received his…

Plate 41 from George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Histoire naturelle, générale et párticulière, supplément, tome III The mountain lion of Pennsylvania, mascot of Penn State since 1908, has many names: puma, deer tiger, panther, cougar, and…

After partnering with Thaddeus Fowler in Milwaukee during the early 1870s, Oakley Bailey moved in 1875 to Cambridge, Massachusetts, his wife's hometown, and set up his own lithography firm in Boston. Although Connecticut and Massachusetts towns…

Landscape painter Charles Louis Fussell was born and raised in the Philadelphia area. Just before the start of the Civil War, and for several years after, he trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. From the late 1860s until his death in…