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November 2003 |
| The artist Domenikos Theotokopoulos--El Greco--intorduced "such as extravagant style that to this day nothing has been seen to equal it," noted 17th-century writer Jose Martinez. "Attempting to discuss it would confuse the soundest minds." |
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March 2006 |
| The innovative pioneer, renowned in his lifetime as "The Master of Aix," died 100 years ago "on the eve of a revolution in art that his work had firmly set in motion." |
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March 2002 |
| An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art represents some of the most-aesthetically compelling and intellectually intriguing works from the 20th century. |
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November 2010 |
| "Hundreds of hours go into working the stone down to paper-thin walls, bringing out the gorgeous natural quality and colors of the agate and the transparency of the rock crystal." |
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July 2020 |
| "There are more stories to tell about Africa's role in art history than about one-sided influence, and this exhibition seeks to reassert Africa's role in the narrative of art history." |
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November 2019 |
| "[George R.] Anthonisen thinks deeply about the human condition, as he distills major events into a focused examination of figural gestures." |
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May 2011 |
| "Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals" presents dazzling cityscapes that represent the best view painters of Venice--each responding to the city in his own way. |
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November 2005 |
| "Tasha Tudor's art . . . Has an old-fashioned charm. The scenes she paints are mostly of happy family outings, animals, sunshine, laughter, simplicity, and peace, depicting a way of life many yearn for but few achieve." |
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November 2004 |
| An extraordinary exhibition of one of the foremost private collections ever assembled brings to life a vibrant nation through its captivating people and breathtaking landscapes. |
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November 2009 |
| "He loved to paint pictures that conveyed stories about people, their attitude toward each other, and his feelings about them." |
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November 2007 |
| Watercolor, notes artist Barbara Ernst Prey, "develops on its own. . . . You have an idea, but the beauty is in the process. . . . It's so fluid, and accidents can happen." |
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January 2001 |
| A touring exhibition of paintings and sculptures reflects the growing self-awareness and optimism of the new nation. |
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November 2010 |
| "This highly important collection, never before on public exhibit, portrays the spirit of America's sons and daughters who have answered the call to defend our nation." |
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January 2002 |
| The Amon Carter Museum's collection chronicles all aspects of western life, from the 1840s to the present. |
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September 2010 |
| Nature provides the perfect inspiration for The Society of Animal Artists and its 50th anniversary celebration. |
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July 2005 |
| "It's a reflection of our culture--men, women, children, minorities--and has been a part of our history stretching back to the early 1800s, and possibly further." |
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July 2019 |
| "[The exhibition] delves into the world of comics and graphic novels and their influence on contemporary artists. Their work defies commonalities, but comes together to present a boldy visual, eye-opening mirror of our contemporary world…" |
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March 2015 |
| "This is not primarily a story of cultural or political divisions, but rather of people coming together from very different backgrounds and moving past perceived divisions to find common ground through music." |
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May 2009 |
| ". . . The unfolding reality [is] that a different [Paul] Cezanne has evolved for each generation, defined by what artists have made of him and passed along to those who came after. It is a continuing story." |
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July 2003 |
| "As the quintessential industrial American city of the early 20th century, Chicago looked west for its economic livelihood, and understood the great western expanse as the true America, the land of opportunity." |
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May 2019 |
| "To men, the bicycle in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they knew in their work and in their play. To women, it was a steed upon which they rode into a new world." |
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July 2007 |
| "In [Barbara Ernst] Prey's paintings, our imaginations are enticed not only by the scenes themselves, but by the exquisitely wrought details that animate the compositions." |
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March 2003 |
| The artist "radically reinvented the way in which the subject of the ballet was observed and understood." |
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November 2018 |
| Eugene Delacroix was a transformative figure in the history of European painting, and his influence significantly shaped what we think of today as modern. This exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience his breathtaking talent and remarkable scope. |
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May 2006 |
| An extraordinary place where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony comes to life in this enchanting exhibition of one of the country's foremost fantasy illustrators. |
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September 2008 |
| "[The American Museum of Natural History] remains, above all, a visual feast, in no small part due to the vivid, lifelike murals that serve as backdrops to so many of the animal dioramas found throughout the great edifice's many exhibition halls." |
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July 2017 |
| "The series speaks to the impermanence of all things. The largest cities, the biggest structures, the most powerful empires--everything dies." |
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September 2003 |
| "A leading chronicler of the American scene between the World War, [the artist] depicted certain truths about our national life that continue to resonate for viewers today." |
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January 2008 |
| "He offers a brand of realism not bound by reality. His work appears at once traditional and modern; his women are erotic and puritanical; and the places he depicts are familiar and foreign, comfortable and disquieting." |
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January 2006 |
| The exhibition, "Spirit of the Holidays," illulminates the season with charming, rarely seen examples of Tasho Tudor's original art for greeting cards and children's books created for those special celebrations. . . ." |
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November 2020 |
| "Inspired by World War I patriotic posters and Rockwell's famed 'Four Freedoms' and civil rights era images . . . The Unity Project follows the century-long traditions by Rockwell and other illustrators to reach a larger public through visual images." |
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March 2020 |
| "The exhibition places U.S. art squarely in the center of a conversation about [the naturalist's] lasting influence, with artworks that reveal how the American wilderness became emblematic of the country's distinctive character." |
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March 2005 |
| Whether in the form of pelts, plumes, prints, or animal symbolism, faunal apparel long has represented one of man's more primal instincts. |
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May 2002 |
| The Broad collections "include some of the most-emblematic works in the history of postwar art." |
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January 2007 |
| This exhibition provides a new perspective on Spanish painting of the past 5 centuries. Comparisons reveal previously unseen links b/n artists working in very different historical contexts, even as they bring the paintings of Spain's Golden Age… |
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September 2004 |
| "For all his accomplishments in other genres, [this great French painter] carried to the end of his career a desire to be recognized as a history painter in the grand academic tradition." |
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September 2003 |
| Highlighting the aesthetic vanguard from Cubism through Abstract Exhibitionism, this wide-ranging exhibition features works by some of the last century's most influential artists. |
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September 2006 |
| "As he veered away from orthodox classicism, [the artist] made his subjects increasingly evocative and dreamlike, sometimes adding a strange, erotic charge." |
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March 2009 |
| The exhibition offers a breathtaking survey of the 17th-century Dutch cityscape, from wide-angle panoramas of the urban skyline w/ its fortifications, windmills, & church steeples, to renderings of daily life along the canals, city streets & town squares. |
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March 2011 |
| These Dutch and Flemish masterworks include paintings, furniture, and decorative arts exceptional for their quality, superb condition, and impeccable provenance. |
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May 2006 |
| "Whether painting the likeness of clerics, aristocrats, luminaries, or friends, [the artist's works] are windows into another being, deeply psychological and multi-layered, as well as a mirror of himself." |
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May 2008 |
| The radical and rebellious 19th-century painter "rejected artistic convention, challenged academic norms, and created artworks that scandalized the public." |
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July 2007 |
| The Muscular Dystrophy Association Art Collection provides vivid proof that the ability to create simply cannot be quelled, no matter what the physical limitations. |
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January 2020 |
| The exhibition highlights the traditional and integral role of Native American women artists in serving the cultural, economical, diplomatic, and domestic needs of their communities, reaching beyond treating these artworks as unattributed representations. |
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July 2001 |
| "His prints and drawings effectively convey Matisse's enduring preoccupation with the female figure and his interest in translating the lines and curves of the human form into seductive patterns." |
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January 2004 |
| The burgeoning French seaside resort culture produced an aesthetic exploration by the artist and his contemporaries that helped usher in the vanguard painting of the Impressionist movement. |
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January 2006 |
| While Rembrandt, Delacroix, and Daumier had a great impact on him, others, such as Matisse and Klee, were early beneficiaries of his example. |
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March 2004 |
| This American expatriate excelled as a painter, printmaker, etcher, lithographer, and gallery designer--all the while doing it his way. |
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July 2003 |
| "The determination to acquire the port of New Orleans coincided with Napoleon's decision to rid himself of France's responsibilities for the La. Territory, beginning fulfillment of Jefferson's dream for a nation which stretched from sea to sea." |
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March 2010 |
| This was "a crucial moment in the history of art, when European painting was undergoing a revolution in style, theme, and technique." |
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July 2002 |
| "The end-of-the-century vogue for postmodern, conceptual portraiture appeared to some critics to arise phoenix-like from a moribund tradition. The evidence [of the drawings in the National Portrait Gallery's touring exhibition] suggests otherwise." |
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March 2008 |
| "[Asher B. Durand] belonged to a generation of artists who felt a special kinship to landscape. [His] entire body of work expresses quintessential ideals about environment, national character, and the wonders of untamed nature." |
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September 2019 |
| "No other [Supreme Court] Justice…has so captured the public's imagination. Her every utterance is clickbait and, since 2013, there have been countless homemade [Ruth Bader Ginsburg] costumes, cocktails, ice cream flavors, and more." |
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September 2009 |
| "A lot has happened recently in paleontology. . . . We wanted to give visitors a new look at the evolution of life on Earth, and the scientific evidence on which that story is based." |
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November 2009 |
| This exhibition examines artists' evolving styles & standards of storytelling in relation to the themes of childhood, marriage, family, & community; the production & reinforcement of citizenship; attitudes towards race; the frontier as reality & myth. . . |
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July 2002 |
| No matter where he traveled, the artist absorbed the sights and subjects encountered there into his own unique vision. |
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November 2003 |
| "Significant artists are often those figures who make bold and difficult transitions, whose works reflect not only the aspirations and anxieties of their own generation, but of those that came before and after." |
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November 2011 |
| "Camille Pissarro was a committed reader of radical social, political, and economic theory. His profound knowledge of social philosophy, which informs much of his art, far exceeds that of any other significant painter of the period." |
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May 2003 |
| "Often, it is only when divergent artists are brought together under the auspices of an exhiition that viewers realize how much they have in common." |
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March 2004 |
| He radically redefined the technique of etching by bringing to it the freedom of spontaneity of painting and drawing--a rarity of his time, he drew primarily to capture life and stimulate his imagination, not just to make sketches preparatory to painting. |
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July 2007 |
| Psychedelic art, distinguished by its use of exhuberant color, ornamental forms, and formally complex, obsessively detailed compositions, represented expanded or altered states of consciousness induced by music, light, meditation, & hallucinogenic drugs. |
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September 2017 |
| Shania Twain has sold more albums than any other female country artist in history. No wonder she was asked to perform at halftime of Super Bowl XXXVII. |
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January 2007 |
| The most expressive and wild-tempered artist of his generation, Girodet was commissioned by some of the biggest names in France, and gave free rein to his imagination in executing an impressive array of brilliant paintings. |
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May 2005 |
| "His work embraced psychoanalysis, modern science, and religious mysticism, redefined the boundaries of art, fashion, and popular culture in ways that we are only now beginning to understand." |
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July 2001 |
| From the Roaring Twenties to postwar prosperity, a changing nation is portrayed in a traveling exhibition of paintings and sculptures. |
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July 2004 |
| Viewers can "reassess the artist's unique status as a draughtsman, colorist, theorist, and 'painter of modern life,' as well as his talent in relation to his forebears and contemporaries. |
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January 2005 |
| "The Royal Court . . . Used the enlargement of the Spanish realm not only to increase the Crown's resources, but to gather knowledge that enriched European understanding of the wider world." |
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May 2003 |
| "The genius of [the] 19th-century artists lay in how they transformed the bracing realism of Spanish art into a new manner of painting, a different way of capturing on canvas the modern world around them." |
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January 2018 |
| Renaissance artist Fra Angelico was celebrated in his own time as the most-famous painter in Italy. With remarkable ingenuity and rare technicial expertise, he reconceived popular compositions and infused familiar Christian stories with new meaning. |
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July 2008 |
| "The term 'evolution' suggests change over time, and this exhibit proposes that the U.S. is a dynamic nation in a constant state of redefinition." |
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May 2006 |
| National Geographic's illustrators "serve as trusted interpreters of complex information with images that astound and delight, allowing readers to see things that never actually could be observed without an artist's intervention." |
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| During the 1890s, the artists known as the Nabis (prophets) broke with academic tradition to create works of unorthodox sizes and shapes in which the decorative elements of line and color took on an importance & meaning beyond that of the subject matter. |
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September 2018 |
| ". . . The exhibition will chronicle all aspects of the artist's 72-year career, from his earliest published drawings and iconic inventions to his Pulitzer prize-winning political cartoons and beyond." |
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September 2005 |
| The 80-year-old magazine "is the only remaining wide-circulation publication that still relies on freestanding illustrated covers." |
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November 2008 |
| "Other than humans themselves, the horse is perhaps the single most important species in human history. The story of how we have shaped horses and how horses have shaped up is profound and complex. . . ." |
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January 2019 |
| "This exhibition is a chance to gian a deeper understanding of how the shifting cultural climate of the time s[urred artistic innovation and gave rise to some of the most-beloved wprks of Western art in all of history." |
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November 2003 |
| "Following the end of the [French emperor's] regime, a new array of attitudes and aesthetic sensibilities celebrated extremes of emotion, the irrational, and the power of nature to awe and inspire." |
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May 2002 |
| The artists commissioned by the Medicis "brought to their subjects not only a masterly technique, but a freshness and originality of style that would have a lasting influence on botanical illustration and the art of naturalistic painting." |
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July 2007 |
| "Not long after her death, literary and visual representations of [this French heroine] began to circulate widely and set important precedents for how she would be portrayed in the centuries to come." |
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January 2003 |
| ". . . Michelangelo and the Medici grand dukes, sharing a voracious intellectual curiosity and an awareness of the power of images, shaped the artistic, political, and cultural identity of Renaissance Florence." |
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November 2002 |
| "As Miro had wanted them to be, the colorful works were particularly shocking, and also fool of mischief and sly humor." |
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May 2010 |
| "Running against the tide of popular opinion, the notion that 'a picture which does not tell its own story is but half a picture,' [Winslow] Homer was ever-willing to leave a narrative silence in his art. . . ." |
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May 2004 |
| ". . . In order to be viewed as serious professional artists, these women chose to forego the very domestic life they so romantically portrayed." |
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July 2011 |
| These works--ranging from the illustrative to the abstract--present a different view of NASA than the one in history books or news shows. |
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July 2013 |
| Generally, it has fallen to history museums to orgainze exhibitions about wars, but the works of art in this exhibition chronicle how genre and landscape painters and photographers responded to the coming of the war and its aftermath. . . . |
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| "[It] stands out . . . as a singular achievement in American art of the period, one that, among other effects, served to legitimize modern mural painting as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project in the 1930s." |
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| "The earliest contact between Europeans and indigenous populations created a crisis in identity and self-repressentation, eventually leading to a new culture born of a mix of creative energies confidently expressed in the arts in novel mediums/styles." |
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| The gallery houses the most-important municipal collection in Great Britain of renowned artists who worked in France from the late 19th to the mid 20th century. |
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| During a period of disunity in China's history, new religious, ethnic, and commercial influences transformed its culture. |
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January 2011 |
| The exhibition combines the beauty of nature with the creativity of human artistry. |
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September 2004 |
| This exhibit has "a remarkable ensemble of paintings by the most significant figures of the early modern period . . . [showing] art as evolving from 19th-century Realism towards an increasing 'idealism' of spirituality and inner clarity." |
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November 2001 |
| "Aside from the real or imagined beauty of their female subjects, artists celebrated their exemplary virtues--modesty, piety, and, above all, chastity, the preeminent quality of a woman in a patriarchal society." |
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May 2012 |
| This powerful exhibition explores this classical theme and its place in the development of modern art. |
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November 2007 |
| Mindful of the recent catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina, this exhibition reminds viewers that the line of demarcation between Louisiana's land and water is vague and ever-changing. |
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May 2004 |
| "Diverse and deeply rooted in personal aesthetic and philosophy, [these] compelling images engage the eye and imagination while satisfying the needs of commerce in its many facets." |
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Museums Today |
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July 2010 |
| The French Masters' tale pm the fairer sex--19th century style. . . . |
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