Faye Anderson, a public policy consultant and community historian, was on her way to Independence Hall a couple of weeks ago ...
A new installation at the two-hundred-year-old Brooklyn Museum presents a moving and persuasive rethinking of American art.
Raphael and Titian but they weren’t European artists — they belonged to a dynasty of American painters descended from Charles Willson Peale. Peale descendants, including some artists, will meet June ...
click image for close-up Like many of Charles Willson Peale's portraits, his 1783 oil painting of Benjamin Rush sought to portray the intellectual qualities and political sensibilities of the subject.
click image for close-up Although he was known primarily as a portraitist, Charles Willson Peale's The Accident on Lombard Street provides an example of how Peale used his work to make statements ...
In 2018 I published an article about my discovery of three miniatures of John Hancock and his two children who died young (Figs. 1–3).