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Box, unknown Mi’kmaq artist.  Nova Scotia, Canada; late 1800s.  Birchbark, dyed spruce root, dyed porcupine quills.  Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont. Made for the Trade: Native American Objects in the Winterthur Collection will be on View March 1 at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Release Date: 15 February 2011
Native American decorative arts and craft works—acquired by H. F. du Pont and a long-overlooked part of the Winterthur collection—are highlighted in this small but powerful collection. While some of the works presented were crafted for Native American use, this unique exhibition concentrates ...

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John Marin, United States, 1870 - 1953 Island (Ship’s Stern), 1934, watercolor on paper, 17 x 22 inches.  Private collection, courtesy Meredith Ward Fine Art, New York.  © Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Although John Marin (1870-1953) was regarded as one of America’s most important painters at the time of his death, scholarship and museum exhibitions to date have focused on his early ...
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Will Barnet (b.  1911) Self-Portrait, 1952–53 Oil on canvas © Will Barnet Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas 1999.5 Will Barnet: Relationships, Intimate and Abstract, 1935–1965
June 18 - December 31, 2011
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Fort Worth, Texas
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Paul Caponigro, Self-portrait Paul Caponigro to Receive Farnsworth’s 2011 Maine in America Award At June 25th Farnsworth Summer Gala
Release Date: 15 February 2011
The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, is proud to announce Paul Caponigro as the recipient of the 2011 Maine in America Award. The award is presented by the Farnsworth's Presidents Council to honor an individual or group who has made an outstanding contribution to Maine's role in American ...

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