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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Friday, May 17, 2013

Eastman Johnson, The Girl I Left Behind Me, 1870-1875, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible in part by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice in memory of her husband and by Ralph Cross Johnson.

The Civil War and American Art Opens at the Met
Release Date: 16 May 2013
Because the American Civil War threatened both the founding principles and the viability of the republic, the nation’s entire population was deeply affected by the fact of the conflict and its outcome. The major loan exhibition The Civil War and American Art, which will be on view at The ...

Poster Mania! opens at the Currier this summer.

Celebrate Leisure, Romance and Adventure in 1890s New England with Poster Mania! at the Currier Museum of Art

Although it is difficult to imagine, posters were once among the most popular collectable objects in America. Poster Mania! Leisure, Romance and Adventure in 1890s America, on view at the ...

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	Rembrandt Peale portrait of George Washington achieves $662,500 to lead Heritage Auctions’ two-day, $4.5+ million American art events Release Date: 16 May 2013 Rembrandt Peale’s iconic portrait of U.S. President George Washington – created in the artist’s lifelong quest to paint the most recognizable image of the “Father of the United States” – realized a new world record for a porthole portrait by the artist when it sold for $662,500 to lead Heritage ... Read more

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