If Mitt Romney had beaten Barack Obama in 2012, he would have the distinction of being the only American president with an important Old Master painter in his ancestry, having descended from George Romney, one of the finest portraitists in eighteenth-century England and the subject of the new exhibition, Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England, at the Yale Center for British Art. ⬬
Posters calling for federal farm benefits. A warning that “Inflation means Depression.” ⬬
In Jan van Kessel’s Noah’s Family Assembling Animals before the Ark, the antediluvian world is presented as Earth in need of a hyper-taxonomy, rather than the biblical drama of destruction. ⬬
For someone who proudly called himself the “painter of Maine,” Marsden Hartley certainly strayed far from the part of the world where he was born and raised and where he died. ⬬
In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Nautilus shell lamps by Moritz Hacker ⬬
In their own words: Objects of obsession from a group of young collectors at the forefront of a new collecting culture. Vintage Gold Dress ⬬
Artist Pablo Bronstein on collecting as a form of self-fashioning—baroque, compulsive, occasionally corrosive, but ultimately irresistible. ⬬
Period rooms have always told stories. The question is—whose? ⬬
Organized to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Historic Trappe’s Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road explores the evolution of Pennsylvania German folk art as settlers moved west. ⬬
An exciting new exhibition awaits at Historic Deerfield in Massachusetts.