NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020


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On the cover: Detail of Alexander Spotswood Payne [1780–1858] and His Brother John Robert Dandridge Payne [1789–1831], with Their Nurse by William Hodgson, c. 1791. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.


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Features



William Hodgson of London and Richmond

The Payne Limner Revealed

Robert A. Leath and Carolyn J. Weekley

“An unsuspected man of genius”

The Cincinnati Art Museum examines the career of a forgotten favorite son, the artist Frank Duveneck

Thomas Connors

Bluegrass Treasures

A trio of short excerpts from a new book that celebrates the art of the early decades of the commonwealth of Kentucky

Mel Stewart Hankla

“Serenity, even a kind of nobility”

Notes on a trailblazing-yet-forgotten American artist,
Alethea Hill Platt

Eve M. Kahn and Hanna Wells

A Man of Parts

The house and collection built by the visionary director of the
Wadsworth Atheneum “Chick” Austin is as colorful and multifaceted as the man himself

Elizabeth Pochoda

The Exhibition That Never Was

John Leslie Breck’s paintings of Venice

Royal W. Leith