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THE NARRATIVE IMPULSE
IN AMERICAN ART
a personal selection
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| This section is dedicated to lesser known examples of American painting that explore narrative structures. I was disconcerted that, visiting America, art students had only the sketchiest awareness of their own art history. Researching FORTUNE magazine made me aware of the astonishing richness of artists' narratives responding to the complexities of their Society. All the sale catalogues are in my own Library. the scholarship expended on each work of art is formidable. and also deserves to be better known. Students will recognise many from lectures at Norwich and Brighton. Several have been used in lectures on the images of FORTUNE magazine. I have had a warm welcome not least from students in American Art Schools long used to the primacy of Abstraction. |
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JAMES ALLEN, The Connectors, print |
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JAMES ALLEN, The Builders, etching 1933 |
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JOHN ATHERTON, The Black Horse , 1942 |
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MILTON AVERY, Steeplechase 1929 |
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JOHN TAYLOR ARMES, Gates of the City 1922 |
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PEGGY BACON , The Whitney Studio Club (Frenzied Effort) 1925 |
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PEGGY BACON , The Social Graces |
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JOHN BAEDER , '56 Plymouth 1963 |
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ROBERT BECHTLE , Pullman 1974 |
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ROBERT BECHTLE , Roses 1973 |
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J.C.BECKWITH , Portrait of William Walton 1886 |
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GERARDO BELFIORE, Mid City 1937 |
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GEORGE BELLOWS , Wounded Soldier on the Road to Berlin c1915 |
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GEORGE BELLOWS , The Picnic 1924 |
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GEORGE BENEKER , Building Manhattan Bridge |
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THOMAS HART BENTON, Blast Furnace, West Pennsylvania, c1928, Wounded Soldier on the Road to Berlin c1915 |
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THOMAS HART BENTON, Poker Night 1948 after Streetcar |
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THOMAS HART BENTON, America today, mural, 1930 |
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PAUL BERENT, South Avenue El, 1936-7 |
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LEON BIBEL , Red Hot Franks 1938 |
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GEORGE BIDDLE , Society Freed through Justice, mural |
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ALBERT BIERSTADT , Jenny Lake Wyoming after 1881 |
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ALBERT BIERSTADT , Moonli Landscape |
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GUY BILLOUT, Detour , 1982 |
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RALPH BLAKELOCK, The Artist's Garden c 1880 |
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LUCIENNE BLOCH, Land of Plenty, woodcut 1935 |
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ERNEST BLUMENSCHEIN, Taos Valley 1933 |
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PETER BLUME, Vegetable Dinner |
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DAVID GILMOUR BLYTHE , Land of Liberty 1859, Irishman and Cigar Store Indian |
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AARON BOHROD, Landscape near Chicago 1934 |
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GUY PENE DU BOIS, Solitaire 1943 |
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GUY PENE DU BOIS, Country Wedding 1929 |
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GUY PENE DU BOIS, Ladies of Fashion Fourteenth Street |
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RUTHERFORD BOYD , Shanghai Express c1932 |
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ROSS EUGENE BRAUGHT,Dead Chestnut |
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NICHOLAS ALDEN BROOKS, Dollar on the First Race, Saratoga still life |
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ROGER BROWN, Tourists Beware 1985 |
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ROGER BROWN, War Zone 1971 1985 |
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CHARLES BURCHFIELD, Rainy Night 1930 |
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CHARLES BURCHFIELD, Summer Rain 1916 |
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PAUL CADMUS, Study for a David and Goliath |
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PAUL CADMUS, The Fleet's In! |
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PAUL CADMUS, Coney Island 1935 |
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ALEXANDER CALDER , Circus 1926-1931 |
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ALEXANDER CALDER , studio photograph |
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JOHN MARTIN CAMPBELL, photograph Prairie House 1 |
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JOHN MARTIN CAMPBELL, photograph Prairie House 2 |
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LEONORA CARRINGTON, Ab Eo. Quod 1956 |
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CLARENCE HOLBROOK CARTER, Girls I have Known, 1933 |
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CLARENCE HOLBROOK CARTER, Wheeling Steel Mill Portsmouth Ohio1955 |
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CLARENCE HOLBROOK CARTER Springtime in Pittsburgh 1939 |
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ALFREDO CASTANEDA , Requiem for a Friend 1982 |
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FEDERICO CASTELLON Spanish Landscape, litho., 1938 |
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RICHARD CHIRIANI, Morning in the Cleveland Flats, 1979 |
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CARROLL CLOAR , The Lightning that struck Rufo Barcliff 1955 |
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FRANCIS COLBURN, Granite Quarry, 1942 |
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THOMAS COLE , Prometheus Bound 1846-7 |
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MAXIMILIEN COLIN , Woman in an interior 1890-1 |
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GEORGE COPE , The Hunter's Equipment still life 1891 |
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JOSEPH CORNELL , Object (Roses des Vents) 1942 |
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JOSEPH CORNELL , The Sister Shades, front and back 1942 |
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JOSEPH CORNELL , La Favorite 1948 |
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RALSTON CRAWFORD , New Orleans Cemetery 1960 |
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RALSTON CRAWFORD , New Hope Station 1932 |
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RALSTON CRAWFORD , Nacelles under Construction 1945-6 |
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RALSTON CRAWFORD , First Avenue 1954 |
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RALSTON CRAWFORD , Third Avenue El 1954 |
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RALSTON CRAWFORD , Third Avenue El , Number 3 studies 1952 |
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FRANCIS CRISS, Alma Sewing c1940 |
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FRANCIS CRISS, Bird of Prey |
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FRANCIS CRISS, Astor Place 1932 |
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DOUGLAS CROCKWELL Paper Workers, 1934  |
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ROBERT CRUMB Street Corner Daze 1968 two images |
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STUART DAVIS Colonial Cubism 1954 |
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STUART DAVIS Two Figures and EL |
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STUART DAVIS Chinatown 1912 |
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STUART DAVIS Jefferson Market |
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STUART DAVIS Study for Men without Women 1932 |
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STUART DAVIS Art Space No.1 |
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STUART DAVIS Landscape with Garage Lights 1932 |
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STUART DAVIS Study for Package Deal 1946 (for FORTUNE) |
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ADOLPH DEHN, We Nordics, 1931 litho |
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CHARLES DEMUTH Three Plays Stockbridge |
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THOMAS JAMES DELBRIDGE Lower Manhattan |
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CHARLES DELLSCHAU Recollections 1900 |
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PRESTON DICKINSON , Landscape with High Bridge 1922 |
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ALICE DINEEN, Black Panther |
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WILLARD DIXON,Fair Hills 1985 |
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STEVEN DOHANOS The Hardware Store (for SEP November 1951) |
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STEVEN DOHANOS The Lost Shoe 1946 |
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STEVEN DOHANOS Tired Museum Feet 1956 |
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STEVEN DOHANOS Farm House Toys, |
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ARTHUR DOVE Italy Goes to War 1940 |
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ARTHUR DOVE The Critic 1925 |
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ARTHUR DOVE Lattice and awning 1941 |
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ELSIE DRIGGS Pittsburgh 1927 |
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ELSIE DRIGGS Aeroplane 1928 |
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CHARLES DEMUTH, The Striped Blazer |
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MABEL DWIGHT Museum Guard |
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THOMAS EAKINS Salutat 1898 |
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JULIA Eckel Radio Broadcast |
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RICHARD ESTES Place Vendome 1986 |
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RICHARD ESTES Ice Cream 1976 |
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PHILIP EVERGOOD Lily and the Sparrows 1939 |
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REMO FERUGGIO , Street Scene, WPA |
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LYONEL FEININGER , Road of Trees 1915 |
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LOUISE FEITELSON , Genesis 2, 1934 |
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LYONEL FEININGER, Road of Trees 1915. |
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SEYMOUR FOGEL, The Security of the People mural section |
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ARTHUR FROST, The Circus is in Town |
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JARED FRENCH Woman and Boys 1944 |
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JARED FRENCH State Park 1946 |
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ALBERT GALATIN , Room Space |
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WANDA GAG, Whodunit? print |
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JOHN GAST, American progress 1872 |
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WILLIAM GLACKENS, The Green Car 1910 |
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CHARLES GOELLER , Third Avenue |
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GOLDBECK STUDIO , Group photo in the shape of a Heart , Hawaii 1926 - and the plan |
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GOLDBECK STUDIO , Group Photo in letter forms Peacock Military College (PMC) 1921 San Antonio Texas |
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ARSHILE GORKY Newark Airport Mural and reseach images , |
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ADOLPH GOTTLIEB , South Ferry Waiting Room c1929 |
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A.F.GRAVES, Grandma's Doorway c1900 |
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JACK GREITZER, memory (WPA) |
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WILLIAM GROPPER, The Law Makers |
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WILLIAM GROPPER, Tycoon 1954 |
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LOUIS GUGLIELMI, Hague Street (WPA) |
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LOUIS GUGLIELMI, Mental Geography |
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PHILIP GUSTON, Untitled 1969 (artist at easel) |
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PHILIP GUSTON, Untitled 1980 |
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JOHN HABERLE, A Bachelor's Drawer 1890-1894 |
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SAMUEL HALPERT, Downtown 1922 |
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DUANE HANSON, Security Guard |
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HENANIAH HARARI, Carnival 1939 |
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HENANIAH HARARI, City Signs |
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WILLIAM HARNETT Still life with Pipe, Newspaper and Tobacco Pouch 1877 |
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MARSDEN HARTLEY Musical Theme no 1 Bach 1912 |
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CHILDE HASSAM The Mackaye Spectatorium 1893 |
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CHILDE HASSAM The Rose Garden 1888 |
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EDWARD JOHNSON HEADE Salt Marsh, Hay, 1870 |
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EDWARD LAMSON HENRY The Artist's Comments on Women's Hats 1894 4 panels |
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STEFAN HIRSCH Excavation 1926 |
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STEFAN HIRSCH in the public domain |
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CLAUDE RAGUET HIRST Lord Chesterfield's Letters , still life |
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ANTHONY HOLDSWORTH Five O Clock Shadow 1990 |
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WINSLOW HOMER, Girl in a farmyard |
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EDWARD HOPPER Dawn in Pennsylvania 1942 |
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EDWARD HOPPER Night Hawks1942 |
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EDWARD HOPPER Night on the El Train |
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EARL HORTER, Building the Chrysler Building 1931 |
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WILLIAM HORTON La Plage Whitby 1913 |
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GEORGE INNES, Sunset, Golden Glow |
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WILSON IRVINE, The Carousel Brittany c1923 |
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HARRY JACKSON two figures, Dog Soldier, Two Champs |
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HARRY JACKSON two figures, working model for a Monument, Washakie Two Champs |
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YVONNE JACQUETTE Flatiron Intersection 1975 |
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YVONNE JACQUETTE Little River Farm 1979 |
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JOE JONES, American Justice Flatiron Intersection 1975 |
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JOHN KANE, The Monongehela River Valley 1931 |
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OTIS KAYE, What a Hit! still life |
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OTIS KAYE, Specimen Treasury Department 1939 still life |
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OTIS KAYE, Help Stamp Out Poverty still life |
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KEN KEELEY , Bayles Dock 1985 |
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PAUL KELPE, Mechanical Abstraction c1930 |
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PAUL KELPE, Man and Machinery 1934 |
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PAUL KELPE, Machinery (Abstract 2)1934 |
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PAUL KELPE, Man and Machinery 36 1934 |
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ROCKWELL KENT, Garden at Oak Ridge Virginia |
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ED KEINHOLZ, Sollie 17 , 1979-80 |
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ED KEINHOLZ, The Last Buffalo from Worley 1986 |
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WILLEM DE KOONING , design for World Fair Mural, Hall of Pharmacy 1937 |
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LEON KROLL, Bryant Park 1916 |
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WALT KUHN , Girl with Plume 1939 |
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WALT KUHN, Self Portrait as Clown 1932 |
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FITZ HUGH LANE Lumber Schooners at Evening |
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FITZ HUGH LANE Owl's Head, Maine 1862 |
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ARMIN LANDECK Manhattan Nocturne 1938 |
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ELLEN LANYON Elevated Night 1947 |
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JACOB LAWRENCE Ices, 1960 |
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JACOB LAWRENCE Going Home, Masked Ball , both 1946 |
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JOSEPH LEBOIT, Tranquillity 1936 |
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DORIS LEE Helicopter litho 1948 |
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EMIL LEUTZE Washington Crossing the Delaware |
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HAYLEY LEVER Flags, French English Commission |
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DAVID LEVINE Joy Ride 1982 |
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HAYLEY LEVER, Bathing Beach, Gloucester |
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MARTIN LEWIS, Shadow Magic |
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MARTIN LEWIS, Sunbath c1935 |
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MARTIN LEWIS, two prints, Boss of the Block 1928, and Haunted 1932 |
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MARTIN LEWIS, Quarter of Noon, Saturday's Children |
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EDMUND LEWANDOWSKI Lifeboat,1980 - Steel Structures 1982 |
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JOSEPH C LEYENDECKER New Year Baby for Saturday Evening Post 1917 |
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RICHARD LINDNER, The Street 1965 |
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RICHARD LINDNER, Telephone 1966 |
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LOUIS LOZOWICK New York c1923 |
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LOUIS LOZOWICK Still Life with Guitar Number 1 |
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LOUIS LOZOWICK Lynching, litho., 1936 |
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GEORGE LUKS The Bersagliere 1918 |
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HELEN LUNDEBERG , Eyes 1938 |
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BORIS MARGO Homage to Bosch 1935 |
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KYRA MARKHAM, Night Club, litho 1935 |
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KYRA MARKHAM, The Fit Yourself Shop, litho 1935 |
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REGINALD MARSH Grain Elevator 1921 |
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REGINALD MARSH Reading in Times Square 1938 |
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REGINALD MARSH Twenty Four Vignettes 1953 |
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REGINALD MARSH New York Street Scene |
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ALFRED MAURER Abstract Head c1920 |
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ALFRED MAURER Two Blond Heads c1920 |
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JOHN MCLELLAN Entrapped 1936 |
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JOHN MCLELLAN Panic 1937 litho |
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JOHN MCLELLAN Cubism 1958 litho |
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WILLIAM MCCLOSKEY Wrapped oranges, c1890 |
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MARY BLOOD MELLEN Shipwreck on the Beach |
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ALFRED JACOB MILLER, Girl Swinging |
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RICHARD MILLER, L'Heure de l'Aperatif, Cafe de Nuit |
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CLAIRE MAHL MOORE, Factory Industry 1937 |
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ROBERT MOTHERWELL, Knoedler installation, New York 1979 |
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WALTER MURCH Still life with Lemons and Potato |
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WALTER MURCH Door Lock 1963 |
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WALTER MURCH Still Life 1945 |
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GERALD MURPHY , Cocktail 1927 |
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GERALD MURPHY , Razor 1924 |
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GERALD MURPHY ,Public Domain |
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ELIE NADELMAN, Tango c1929 |
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LLOYD R. NEY, History of New London (WPA) |
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DALE NICHOLS, Death in the Wheatfields 1937 |
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GEORGIA O'KEEFE Ranchos Church c 1930 |
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ALFONSO OSSORIO, Birth , wax 1949 |
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MAXFIELD PARRISH Seein' things at night, 1905 |
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MAXFIELD PARRISH Wild Geese 1923 |
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MAXFIELD PARRISH The Philosopher, The Farmer 1909 |
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MAXFIELD PARRISH Study for the Du Pont Mural 1932 |
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MAXFIELD PARRISH Spring 1936 |
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MAXFIELD PARRISH Sun Up 1942 |
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WILLIAM PAXTON The White Verandah 1902 |
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CHARLES WILSON PEALE , Staircase Group 1795 |
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RAPHAELE PEALE , Venus Rising from the Sea 1823 |
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BERNARD PERLIN, Mayor Daley 1968 |
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CARL W PETERS, From a Window , 1925/6 |
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CARL W PETERS, Old Gloucester Canal Wharf |
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JANE PETERSON , Lunar Park c1918 |
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JOHN F PETO, Lincoln and the Star of David Sun Up 1904 |
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JOHN F PETO, Still life with Mug, Pipe and Oyster Crackers c1880-1890 |
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JOHN F PETO, Still life with Mug, Pipe and Oyster Crackers c1880-1890 |
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JOHN F PETO, Old Companions 1904 |
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JOSEPH PENNELL Bringing Home the Heroes after the Zeppelin Explosion |
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MARJORIE PHILLIPS Night Baseball 1951 |
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ALTON PICKENS, The Puppeteers 1954 |
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CHARLES PRENDERGAST , Screen 1937 |
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LEONARD PYTLAK, Up Town, 1935-1940 |
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WALTER QUIRT, Obeisance to Poverty 1936-8 |
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WINOLD REISS, Black Prophet 1925 |
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FREDERICK REMINGTON Evening on a Canadian Lake 1905 |
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WILLIAM RIMMER Flight and Pursuit 1872 |
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LARRY RIVERS, ex cat Marlborough |
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THEODORE ROBINSON Grand Columbian Exposition 1894 |
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HARRY ROSELAND Coney island, Beach Scene |
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HARRY ROSELAND Coney Island Night in Egypt 1932 |
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NORMAN ROCKWELL Young Love Sledding 1949 and From Cradle to Grave 1946 |
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NORMAN ROCKWELL Welder / Shuttlecar 1968 |
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HUGO ROBUS Steam Shovel c 1920 |
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THEODOR ROSZAK Early Leave |
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SANDRA MENDELSOHN RUBIN Grandview and palms 1989 |
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JOHN SALT, Side Street Parking 1982 |
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LUCAS SAMARAS , untitled sculpture (book with inserts) 1962 |
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PAUL SAMPLE, Janitor's Holiday 1936 |
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PAUL SAMPLE, Waiting 1935 |
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PAUL SAMPLE, Beaver Meadow 1939 |
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PAUL SAMPLE, Speech near Brewery 1932 |
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MORTON SCHAMBERG , Composition |
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PAT SCHAVERIEN, The Lobby 1978 |
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JOHN SINGER SARGENT, Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at the Cirque D'Hiver c1879 |
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JOHN SINGER SARGENT, Male Model resting oil study |
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JOHN SINGER SARGENT, study after El Jaleo |
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CHARLES SHEELER, Home Sweet Home 1931 |
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CHARLES SHEELER, San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf 1956 |
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CHARLES SHEELER, The Mill, Andover Mass., 1946 |
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CHARLES SHEELER, Church Street El, 1920 |
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CHARLES SHEELER, City Interior 1936 |
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MILLARD SHEETS , Tenement Flats |
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EVERITT SHINN, The After Dinner Turn 1946 |
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EVERITT SHINN, Ballet Dancer pastel 1929 |
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SIMKA SIMKIVITCH , The Picnic, 1934-5 |
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CLYDE SINGER , Malvern Hardware 1935 |
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CLYDE SINGER , selection of work, Cyde Singer's America |
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CLYDE SINGER , The Mozart (Canton) 1937 |
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CLYDE SINGER , Spring time in the Valley 1936 |
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CLYDE SINGER , The Communist Rally in Cleveland 1931 |
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CLYDE SINGER , Stone's Service Station 1939 |
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ERIC SLOANE , Connestoga Wagon, late 70's / Autumn Mosaic 1979 |
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JOHN SLOAN , Monongahala River Valley 1936 |
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JOHN SLOAN , The City from Greenwich Village 1922 |
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JOHN SLOAN , Bleeker Street |
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MOSES SOYER , Employment Agency 1940 |
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BENTON SPRUANCE , Forward Pass, Football, 1944 |
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BENTON SPRUANCE , The People Work - night, lithograph 1937 |
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JOSEPH STELLA, Machina Naturale no.7 c 1936 (collage) |
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JOSEPH STELLA, Play of Colors c1923 |
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JOSEPH STELLA, The Amazon 1935/6 |
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JOSEPH STELLA, Dog on a Balcony, Paris |
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JOSEPH STELLA, Visual Poetry Drawings |
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GALE STOCKWELL, Parkville Main Street |
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JOHN STORRS, Ceres, chrome and nickel statue 1928 - |
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JOHN STORRS, Sergent de ville,(Gendarme) plaster figure 1920 |
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WALTER STUEMPFIG, Thunderstorm II 1948 |
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WAYNE THIEBAUD, Corner Apartment 1979 |
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EDGAR TOLSON, Temptation in the Garden of Eden, wooden figures c1968 |
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GEORGE TOOKER, Supermarket 1973 |
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GEORGE TOOKER, Highway 1953 |
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STUYVESCENT VAN VEEN, Peace Conference, ink on paper 1932 |
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ELIHU VEDDER, Fortuna, allegorical figure ?1881 |
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ANTHONY VELONIS, 6.30 am 1938 |
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MARTHA WALTER, The Promentary , |
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MARTHA WALTER, The Bathers , |
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LYND WARD , Company Town wood eng c1930 |
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HARRY WATROUS, The Dregs , 1914 |
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MAX WEBER , Chinese Restaurant 1915 |
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MAX WEBER , New York, The Big Store 1925 |
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MAX WEBER , Rush Hour, New York 1915 |
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EDWIN LORD WEEKS, Palace and Lake, Sarkeh-Ahmedabad |
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CHARMION VON WIEGAND, Basel Catal. |
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PAUL WELLER, Sleeper, litho date unknown |
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H.C.WESTERMANN, illustrated letters |
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JOHN WHORF,Brooklyn Bridge |
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GRANT WOOD, Night Scene, National Oats, c1928 |
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GRANT WOOD, Return from Bohemia 1935 |
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GRANT WOOD, Seedtime and Harvest 1937 |
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GRANT WOOD, IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN |
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GRANT WOOD, Shrine Quartet 1939 |
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GRANT WOOD, Woman with Plant, Mother in Law's Tongue 1929 |
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GRANT WOOD, two prints, In the Spring and Approaching Storm 1939 and 1941 |
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N.C.WYETH A Garden Meeting 1927 for Ladies Home Journal |
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N.C.WYETH The Magic Fire Spell c 1921 |
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N.C.WYETH Island Funeral, 1939 |
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ANDREW.WYETH Gunport 1981 |
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WILLIAM ZORACH, Yosemite Falls, 1920 |
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