Envisioning Manifest Destiny, Leutze’s Westward the Course of Empire
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (mural study for the United States Capitol building), 1861, oil on canvas, 84.5...
Carleton Watkins and the business of seeing the American west
Carleton E. Watkins, Eagle Creek, Columbia River, 1867, albumen silver print, 40.01 × 52.39 cm (LACMA)
A conversation with Elizabeth Gerber and Beth Harris.
A Seeing...
Sleeping Beauty — but without the Kiss: Burne-Jones and the Briar Rose series
Edward Burne Jones, The Briar Rose (The Briar Rose, The Council Chamber, The Garden Court, and The Rose Bower), c. 1890, oil on canvas...
Blythe, Justice
David Gilmour Blythe, Justice, c. 1860, oil on canvas, 51.1 x 61.3 cm (Fine Art Museums of San Francisco), a Seeing America video
Speakers: Emily...
A show-stopping cut-glass punch bowl
Libbey Glass Company, Punch Bowl and stand with 23 cups, 1904, thick colorless glass, 54.6 x 60.6 x 60.6 cm, 134 pounds (Toledo Museum...
Abandoned St. Paul’s School- Garden City
Drone footage of St.Paul's abandoned school. Shot with a DJI Phantom 3 4K. Such a beautiful building, a shame it is just rotting...
Martyr or murderer? Thomas Hovenden’s The Last Moments of John Brown
Thomas Hovenden, The Last Moments of John Brown, c. 1884, oil on canvas, 117.2 x 96.8 cm (de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of...
Heroes of modern surgery: Eakins’ Dr. Gross and Dr. Agnew
Thomas Eakins, Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875, oil on canvas, 243.8 x 198.1 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art)...
Inventing America, Colt’s Experimental Pocket Pistol
Elisha King Root for Samuel Colt, Experimental Pocket Pistol, Serial number 5, caliber .265 inches, barrel length 3 inches, overall length 7 inches, brass,...