Art History1848-1907 in Europe and the United States

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,...