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Archive: June 2014 (4 Posts)

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Feast Your Eyes: Fruit Forever Fresh in Still Life

Posted by: Kristi Finefield

The following is a guest post by Martha H. Kennedy, Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Arts, Prints and Photographs Division. The vibrant colors and massive watermelon in this hand-colored lithograph first caught my eye. Tucked around, beside, and below the melon are rosy apples, golden pears, peaches, plums, blackberries, a cantaloupe, and dark and …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Richard Morris Hunt: Exploring the Man and the Legacy

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

While reading Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City about events in 1890s Chicago during the World’s Columbian Exposition, I became intrigued by the glimpses Larson provided of architect Richard Morris Hunt, one of the contributors to the exposition’s monumental design. Richard Morris Hunt has become something of a household name around the Prints …