Tag: American art
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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin
Link: Troubling Habits of Unhappy People
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ART: In the Mood for Eakins
The thing I love about Thomas Eakins as an artist is the way he captures the depth of a person. FOR MORE: HERE
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Manhood: He Did Not Need to Advertise It
Sam Evans was that sort of great man noticed in his small circles and forgotten by history. While others in his regiment fell out with sore feet and heads Sam marched on. His peers knew him as the man who took new recruits under his wing. Sam spent his spare time putting his blacksmith skills…
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
Even as college students and dirty, rotten stay-outs, we poked fun at every artsy person’s need for the right hip place to be on the weekend (or any other night). We drove my father’s two-toned Oldsmobile ironically and on five dollars worth of mostly gas fumes to Hoboken. For a brief, sparkling time we were…
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“Look around you and paint what you see. Forget the Beaux-Arts and the models and render the intense life which surrounds you and be assured that the Brooklyn Bridge is worth the Colosseum of Rome and that modern America is as fine as the bric-a-brac of antiquity.”
FREDERICK CHILDE HASSAM American Painter http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hass/hd_hass.htm http://www.frederickhassam.org/biography.html
Author Adrienne Morris 