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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrlFUhdrmYk by Smithsonian American Art Museum 10years ago YouTube] | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrlFUhdrmYk by Smithsonian American Art Museum 10years ago YouTube] | ||
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America were a “coming-of-age” period in American art. Art historian William Kloss explores this special installation of masterworks by Gilded Age, impressionist, and Ashcan school painters. | The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America were a “coming-of-age” period in American art. Art historian William Kloss explores this special installation of masterworks by Gilded Age, impressionist, and Ashcan school painters. | ||
=====Highlights from the Fielding Collection of Early American Art: Sheldon Peck Portrait===== | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMzwOjMntY by The Huntington YouTube] | |||
Jonathan Fielding talks about an untitled portrait painted in the 1820s by Sheldon Peck. The painting was uncovered in 1997 by the popular Antiques Roadshow television series. Peck, an itinerant artist and one of the best-known painters of the time, was an abolitionist, an activist in the temperance movement, and a proponent of universal education. | |||
