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The Drawing That Once Hung in Thomas Jefferson’s Parlor
An American has slipped his way into exclusive British company—the exhibition Luminous Paper: British Watercolors and Drawings, opening July 19. Owned for years by Thomas Jefferson, admirer of all...
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I never expected to witness an evening combining British artists Aubrey Beardsley and Thomas Girtin, goth-rocker Marilyn Manson, Ugly Betty, six contemporary American poets, Stonehenge, improvisational...
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Anatomy of a Horse Painting
Brood Mares and Foals, George Stubbs, 1767. Oil on canvas, 39 1/4 x 74 1/4 in. Anonymous loan In George Stubbs’s Brood Mares and Foals, which arrived at the Museum in October as a temporary anonymous...
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Life Before eBay: British Art Auctions at the End of the 18th Century
A giant of the British art market: Portrait of James Christie, 1778, Thomas Gainsborough. Oil on canvas, 49 5/8 x 40 1/8 in. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 70.PA.16. Gift of J. Paul Getty The Getty...
View ArticleHanging Pictures in the Land of Giants
For the last six months I’ve been living in a doll’s house. Not literally of course, but it certainly has sometimes felt like it. As we’ve been planning the exhibition “London Calling,” we’ve been...
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