Clark Art Institute, part 3
Thomas Gainsborough, Elizabeth and Thomas Linley, ca. 1768. Clark Art Institute.

Clark Art Institute, part 3

On the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, MA, see the first post in this series. This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/C-B0LQWFwOg . This week: paintings of the…

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Clark Art Institute, part 2
Detail of Antoine Coypel, Allegory of Music, 1681-1684. Clark Art Institute.

Clark Art Institute, part 2

On the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, MA, see the first post in this series. This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/1_ZlsI0jOOY . This week: paintings of the…

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Clark Art  Institute, part 1
Hands from Gossaert portraits of the 1520s.

Clark Art Institute, part 1

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, in northwestern Massachusetts, has been open to the public since 1955. I'd heard people raving about the Clark for years. This summer, I…

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Worcester Art Museum, American Portraits, part 3
John Singer Sargent, Lizzie B. Dewey (Mrs. Francis Henshaw Dewey II), 1890. Worcester Art Museum.

Worcester Art Museum, American Portraits, part 3

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see the first post in this series. In this post (the final in the series) we look American paintings of the late19th and early…

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Worcester Art Museum, American Portraits, part 2
Gilbert Stuart, Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury, 1810-1811, and Russell Sturgis, 1822. Worcester Art Museum.

Worcester Art Museum, American Portraits, part 2

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see the first post in this series. In this post we look American paintings of the early 19th century at the WAM, and see…

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Worcester Art Museum, American Portraits, part 1
Freake-Gibbs Painter, John, Elizabeth & Mary Freake, ca. 1670. Worcester Art Museum.

Worcester Art Museum, American Portraits, part 1

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see the first post in this series. In this post we look at the earliest American paintings at the WAM, and see how they…

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Worcester Art Museum, European Portraits, part 4
Thomas Lawrence, Mr. & Mrs. James Dunlop, ca. 1825. Worcester Art Museum.

Worcester Art Museum, European Portraits, part 4

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see the first post in this series. In this post we look at four French, Spanish, and English portraits of the 19th century –…

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Worcester Art Museum: European Portraits, part 3
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Isabella Carr, later Countess Erroll, 1761. Worcester Art Museum.

Worcester Art Museum: European Portraits, part 3

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see last week’s post. This post looks at six French and English portraits of the 18th century - not room by room, but in…

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Worcester Art Museum: European Portraits, part 2
Frans van Mieris, Soldier Smoking a Pipe (Self-Portrait), 1662. Photo: Worcester Art Museum.

Worcester Art Museum: European Portraits, part 2

For more on the Worcester Art Museum, see last week's post. This series of posts looks at some of the WAM's portraits from Europe, then portraits from the United States…

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