Naumkeag, part 2
Naumkeag's gardens. Photo copyright © 2020 Dianne L. Durante

Naumkeag, part 2

For more on Naumkeag, see the first post in this series. This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/npmDQpdImZY. This week: more of Naumkeag's spectacular gardens. Naumkeag's gardens, continued…

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Naumkeag, part 1
Naumkeag's gardens. Photo copyright © 2020 Dianne L. Durante

Naumkeag, part 1

This post is available as a video at https://youtu.be/L4Gxc_QQWb0. Naumkeag (website here) is a 44-room “Berkshire cottage” in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The Gilded Age mansion boasts fantastic gardens, spectacular views, and…

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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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Worcester Art Museum: European Portraits, part 1
Follower of Agnolo Bronzino, Portrait of Giovanna Chevara and her son Giovanni Montalvo, early 1560s. Bronzino, Eleonora of Toledo & Her Son, ca. 1545 (Uffizi Gallery; photo from Wikipedia).

Worcester Art Museum: European Portraits, part 1

In June 2023 I visited the Worcester Art Museum to see an exhibition of Impressionist art just before it closed. I didn't expect to find much beyond that: Worcester, Massachusetts…

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