All posts tagged "paintings"
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1.8KMassachusettsAdam Worth, the Napoleon of Crime, Robs the Robber Barons
In 1876, Junius Morgan, a wealthy Hartford banker living in London, had started at age 63 to collect European paintings. He had...
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4.1KMaineSix Famous Artists Houses (Where You Can Stay, Too)
Artists gravitate toward places that inspire them creatively, so you can often find artists houses among splendid scenery or in rural isolation....
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5.1K2Arts and LeisureSix Iconic Paintings From the New England States
Iconic paintings capture the essence of a place or a person. American Gothic, for example, reveals the stoic plainness of the rural...
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4.2K1New HampshireThe Willey Family Tragedy and a Painting Create White Mountain Tourism
When the Samuel Willey family moved to Crawford Notch in 1825, they unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that turned...
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2.3K1ConnecticutHow Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground Was Saved by the Gold Street Lady
The Ancient Burying Ground, the oldest historic site in Hartford, contains the remains of 6,000 early men, women and children who settled...
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2.2K5ConnecticutRiver Gods of the Connecticut River Valley Create A World of Their Own
During the 150 years before the American Revolution, a series of aristocrats known as the River Gods ruled the Connecticut River Valley....
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4.7K2MaineJohn Greenleaf Whittier and the Real Maud Muller
New England's Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the sentimental and melancholy story of Maud Muller in 1854. The poem, one of...
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2.4K2MaineHow John Marin, America’s Greatest Artist, Vanished from Sight
John Marin, voted America’s greatest artist in 1948, looked like an aging Beatle. An admirer described him as having bangs that reached...
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1.9K4Today's History Highlights ArchiveSix Autumn Paintings of New England (And How They Look Today)
New England’s fall foliage inspires so much imagery we were pretty sure we could find six autumn paintings of New England. Then...
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1.9K3Today's History Highlights ArchiveThe Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Six Historic Opera Houses
Opera houses didn’t become a feature of American cities and towns until after the Civil War, though they existed before the American...