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title
The Northeaster
creator
Winslow Homer
Description
Reduced to economical yet expressive elements, this composition reveals Winslow Homer’s strong sense of design, honed during his early career in illustration. (He quit magazine work in 1875, in part because of the income generated by watercolor sales.) After settling in 1883 in Prout’s Neck, a rocky peninsula off the coast of Maine, he became increasingly preoccupied with the dynamic interactions of sea, sky, and extremes of weather along the water’s edge.<br /><p>Object metadata can change over time, please check the Brooklyn Museum <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2824/The_Northeaster" rel="nofollow">object record</a> for the latest information.</p>
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art. American Art
title
Sunday Morning, Appledore
creator
Frederick Childe Hassam
Description
<p>Object metadata can change over time, please check the Brooklyn Museum <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2776/Sunday_Morning_Appledore" rel="nofollow">object record</a> for the latest information.</p>
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art. American Art
title
Under the Falls, the Grand Discharge
creator
Winslow Homer
Description
<p>Object metadata can change over time, please check the Brooklyn Museum <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2847/Under_the_Falls_the_Grand_Discharge" rel="nofollow">object record</a> for the latest information.</p>
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art. American Art
title
Self Portrait
creator
Eastman Johnson
Description
<p>Object metadata can change over time, please check the Brooklyn Museum <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/429/Self_Portrait" rel="nofollow">object record</a> for the latest information.</p>
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art. American Art
title
Illustration for "George Washington Jones: A Christmas Gift That Went A-Begging"
creator
Edward Henry Potthast
Description
Demeaning racial stereotyping persisted in American culture long after the Emancipation Proclamation, as evidenced by Ruth McEnery Stuart’s <i>George Washington Jones</i>. In this sentimental novel, a young African American orphan finds his way in Reconstruction-era New Orleans by emulating his late, enslaved grandfather, who had been given as a Christmas present to be the personal servant of the master’s daughter. In Edward Henry Potthast’s illustration, the protagonist checks his bedraggled appearance before calling on potential employers and laments, “Wush’t I was a little purtier.” In what is presented as a happy twist of fate, George gets hired by the same family his grandfather served. Stuart’s stories gained widespread popularity in her day for their vivid portrayals of southern characters and dialects. A tale such as <i>George Washington Jones</i> also functioned to assuage white audiences’ anxieties about postwar racial tensions by suggesting that blacks were content to reproduce old social hierarchies and patterns of faithful servitude under slavery.<br /><p>Object metadata can change over time, please check the Brooklyn Museum <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/439/Illustration_for_George_Washington_Jones%3A_A_Christmas_Gift_That_Went_A-Begging" rel="nofollow">object record</a> for the latest information.</p>
subject
art. American Art
title
Bound Book of Sketches
creator
George Henry Hall
Description
Like most American artists of his day, Hall went to Europe to complete his professional training. After studying in Germany at the Düsseldorf Academy, noted for its emphasis on careful draftsmanship and exacting finish, he traveled to Italy, where he recorded his impressions of the landscape in this large sketchbook. On the page displayed here, Hall created a picturesque composition in which a tree on the foreground bank of Lake Nemi frames a distant view of the village on the opposite shore.<br /><p>Object metadata can change over time, please check the Brooklyn Museum <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2736/Bound_Book_of_Sketches" rel="nofollow">object record</a> for the latest information.</p>
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