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From Vanderbilt Estate Signed Miller on verso Gouache on board 40 x 30 in. This is a portrait of the artist’s mother, Barbara Whitney Headley. Painted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s granddaughter: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Conner b. 1925 - d. 2009....
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Eugene Alexis Girardet (French, 1853-1907) Eugene Alexis Girardet hailed from a Swiss Huguenot family, with an artist father, Paul Girardet, and artistic siblings. After learning engraving from his father, he studied at École des Beaux-arts and under Jean-Léon Gérôme, who...
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This work was painted at the height of Mahonri’s career, at time when he had become world famous for his passionate and realistic depictions of boxers — works that were collected by Cole Porter, Joseph Pulitzer, and JD Rockfeller,...
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Teichert's mother and sisters encouraged and supported her throughout her time at the Art Students League in New York City. They would send letters of encouragement and praise for her art, as well as, monetary help for her tuition....
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Albert Einstein, in Discussion with Robert Oppenheimer in Office Institute for Advanced Study (1946)by Alfred EisenstaedtLess than a year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, NBC collaborated with Albert Einstein to explain to the American public the science behind...
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