The Reading Public Museum has announced the acquisition of a rare and important plasterwork frame to house its portrait of George Washington by painter Gilbert Stuart. The painting and its new ...

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Collection of the Whitney Museum of Art ‘Is he easy to work ... extended periods of posing. Gilbert Stuart, renowned for his portraits of George Washington, wrote that “a vacuity spread ...

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We are in Whitechapel, east London, and the artist, Nelly, is hard at work, painting the names of the 2025 Lions squad on the ...

It was a sentiment George Washington ... After the original by Gilbert Stuart, Asher Brown Durand / Collection of the New York Historical Society / Bridgeman Art Library International In 1844 ...

In the late ’50s, “Don Owens’s TV Jamboree” was a must-see every Saturday for country music fans across the Washington ... great Marty Stuart, Cline discographer George Hewitt and composer ...

This year marks the last Preakness Stakes at northwest Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course as it currently stands. Here's your ...

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution George Zoretich ... an artist who lived in Washington, D.C., sent this screen-printed image of the C&O Canal in Washington’s Georgetown ...

Throat lacerations, perforated organs, and pierced hearts are just some of the complications that performers can suffer when swallowing swords, but despite these dangers, only 29 deaths from this ...

This tune has been covered by plenty of jazz luminaries, Art Tatum, Bud Powell ... Blind from birth, London-born pianist George Shearing reaped acclaim in America in the late 1940s and early ...