Past Exhibitions
Thomas Cole’s Refrain: The Paintings of Catskill Creek
Sight and Site Lines: American Works on Paper 1790-1890
Articles
Why These Pretty Pictures of Twigs and Boulders Were Once Considered so Radical
The Washington Post May 01, 2019It isn’t immediately obvious, to contemporary eyes, what made the art of the American Pre-Raphaelites seem so ugly and so radical to 19th-century critics.