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1817 - 1893. Known for: Portrait and figure painting, teaching.
The following was published in The New York Times, February 26, 2013. Offending Mural Is Uncovered, for Brief Peeks. By JESSE McKINLEY. ALBANY — For the last decade or so, one of New York's most... Read full biography
The following was published in The New York Times, February 26, 2013. Offending Mural Is Uncovered, for Brief Peeks. By JESSE McKINLEY. ALBANY — For the last decade or so, one of New York's most curious and controversial pieces of public art has been hiding, Oz-like, behind a big green curtain. The... Read full biography
The following was published in The New York Times, February 26, 2013. Offending Mural Is Uncovered, for Brief Peeks. By JESSE McKINLEY. ALBANY — For the last decade or so, one of New York's most curious and controversial pieces of public art has been hiding, Oz-like, behind a big green curtain. The work in question is a 19th-century mural titled The Genius of America, a sprawling 30-foot-long fantasy at the State Education Building whose depictions include angels, babies and women in togas;... Read full biography
The following was published in The New York Times, February 26, 2013. Offending Mural Is Uncovered, for Brief Peeks. By JESSE McKINLEY. ALBANY — For the last decade or so, one of New York's most curious and controversial pieces of public art has been hiding, Oz-like, behind a big green curtain. The work in question is a 19th-century mural titled The Genius of America, a sprawling 30-foot-long fantasy at the State Education Building whose depictions include angels, babies and women in togas; Gen. George Washington and a god of war; and what seems to be a group of colonial zombies rising from the grave. Amid that symbolic swirl, in the lower right corner, is a striking and some say unsettling image: a slave in loincloth being held under the... Read full biography
The following was published in The New York Times, February 26, 2013. Offending Mural Is Uncovered, for Brief Peeks. By JESSE McKINLEY. ALBANY — For the last decade or so, one of New York's most curious and controversial pieces of public art has been hiding, Oz-like, behind a big green curtain. The work in question is a 19th-century mural titled The Genius of America, a sprawling 30-foot-long fantasy at the State Education Building whose depictions include angels, babies and women in togas; Gen. George Washington and a god of war; and what seems to be a group of colonial zombies rising from the grave. Amid that symbolic swirl, in the lower right corner, is a striking and some say unsettling image: a slave in loincloth being held under the arms by a well-dressed white man. It was that image and its potential symbolism — was the slave being lift... Read full biography
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The following was published in The New York Times, February 26, 2013
Offending Mural Is Uncovered, for Brief Peeks
By JESSE McKINLEY
ALBANY — For the last decade or so, one of New York's most curious and controversial pieces of public art has been hiding, Oz-like, behind a big green curtain.
The work in question is a 19th-century mural titled The Genius of America, a sprawling 30-foot-long fantasy at the State Education Building whose depictions include angels, babies and women in togas; Gen. George Washington and a god of war; and what seems to be a group of colonial zombies rising from the grave.
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