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1944: World’s Most Beautiful Leg
Nazi Propaganda Poster (1944)
1936: Coal Tipple
Louise Pershing: Bituminous Coal Tipple (1936)
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1628: Still Life with Books and a Violin
Jan Davidszoon de Heem: Still Life with Books and a Violin (1628)
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1994: Selected Works
cho Kcho: Obras Escogidas (Selected Works) (1994) (source)
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1857: Niagara
Frederic Edwin Church: Niagara (1857)
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1938: Youth of Today
John Vachon: Picket line at King Farm, Morrisville PA, August 1938
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1941: Degenerate Art
Emil Nolde: Meer bei Abenddämmerung [Sea at Dusk] An anti-Semite who believed in the cultural superiority of “Germanic” art and supported the Nazi Party beginning in the 1920’s, Emil Nolde was surprised when his own paintings were targeted in the … Continue reading
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1937: Forest
Emily Carr: Forest Interior in Shafts of Light (c. 1935-1937)
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670 BC: Rebuilding Babylon
Black basalt monument narrating King Esarhaddon’s restoration of Babylon following the defeat of his brothers in a civil war in 681 BC. After he was declared king, he set about rebuilding temples, holy sites, and the statues of Babylonian gods … Continue reading
1706: The Pretty Dragoon
The Story of Christiana Davis, “The British Amazon” In 1739 Christiana Davis, an outpensioner of Chelsea College, died, and was interred with military honours in the pensioners’ burying-ground. She was the daughter of a soldier in the Inniskilling Regiment, now … Continue reading
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