If the gardens and mansion at Alfred I. du Pont’s Delaware estate, Nemours, were built to impress, they were also … More
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Gift to the City of Boston
Wandering through her neo-renaissance Florentine palazzo, now the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, you can’t help wishing you’d been invited to … More
Glass Flowers and Ethnic Art at Harvard
Harvard University is known for the superb collections in the Harvard Art Museums, a combination of three former museums, where … More
Delaware Art Museum – Giving Illustrators their Due
In the hierarchy of artists, illustrators have been never been accorded the standing of the so-called fine arts. And yet … More
Norman Rockwell Museum: Chronicling American Life
One of America’s most widely recognized artists even nearly a half-century after his death, Norman Rockwell lived and worked in … More
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
More than a nostalgic step back to childhood favorites, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, on the campus … More
Christmas at Nemours Estate
Built by Alfred I. duPont as a gift to his second wife, Alicia, Nemours is a Gilded Age confection glittering … More
Robert Frost’s New Hampshire Homes
Robert Frost is considered the quintessential New England poet, and although his images may be rooted in its land and … More
The Farnsworth Museum: Celebrating Maine’s Role in American Art
The Maine coast has inspired generations of artists and the Farnsworth Museum, on Main St in Rockland, is dedicated to … More
Fruitlands: From Transcendentalist Farm to Cultural Center in Massachusetts
Fruitlands, in Harvard, Massachusetts, was the site of an early farming commune of Transcendentalists founded by Bronson Alcott, father of … More
