NP Early American Paintings, & etc.

[Doug Millison]

--from Yahoo! Picks of the Week

Early American Paintings

	http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/

The Worcester Museum of Art in Massachusetts presents this sleek
collection of landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. The paintings
date from the late 17th century until around 1830 (when the U.S.
population was 12.9 million), and the interface is as engaging as
the art -- scroll horizontally through the timeline for historical
context, or click on a painting to view a close-up, artist biography,
and related works. And for some good clean fun, check out the names
of the rich, pasty portrait subjects: Cornelius Waldo, Major General
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Sarah Savage, and John Freake.

....and maybe even the Keith can find something to like in this one:

William Gedney Photographs and Writings

	http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/

The special collections library at Duke University presents this
stark exhibit of black-and-white photographs from William Gedney.
"These photographs -- taken primarily in New York, San Francisco,
Kentucky, and India -- are remarkable in their sympathetic and
quietly sensual view of the world. They illuminate the rare, lyrical
vision of a photographer who, while living a highly reclusive
personal life, was able to record the lives of others with remarkable
sensitivity and poignancy." Browse over 4,000 photographs, including
a prone hippie playing a wood flute, John Cage looking pensive, a
dirt-covered Kentucky five-year-old having a quiet smoke, and
cavorting Indian street kids.



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