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Painted Paper

Works by Judith Sugarman; Records of Passage: New England Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fraktur Tradition
November 5 - December 27, 1981
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Robert Mapplethorpe's Objectification of the Black Male Body

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Under the Big Top

John Steuart Curry’s Vision of the Circus
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Typographic Tightrope

Designing Circus
Colored pencil drawing of a white middled aged woman in a bright blue dress and sunglasses. Sh is seated on a red chair and holds a colorfully embroidered purse in her right hand.

Portrait of an Embroidered Purse

A Conversation with Christina Bevilacqua
Student Voices Artist

The handmade object has a tendency to prompt memories from the craftsperson who made it. In this reflection on an embroidered purse from the 1970s, Ariel Wills and Kate Irvin are joined by maker Christina Bevilacqua for a dynamic conversation that demonstrates the narrative qualities embodied in material culture.

Drawing of a yard of a cooperage on the banks of the Rhine. a landscape depicted of tan tone of a smooth-surfaced paper.

American Drawings and Watercolors

Albert Bierstadt's Landscape on the Rhine
Curator Drawing

Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, but came to the United States with his family in 1832 and settled with them in New Bedford, Massachusetts.