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Understanding Art Through Thumbnail Sketching

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Teaching Notes/ Imagining the Americas

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Private Investigation, Art-History Style

Handwritten tribute from Richard Merkin to musician Bobby Short inside the catalog for Merkin's first New York gallery show, "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of." The catalog accompanied a 1967 letter (on vintage letterhead) from Richard Merkin to musician Bobby Short, expressing Merkin's esteem for Short and his music, and inviting him to come see the exhibition. Courtesy of the RISD Archives
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Remembering Richard Merkin

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Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection
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Ritual and Invention in American Fashion 1920 - 1980
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A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Printed Walls

A RISD course in conjunction with "The Art of French Wallpaper Design"
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RISD students in a Printmaking course are creating their own wallpaper designs in a collaborative course.

Wood in the Middle Ages

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During the Fall of 2015, Sheila Bonde’s graduate students in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University undertook an investigation of the wood sculptures in the RISD Museum collections. This multi-author paper includes some of their findings.

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The Origin of the Blues

An Interview with Artist Ariel Jackson
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Nancy Prophet fellow Amber Lopez interviews artist Ariel Jackson her video *The Origin of the Blues*

An intricately painted ceramic bowl with a bustling city scene, featuring colorful buildings, trees and figures, and including a gold rim.

On the Other Side

College Student Voices

A glimpse into the lives of international merchants in Canton, China.

Spatial Memory

The Hidden Corners
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A summer intern peeks into the Museum’s hidden corners and examines its architectural quirks.

Work in Process / Machine Knitting

College How To Studio Notes Artist

Artist Peyton North (RISD BFA 2015, Textiles) shows us how to create stripes on a knitting machine.

Two demonic figures climbing on a a tent. Shapes shown in black ink on cream paper as silhouettes. In lower left are 10 lines of small handwritten letters in Inuktitut writing. Writing translates to English: The Torngat that come knocking in the night. This story was terrifying when my father and grandmother told it. I mean, it was very scary. Long ago, in a tent, when they still used sealskin tents, as darkness fell, these creatures would scratch at the tent. The people were so scared that they couldn’t speak a word. They must’ve been the devils children, his daughters or his sons. No one dared to leave during this time. They circled the tent all night long, scratching at it. It would eventually stop in the dead of night.

Inuit Printmaking and the Concept of Purity

College Student Voices

This article explores the concept of purity in criticisms of Inuit prints by briefly introducing the history of printmaking in Cape Dorset and looking at 1970s Western art historians' expectations of Inuit art.

A gilded face with blue-outlined eyes on a coffin lid, framed by a blue black headdress with golden details and a red, green, and blue painted collar.

Serpentipity

Ancient Egyptian Funeral Planning Today
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How do you lay an Egyptian mummy to rest in a museum? Our curator considered a number of factors in orienting Nesmin, RISD's Egyptian mummy, in his new case in the freshly renovated gallery, but found a strange coincidence in her final decision.

Lobsters and Snowshoes

The Hayes Presidential Service
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A chance meeting between the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes and Theodore Davis, an illustrator and journalist for "Harper's Weekly", in the White House conservatory produced one of the most extraordinary dinner services.

Fashionable dress women walks her dog in Boston Public Garden

American Drawings and Watercolors

Childe Hassam's Woman and Mastiff in the Boston Public Garden and Diamond Cove, Appledore
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Childe Hassam, a successful young book and magazine illustrator, made his first trip abroad in 1883, disembarking in Great Britain then making a wide sweep through France, Holland, Switzerlan

Teaching a Stone to Talk

Studio Notes Artist

Anya Ventura visits the studio of Rhode Island stone carver Tracy Mahaffey.

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