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Four women in flowing white dresses relaxing on a sunlight grassy slope, enjoying the breeze and bright blue sky.

An American Idyll

19th-Century Paintings and Decorative Arts
April 6, 2007 - January 6, 2008

Romanticism and Revival

Nineteenth-Century American Art from the Permanent Collection
December 4, 1992 - June 26, 1993

Selection VII

American Paintings from the Museum's Collection, ca. 1800-1930
March 31 - May 8, 1977
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.
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Inuit Printmaking and the Concept of Purity

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Selection VII

American Painting from the Museum's Collection, c.1800-1930

Confronting Ourselves Together

All-Staff Dialogues at the RISD Museum
Educators

Many museums today struggle with confronting their problematic legacies and transforming their current practices to become the diverse, inclusive institutions they aspire to be.