Posts tagged with “Charles Willson Peale”

Let’s call it The Book of Masters

20 February 2012

The book is about painters, none of whom are really masters (though some, like Rembrandt and Raphaelle Peale, were named for masters), and all of whom are trying desperately to master the art of life. Poor things.

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Window on a Lost But Radiant Time

6 February 2012

The year 1818, economy crashing, American art up for grabs…Peale’s museum is failing…to make up for the lost income he attempts to turn his farm Belfield into a cotton mill…an act with tragic consequences…

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