BACK ISSUES – 2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005
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2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005
VOLUME 3 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE:
ART HISTORY 101
 Wadsworth Celebrates the American Landscape
Dotha’s Tribute Turns 75
In Step with Wallace Stevens
A Letter from Monet’s Garden
On the cover:
Thomas Cole, View of Monte Video, the seat of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq., 1828
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
| Contents |
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From the Publisher: |
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Letters, etc. |
| pg 12 |
When Artists Owned Hartford’s Streets. By Bob Gregson |
| pg 18 |
Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School.
By Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser |
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The Enigma of Wallace Stevens. By Christine Palm |
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Dotha’s Crowning Gift to Hartford. By Diana Ross McCain |
| pg 36 |
re: CollectionsPortrait of a Young Man. By Nancy Finlay |
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Shoebox ArchivesAlfred Pope of Hill-Stead has lunch with Claude Monet.
By Polly Pasternak Huntington |
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Destination
Visit the nation’s first museum devoted to collecting American art, and one of the top university print collections in the United States.
New Britian Museum of American Art. By Elizabeth J. Normen
Davison Art Center. By Elizabeth J. Normen |
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Afterword
Expansion at two area museums, and more… |
| pg 44 |
Soapbox
Why public art is good for Hartford. By Ken Kahn |
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2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005
• Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School
• The Enigma of Wallace Stevens
• Lunch with Monet
AUG/SEP/OCT 2004
• The Education of Ella Grasso
• Ancient Burying Ground
• Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager
MAY/JUN/JUL 2004
• Miracle on Capital Avenue
• Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War
• A Piece of Silk Tells of the Richly Textured Fabric of Mill Town Life
FEB/MAR/APR 2004
• Hospital Rock
• A Well-stocked Saddlebag for the Doctor on Horseback
2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004
• A War Contested
• “If You Don’t Need It, DON’T BUY IT”
• Manufacturing for the War Effort
• Fighting for Freedom
SUMMER 2003
• An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age
• Audacious Alliances
• Sophia Woodhouse’s Grass Bonnets
SPRING 2003
• Hartford’s Motion Picture Palaces
• A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy
• The Hartford Dark Blues
WINTER 2003
• A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing
• The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street
• Francis Goodwin II’s reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge
FALL 2002
• A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History
• Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut
• A “Tomitude”
