When Daniel Wadsworth founded his eponymous museum in his home city of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1842, the collection comprised 79 paintings and a handful of sculptures ...

Can art be biased? Explain. Play the following introductory video clip of author Richard Brookhiser talking about the childhood of Revolutionary War era painter John Trumbull. Direct your students ...

click image for close-up John Trumbull's life-size painting of the First Continental Congress, assembled to sign the Declaration of Independence, was copied from a miniature (21.2 x 31.2 inches ...