Departure of the First Ohio Zouave Regiment from Cincinnati for Western VirginiaSketch by Henry Mosler (1841-1920)from Harper's Weekly, October 5, 1861, p. 631 Henry Mosler was born in Troplowitz, Silesia, more »
Author: Doug Litts
Doug Litts is the head of the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library.
Jackson, Carlos Francisco. Chicana and Chicano Art: ProtestArte. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, 2009. 225 p. N6538.M4 J25 2009 First used as a derogatory word for the Mexican American community, more »
recto: Rembrandt Peale (born Bucks County, PA, 1778; died Philadelphia, PA,1860) verso: Carte-de-visite photographer: H. G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA Rembrandt Peale was born into a family of artists during the more »
recto: Chauncey B. Ives (born Hamden, CT, 1810; died Rome, Italy,1894) verso: Carte-de-visite photography studio: Ferrando Photographic Studio, Rome, Italy Chauncey Ives was one of the most popular American sculptors more »
Moran, Michael F. Striking Change: The Great Artistic Collaboration of Theodore Roosevelt and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Atlanta: Whitman, 2008. 432 p. N40.1.S13 M67 2008 Instrumental in creation of the Smithsonian American more »
recto: Samuel F.B. Morse (born Charlestown, MA, 1781; died New York, NY,1872) rear: Carte-de-visite photographer: Mathew Brady Studios, New York, NY & Washington, DC Samuel Morse is most known for more »
recto: Thomas Sully(born Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, 1783; died Philadelphia, PA,1872) rear: Carte-de-visite photographer: H.G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA During his lifetime, Thomas Sully was one of the most prominent portrait painters more »