Culture and Consumerism: Images of America 1800-1870
Tuesday January 16, 1996 - Friday March 8, 1996
Samuel Hollyer and John Rogers, The Pic Nic or the Fourth of July, ca. 1860, after Lilly Martin Spencer, etching and engraving (photo: Phil)
The exhibition displayed recent purchases of American prints and photographs representing the range of 19th-century U.S. graphic arts. Included were works published by Currier & Ives, and reproductive prints after such artists as Thomas Cole, Lilly Martin Spencer, and George Caleb Bingham.