Daily Archives: October 29, 2024

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Impact FAM loan: Gathering Berries

Winslow Homer (US American, 1836 – 1910)Gathering Berries, 1874 wood engravingGift of Chris Welles Feder in memory of Irwin Feder, 2018.218.379 1/8” x 13 5/8” “[Winslow Homer’s] prints trace developments in his compositional strategies and preferred subjects—domesticity, leisure, and manual labor, all set against idyllic New England landscapes—that continued even after […]

Impact FAM loan: The Blue Lagoon, Svartsengi Geothermal Pumping Station, Iceland

Laura McPhee (US American, b. 1958)The Blue Lagoon, Svartsengi Geothermal Pumping Station, Iceland, 1988 chromogenic printGift of Dr. Anthony Terrana29 ¼” × 37” “Inspired by the long tradition of landscape photography that imagined nature as a sublime and spiritual place…McPhee decided to capture not only nature’s awe-inspiring beauty, but also the […]