Art at Noon: Painting History in the United States Capitol Rotunda
Wednesday, April 1st, 12:00 TO 1:00 PM.
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FREE
Many people today do not tend to think of artists actively shaping our nation’s history, but that is exactly what Philadelphia artist Peter F. Rothermel (1812-1895) and his contemporaries – including Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868), John Gadsby Chapman (1808-1889), William Henry Powell (1823-1879), Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889), and John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) - were attempting to do in securing and executing paintings for the Rotunda from the 1830s-1850s. In our 21st century moment when much of the country is examining it’s troubling and contentious shared artistic past, these pivotal, yet under-studied decades of antebellum American art history urgently merit sustained examination and analysis.
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