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The exhibit starts with a life-sized recreation of the Camden, New Jersey row houses where Thomas grew up. Early on, she knew she wanted to make a difference, so in college she studied pre-law.
Ameiurus vulgaris (Thompson, 1842) The black bullhead or black bullhead catfish (Ameiurus melas) is a species of bullhead catfish. Like other bullhead catfish, it has the ability to thrive in waters that are low in oxygen, brackish, turbid, and/or very warm. [2] It also has barbels located near its mouth, a broad head, spiny fins, and no scales ...
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
Janet Isobel Fish [2] was born on May 18, 1938 (age 86) in Boston, Massachusetts, [3] and was raised in Bermuda, where her family moved when she was ten years old. [3] From a young age, she was surrounded by many artistic influences. Her father was professor of art history Peter Stuyvesant Fish and her mother was sculptor and potter Florence ...
Cetopsis candiru is a carnivorous fish and commonly described as a voracious feeder, making use of powerful jaw musculature and a nearly continuous cutting surface of the incisiform dentition. Their distribution overlaps with that of the related Cetopsis coecutiens and both species are known to simultaneously feed on the same bodies. They do ...
Ameiurus is a genus of catfishes in the family Ictaluridae.It contains the three common types of bullhead catfish found in waters of the United States, the black bullhead (Ameiurus melas), the brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus), and the yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis), as well as other species, such as the white catfish (Ameiurus catus or Ictalurus catus), which are not typically called ...
The American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), also known as a Mississippi paddlefish, spoon-billed cat, or spoonbill, is a species of ray-finned fish. It is the last living species of paddlefish (Polyodontidae). This family is most closely related to the sturgeons; together they make up the order Acipenseriformes, which are one of the most ...
The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...