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The Library Company of Philadelphia, a private lending library founded by Benjamin Franklin in the mid-18th century, commissioned Jennings (an ex-Philadelphian relocated to London) to create a work depicting "the figure of Liberty (with her cap and proper Insignia) displaying the arts" as a representation of slavery and a symbol of the abolitionist movement.
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 ...
Albert Victor's posthumous reputation became so bad that in 1964 Philip Magnus called his death a "merciful act of providence", supporting the theory that his death removed an unsuitable heir to the throne and replaced him with the reliable and sober George V. [118] In 1972, Michael Harrison was the first modern author to re-assess Albert ...
The Brown Hornet's name is a play on the name of the old time radio hero The Green Hornet.In fact, Bill Cosby had done a syndicated radio Brown Hornet series around 1970 that directly parodied the old program and serials and the hardboiled detective genre in general as the hapless hero drove around in his "very fast car" the White Beauty having myriad misadventures with his hoarse-whispering ...
His 1952 exhibition included The Bed-Sheet Painting, a 12 by 16 foot, black painting with a scumbled surface and white bar mounted on unstretched canvas. [2] In the 1950s, he made sculptures using seemingly insignificant materials such as plumber's tape, stapes, grommets, nails, and housepaint. [ 2 ]
Jennings was an editor at Car and Driver from 1980 to 1985, when her name was Jean Lindamood. In 1985 she left with editor-publisher David E. Davis Jr. and several other C/D staffers to found ...
The View star and legal expert Sunny Hostin's husband, Dr. Emmanuel "Manny" Hostin, is among the nearly 200 people named in a new federal lawsuit that accuses the New York City doctor of insurance ...
Alix Jennings (1884–1980) was a British artist, who specialised in portrait, animal and flower painting using oils. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her works are in the collections of the Museum of the Order of St John , Windsor & Royal Borough Museum and at Jesus College, Oxford .