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Erasistratus the Physician Discovers the Love of Antiochus for Stratonice was painted in 1772, the year George III appointed Benjamin West historical painter to the king. The painting derives its subject from a legend loosely based on Greek history. West’s picture tells the story of Seleucus, the king of Syria, who has summoned the eminent Greek physician Erasistratus to diagnose a mysterious ailment afflicting his son Antiochus. After observing…

…as one of five artists selected by Congress to create historical paintings for the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. This drawing of Christopher Columbus looking heavenward is a study for Vanderlyn’s Landing of Columbus, which Congress commissioned between 1836 and 1837. Vanderlyn completed the canvas in 1842, and it was installed in the Capitol in 1847, where it remains to this day. The painting twice appeared on stamps issued by the United States Pos…

…enting the lives of Americans hardest hit by the Great Depression. This is one of a group of images made by Wolcott to chronicle the lives of cotton pickers in the Mississippi Delta. Captured in a moment of repose, the image does not give a sense of the backbreaking work performed by these young laborers. Sometimes it was beauty, not suffering, that Wolcott tried to capture with her camera. It was the effortless beauty of the workers’ natural pose…

…quilt may have been made for the minister of that church or to raise money for a church project. Of the forty-one signed blocks, twenty one are signed by men and twelve by women. Considering the large number of men identified on this quilt, it is unlikely all of them stitched their own block and more likely they gave money to the project in return for someone making their block. The quilt is finely made with simple yet elegant and even quilting in…