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Tag Archives: E. Maurice Bloch
Rediscovered Bingham Portraits: The Dunnicas, Part 3
The work of E. Maurice Bloch (1925-1989), the world’s acknowledged expert on artist George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879), is awe-inspiring. At the University of California Los Angeles, where he was a professor of art history, he was known for his “meticulous scholarship and connoisseurship.” Without the aid of the Internet, and for most of his research, not even a computer, he compiled a wealth of information. But a major mistake needs to be corrected. Continue reading
Patricia Moss, Art Detective on the Portrait Beat
Recently our local columnist on Washington state’s Long Beach Peninsula wrote a fabulous article about me and my work, Patricia Moss, Art Detective on the Portrait Beat. I appreciate all of Cate Gable’s perceptive explanations and compliments. She “gets” what I … Continue reading
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Tagged “But I Forget That I am a Painter and Not a Politician", Albert Christ-Janer, Art Detective, E. Maurice Bloch, Fern Helen Rusk, Friends of Arrow Rock, George Caleb Bingham, John Francis McDermott, Missouri's Famed Painter and Forgotten Politician, Nancy Rash, Patricia Moss, Paul Nagel
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The Inspiration…can scarcely be overestimated
A friend recently alerted us that a bookseller requested a “Bingham expert.” When we replied, we found the bookseller had found the signature, “Geo. Bingham” in an inscription in James Orton’s The Proverbialist and the Poet, published in 1853 by … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century, 19th century American Art, 19th Century Gift Book, Antebellum Gift, Antebellum Gift Book, Art History Research, Art Research, Artist signature, Chagrin Watershed Books, E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bignham, James Orton, John Sartain, John Sinclair, Patricia Moss
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