Pippin

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Pippin Artistic reputations are – much like the stock market – hard to assess, and harder yet to predict. Such is the case with the career of Horace Pippin (1888-1946), a self-taught African American painter who lived in West Chester in southeastern Pennsylvania. An artist of national standing by the early 1940s, Pippin had made a meteoric rise from the local renown of his Chester County...
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Talented, Tragic and Triumphant: The Life and Career of Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Talented, Tragic and Triumphant: The Life and Career of Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones It was a time in the American art world when young women artists rarely sold their work for what equaled a small fortune. It was a time when women were sepa­rated from men during their artistic training. It was a time when women seldom shared the limelight with men when winning awards. But in the opening years of the twentieth centu­ry, while the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean still hushed...
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Current and Coming

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Current and Coming Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Greatness More than five hundred objects, artifacts, documents, and photographs have been assembled for a landmark exhibit newly opened at the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum in Allentown. Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Greatness explores the Keystone State’s impact on the sixteenth president’s life, political career, and rise to power. Lincoln’s great-great-grandfather...
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Celebrating a Milestone with the Best of the Past

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Celebrating a Milestone with the Best of the Past Over the years — thirty-five to be precise — Pennsylvania Heritage has enjoyed the distinct pleasure — and great privilege — of presenting readers a veritable treasure trove of works of art held by historical organizations and cultural institutions throughout the Keystone State and beyond. From museums, colleges and universities, galleries, and libraries, we borrowed exceptional artworks in a...
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Bookshelf

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Bookshelf The Place I Call Home: How Abolition and the Underground Railroad Shaped the Communities of Northeastern Pennsylvania by Sherman F. Wooden published by the Center for Anti-Slavery Studies, 2009; 289 pages, paper, $16.95 Established in 1996, the Center for Anti-Slavery Studies (CASS) in Montrose, Susquehanna County, researches, documents, and preserves the history of abolitionism and the...
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