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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts “A Brandywine Spring,” examining the many faces of spring in the Brandywine Valley will be open to the pub­lic from Saturday, March 25 [1989], through Sunday, May 21 [1989], at the Brandywine River Mu­seum in Chadds Ford. Works of fifteen artists – including William Langston Lathrop, George Cope, Walter Elmer Schofield and members of the Wyeth family – will reflect the...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts Heritage Day, the tenth annual Mennonite folk festival featuring demonstrations of colonial period and rural crafts, will be hosted by the Hans Herr House on Saturday, August 12 [1989], from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. The day-long event also includes demonstrations of farming equipment and meth­ods, as well as educational workshops and presentations. The 1719 historic house mu­seum is located five miles...
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Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts “Blake to Beardsley: The Artist as Illustrator,” recalling the nineteenth century as “the golden age of illustration,” is an exhibit continuing through Sunday, January 8, 1989, at Philadelphia’s prestigious Rosenbach Museum and Library. The exhibit includes original drawings, an selected from the museum’s extensive holdings, by William Blake, Aubrey Beardsley,...
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Posted by on Nov 27, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts “Recent Acquisitions of Costumes and Textiles, 1979-1989,” opening Saturday, Feb­ruary 10, 1990, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, showcases forty of the finest acquisitions made by gift and purchase by the museum during the last decade. On view will be items illustrating the depth and richness of the collections, including a mag­nificent eighteenth century French silk gown, the...
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Posted by on Nov 27, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts Honoring the founders and pioneers of the United States, Old Bedford Village will sponsor “Settler’s Days Ethnic Celebration” during the week­end of July 14-15 [1990]. More infor­mation may be obtained by writing: Old Bedford Village, P.O. Box 1976, Bedford, PA 15522; or by telephoning (814) 623-1156. There is a charge for admission.   “Festival of Fountains,”...
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Posted by on Nov 27, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts A one day conference de­voted to local and transporta­tion history, “Nineteenth Century River Transportation,” will be hosted by the history department of California University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, April 21 [1990]. One ses­sion will commemorate the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary of Capt. Henry Shreve’s successful roundtrip aboard the steamship Enter­prise...
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Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts Francesco Clemente is part of a new generation of painters of the 1980s that have reacted against the reductive and intellectualizing tendencies of minimal and conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s and, in­stead, celebrate the physical, seductive and expressive prop­erties of works of art. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present his works through Sunday, December 23 [1990]. Born in 1952,...
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Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts “Stitches in Time: Quilts, Coverlets and Samplers from the Collection of the West­moreland Museum of Art” will showcase the Greensburg institution’s rare American textiles from Sunday, May 12 [1991], through Sunday, July 7 [1991]. The exhibition will feature thirty patchwork and appliquéd quilts, a dozen woven cover­lets and a number of embroi­dered samplers. To...
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Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts American still life painting began in Philadelphia with simple tabletop subjects by members of the prolific Peale family in the early nineteenth century. By the end of the century, the subjects were expanded to include ornate flower pieces, elaborate studies of dead game, and artfully arranged compositions of household objects. In the twentieth century, American still lifes began to reflect the...
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Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts Photographer and local historian Louis Buehler will give a talk entitled “Here and There with a Camera” on Wednesday, November 20 [1991], at Allentown’s historic Old Courthouse, administered by the Lehigh County Historical Society. The speaker will show rare footage of the 1955 flood in Allentown. For more details, write: Lehigh County Histori­cal Society, Old Courthouse, Fifth...
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