Art History
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Look Down! The Art of Yvonne Jacquette (1934–2023)
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Photographing Wartime Connecticut
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Connecticut Feminist Prophet
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Children’s Books: Once Upon a Time in Connecticut
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Ann Petry: “Just Like Georgia Except for the Climate”
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Richard Welling: Hartford’s Artist Historian
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Augustus Washington: Finding Freedom Through the Daguerreotype
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Tiffany’s Stunning Church Windows
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Precious Memories Captured in Hair
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Art for Everyone
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Jack Delano’s FSA Images of Connecticut & Puerto Rico
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Shoebox Archives: Odell Shepard Reflects on the Connecticut Landscape
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Marching With Henry Clay Work
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Charles Ives, Connecticut’s Compelling, Confounding Composer
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Connecticut’s Claim to Musical Theater Fame
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The Carpenters, New Haven Natives
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Eugene O’Neill: New London’s Monte Cristo Cottage
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The Kellogg Brothers Rival Currier & Ives
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Actress Gwen Reed — From Fields to Footlights
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Grating the Nutmeg Podcasts About Art History
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Tour the North
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NORMAN IVES and the ART of the LETTER
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A Helping Hand for Starving Artists
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Calder in the Open Air
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Beauty in a Gravestone
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Painting with Needle & Thread
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Connecticut’s Top 10 Public Sculptures
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The Modernism of Hill-Stead’s Theodate Pope
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Grating the Nutmeg Episode 107: Florence Griswold Opens Her Home to American Impressionisn
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An Autobiography in Scrimshaw
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The Bushnell: Dotha’s Crowning Gift to Hartford
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Photographer Augustus Washington
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John Trumbull: Picturing the Birth of a Nation
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From Atheneum to Art Museum: “Mrs. Berger’s Great Contribution”
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Glamour and Purpose in New Haven’s Union Station
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Connecticut Quilts to Warm Body & Soul
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Destination: The Warner & Palace Theaters
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Anni Albers & Helen Frankenthaler in Connecticut
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Creating Solidarity for Women Artists
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Hill-Stead: A Colonial Revival Performance
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Eliot Noyes, Design Pioneer
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My Dad, Jackie McLean
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Site Lines: John Rogers Jr. , the People’s Sculptor
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Hogpen Hill Farms: A Place to See
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The LeWitts Raise a World-Class Artist
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The Internationally Known Hartt School
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Elbert Weinberg’s Enduring Monuments
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Josef & Anni Albers in Connecticut
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Cover Story: Peace Train’s Popping & Breaking All Stars
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Winter 2018-2019: Our Creative Impulse
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Are You Fanning Your Creative Spark?
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Art of the American West at the New Britain Museum of Art
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Destination: Marian Anderson Studio
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What These Walls Have Heard! New Haven’s Legendary Toad’s Place
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Weir Farm National Historic Site
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Stonington: Poet James Merrill’s House
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“Only waiting to be painted” The Inspirational Landscape of Old Lyme
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Nothing But Freedom
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In Search of the Great Find! 18th and 19th Century American Antiques in Colchester, Connecticut.
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The Federal Art Project in New Haven: The Era, Art, & Legacy
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The Enigma of Wallace Stevens
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Hartford’s Motion Picture Palaces
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The Genius of Connecticut: Give Her Wings!
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The Forlorn Soldier
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New Haven’s Monument Man
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Connecticut’s Mount Rushmore Connection
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Gillette Castle: Home of Connecticut’s Sherlock Holmes
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American Theater in a Humble Connecticut Barn
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Connecticut as a Magnet for Modern Artists
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Katharine Hepburn, Local Girl
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A Passion for Art History
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Art History 101
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An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age: The Hartford Art School
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