2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005 VOLUME 3 / NUMBER 1 IN THIS ISSUE: ART HISTORY 101  Wadsworth Celebrates the American Landscape  Dotha’s Tribute Turns 75  In Step with Wallace Stevens  A Letter from Monet’s Garden Subscribe Now! ORDER ONLINE  On the cover: Thomas Cole, View of Monte Video, the seat of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq., 1828 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Contents pg 7 From the Publisher: Art History 101. By Elizabeth J. Normen pg 8 Letters, etc. pg 12 When Artists Owned Hartford’s Streets. By Bob Gregson pg 18 Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School. By Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser pg 24 The Enigma of Wallace Stevens. By Christine Palm pg 30 The Bushnell: Dotha’s Crowning Gift to Hartford. By Diana Ross McCain pg 36 re: Collections—Photographer Augustus Washington: Portrait of a Young Man. By Nancy Finlay pg 38 Shoebox Archives—Alfred Pope of Hill-Stead has lunch with Claude Monet. By Polly Pasternak Huntington pg 40 Destination–Visit the nation’s first museum devoted to collecting American art, and one of the top university print collections in the United States. New Britian Museum of American Art. By Elizabeth J. Normen Davison Art Center. By Elizabeth J. Normen pg 43 Afterword–Expansion at two area museums, and more… pg 44 Soapbox–Why public art is good for Hartford. By Ken Kahn

2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005

• Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School

• The Enigma of Wallace Stevens

• Lunch with Monet

AUG/SEP/OCT 2004

• The Education of Ella Grasso

• Ancient Burying Ground

• Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager

MAY/JUN/JUL 2004

• Miracle on Capital Avenue

• Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War

• A Piece of Silk Tells of the Richly Textured Fabric of Mill Town Life

FEB/MAR/APR 2004

• Hospital Rock

• A Well-stocked Saddlebag for the Doctor on Horseback

2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004

• A War Contested

• “If You Don’t Need It, DON’T BUY IT”

• Manufacturing for the War Effort

• Fighting for Freedom

SUMMER 2003

• An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age

• Audacious Alliances

• Sophia Woodhouse’s Grass Bonnets

SPRING 2003

• Hartford’s Motion Picture Palaces

• A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy

• The Hartford Dark Blues

WINTER 2003

• A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing

• The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street

• Francis Goodwin II’s reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge

FALL 2002

• A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History

• Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut

• A “Tomitude”