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alchemy on the hudson: cups runneth over

The nineteenth-century produced a group of American painters who, to an exceptional degree, revealed that a dream or a vision need not be shaped in fantasy but may exist in ordinary aspects of the world around us. That is, a … Continue reading

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dreams in the ordinary world

Into the otherworld. A vision of the isolation of the human spirit in a region beyond time and beyond space… The first half of the nineteenth-century in America produced some of the most poetically evocative paintings of the century anywhere. … Continue reading

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