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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Are these perhaps Thomas Cole's series in the National Gallery in Washington? Brenda MacEachern, Slide Curator Visual Arts Department University of Western Ontario London, Ontario [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Lentz <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 4:47 PM Subject: Stages of History (fwd) > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Would anyone responding to Prof. Ryan's request please pass the > information on to me? I can remember the set of paintings also, and also > cannot remember the artist or the titles. I'm not even sure if I saw them > in person or in print. And now it's going to drive me crazy. I tried > various titles in World painting index (basic set and supplements 1 and 2) > but came up empty. > Susan Lentz > University of Calif. > Santa Barbara, CA 93106 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:55:27 EDT > From: Patrick Ryan <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Stages of History > Resent-Subject: Stages of History > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > Hello, > I'm a professor of American history, and I thought someone on the list might > be able to help me locate a set of four paintings which depict the classical > republican stages of history - that is the rise and fall from agrarian > simplicity to civic virtue to imperial corruption to social disintegration. I > believe this artist was an American, but he may have been a European patronized > by Americans in the early nineteenth century. Trouble for me is that I can not > seem to recall where I saw this set, or any details relating to their > production. I associated them immediately with the ideology of the American > revolution, because I'm an American historian, but it's possible that they were > produced during the Italian Renaissance. If I could have clues as to the > artists name, or of course the names of the paintings... I'd be grateful. > > Patrick Ryan > University of Texas at Dallas >