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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

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Subject: Stages of History (fwd)


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> 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
>
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> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:55:27 EDT
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> Subject: Stages of History
> Resent-Subject:      Stages of History
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> 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
>