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Mary Hallock Foote: Not your Wild West
Woman artist and writer dares to portray a domesticated American West with families, mining camps and settlements
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Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming: Intrepid Travel Writer and Artist
Paintings and prose from a Victorian era Lady wandering the globe
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Bill Russell
4

April 2024

Louis Le Breton: Ships and Demons
Exploring and Drawing on the High Seas
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Jo Brocklehurst: Finding Truth and Beauty in London’s Subculture
Drawing club goers, anarcho-punks and fetishists
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March 2024

Diego Rivera: The Moscow Sketchbook
Mexican muralist bears witness to the revolution
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George Grosz: Haunted by Humanity
Wandering Berlin and New York streets observing and satirizing people
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February 2024

Thomas Bewick: Woodcuts of 18th C. Rural Life
Miniature masterpieces, tail-pieces and a sketchbook found
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14
Dong Kingman: Art (and Joy) of the City
A plein air painter paints the megalopolis but is it visual journalism?
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13

January 2024

Huỳnh Phương Đông: Visions of The Vietnam War
Glory and pain in the art of the artist-soldiers of North Vietnam
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Théodore Géricault: Romantic to Real
Drawing the Gruesome Cato Street Conspiracy Hangings
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December 2023

A Year of Histories of Reportage
Here are a few of the artists I wrote about this past year, that are engaged with humanity; with discernment, whose visual stories are both artful and…
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John Singer Sargent: Berbers and Bedouins
Finding an affinity with nomadic peoples and exotic cultures
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