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PleinAir Salon Art Competition Winners
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G’won, Try Gouache!
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During the first half of the nineteenth century, America’s first exciting period of “homegrown” art coalesced around what came to be known as the Hudson River School. Painted during the halcyon period prior to the [...]
Red, White, and Blue
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