Painting Central Park
No doubt, the question has been nagging at you for years: What is the finest work of art ever created in the United States? In 1862, Harper’s Monthly decided it was the 843 acres of Manhattan’s Central Park—using words like “exquisite” and “perfection” just months after the park opened. Painting Central Park features one hundred masterpieces from the past one hundred and fifty years of work from legendary figures in American art: Winslow Homer, George Bellows, Childe Hassam, and Marc Chagall, among them.
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Matt Sutherland
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