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Shaw Ruddock Gallery
This installation explores how nineteenth-century artists recorded the visible world and transformed it into visions of the idyllic and ideal.
Selected Works
Worthington Whittredge, American, 1820-1910. Second Beach, Newport, ca. 1878-1880, oil on canvas. Museum Purchase, Florence C. Quinby Fund, in memory of Henry Cole Quinby, Honorary Degree, 1916, 1969.81
About
This installation explores how nineteenth-century artists recorded the visible world and transformed it into visions of the idyllic and ideal. On view alongside works from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾’s permanent collection are atmospheric paintings by Sanford Gifford, Francis Silva, and John Singer Sargent from distinguished private collections and from Colgate University. Supported by Stevens L. Frost Endowment Fund.