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This is a half-length portrait of the Reverend Absalom Jones in his ecclesiastical robes, with Bible in hand.

This is a drawing of the destruction by fire of Pennsylvania Hall created by John Caspar Wild and printed by J.T. Bowen. Opened on May 14, 1838 on 6th Street near Race Street, Pennsylvania Hall stood for a mere few days till a white anti-abolition mob burned it down on the evening of May 17.

The artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) created a strikingly diverse body of work, ranging in style from realism to cubism to abstract expressionism, and in form from paintings to collages to mosaics. The home Krasner once shared with her husband, fellow artist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), was designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1994.

Natalia Torres del Valle's abstract and textural paintings are built on memories of landscapes and our interconnectedness with the natural world. Her work is created with foraged soils and rocks, earth-based pigments, and lake pigments from plants.

The dream of researchers hoping to refurnish an interior space is always to find photographs of the space from the period of interpretation.

This lesson explore the history of Weir Farm where artist Weir painted landscapes.

The use of camouflage in the military during World War I came as a result of technology and circumstance. Aerial photography made masses of weaponry or troops a liability, unless they were hidden from the camera’s eye. As the war in Europe became increasingly a stand-off between enemy troops dug into trenches in close proximity, and often in the open, the need for camouflage became greater.

Artist Laura Von Rosk creates experiences of specific places in small scale paintings. She participated as an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park in 1996.

Erin Currier participated as an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park in 2019.

Lisa Furman, an artist and art therapist from New Haven, CT participated as an Artist-in Residence at Acadia National Park in 2022.