Daily News | Five iconic American artworks on display at PAFA’s newest show
If there is an American artist whose work, over the last century or so, has amazed you, chances are the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has had some role to play in the making of it. Its ongoing “Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776–1976″ exhibit “explores the role that art has played in influencing our national history and identity over 200 years,” according to PAFA.
It’s a show full of iconic imagery that represents the best of American art over the centuries — but what works stand out the most from the 100 on display? We askedArguably, the most famous fox in American art history appears in artist Winslow Homer’s 1893 oil on canvas,. As a band of crows swoop in on a lone fox almost drowning in snow, PAFA’s chief of curatorial affairs Anna O. Marley finds the painting “devastating.” But yet, she said, “...it touches viewers of all ages and backgrounds.
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