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Richard Morris Hunt

1895
Oil on canvas
254 x 139.7 cm (100 x 55 in.)

Biltmore House

Asheville, NC

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Richard Morris Hunt (1828-1895) was an architect who is widely credited as the one of the fathers of American architecture. He started the first studio in America to formally train young architects in New York and took a prominent role in founding the American Institute of Architects, of which he became president in 1888. Much of his work is...
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Frederick Law Olmsted

1895
Oil on canvas
254 x 139.7 cm (100 x 55 in.)

Biltmore House

Asheville, NC

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"I have all my life been considering distant effects and sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future." -- Fredrick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is widely recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker. His first, his most loved, and in many ways he's best...
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Angels, after a relief, Church of Los Jeronimos, Granada

1893-1916
Watercolor and graphite on heavy wove watercolor paper
43.1 cm. x 32.1 cm., actual

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From: Harvard Clear wax used as a resist to produce white highlights. The subject of this watercolor has been identified by Mary Crawford Volk (unpublished letter in the drawing department's curatorial files,16 July 1990) as a relief panel in the 16th-century "retablo" of the Church of Los Jer—nimos in Granada. According to the diary entry of...
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