Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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See selected images from the exhibition and listen to the audio guide.Online Exhibitions
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Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.London : printed by J[ohn]. M[acock]. for Henry Herringman, at the sign of the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1674.PML 129650ClassificationDepartment
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Uniform titleMountaineers. Way worn traveller; arr.PublishedPhiladelphia : Printed at Carr & Co.s Musical Repository, [1794]DepartmentMusic type
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1868.PML 88401ClassificationDepartment
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Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885.New Haven, Conn., Pub. by J.W. & J. Barber for J.H. Bradley [1863]PML 86034ClassificationDepartment
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February 10 through November 8, 2026
In his landmark 1800 treatise on landscape painting, Elements of Practical Perspective, Pierre Henri de Valenciennes lamented the difficulty of portraying the sun’s light using oil paint. An artist, he explained, cannot look at the blazing body for longer than a moment, lest they be dazzled, and even if they could, “as there is no color in nature that is luminous by itself, the painter is very limited in the means he uses to copy the light of nature. So we laugh at the vain efforts made by an artist when he wants to imitate the color of the sun.”
