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Our Winter Art Show

March 2024
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Charles Curran grew up in Ohio, studied in Paris, and settled in New York, but his subject matter rarely varied: he liked to paint young women engaged in domestic chores. In the 1887 work (right) titled Shadow Decoration , Curran uses the laundry hanging on the line as an opportunity to experiment with some very subtle effects of light.

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