David G. Lowe

Articles by this Author

A Prarie Dream Recaptured, October 1969 | Vol. 20, No. 6

The Utopian Swedish colony at Bishop Hill, Illinois, lasted only sixteen years. But in Olof Krans’s strange and evocative paintings it has a kind of immortality

The Case Of The Vanishing Records, August 1969 | Vol. 20, No. 5

The Banner Years, June 1969 | Vol. 20, No. 4

During World War I Childe Hassam painted New York in all its patriotic glory

Death On The Range, October 1967 | Vol. 18, No. 6

Harry Jackson's painting gives the canvas a voice.

Requiem For A Courthouse, October 1966 | Vol. 17, No. 6

The bleak future of Hudson County’s lovely old seat of government illustrates the threat to our heritage of beauty from a generation that neither builds nor remembers well

A Son’s Tribute, February 1966 | Vol. 17, No. 2

Three long-lost paintings of Washington in action (above, at Germantown) were part of G.W.P. Custis’ lifelong effort to glorify the foster father he adored

The House That Sam Built, October 1965 | Vol. 16, No. 6

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