Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young: First Black U.S. National Park Superintendent
1916 / Photograph from glass negative / Various collections, including the
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH
Tag Archives: History
National Culinary Arts Month~ July 13
Game Pie Dish by Minton’s Pottery and Porcelain Factory
1877 / Lead-glazed earthenware / 7 3/4″x15 5/8″x11 3/4″ / Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
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National Park & Recreation Month~ July 13
Enos Abijah Mills: Father of Rocky Mountain National Park
Photograph from Denver Public Library Special Collections & Archives
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National Culinary Arts Month~ July 12
The Twelfth Month: Making Mochi Cakes by Utagawa Kunisada
(Third Panel of Triptych)
1854 / Polychrome woodblock triptych / 14 15/16″x30 1/8″
Various collections, including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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National Park & Recreation Month~ July 12
Zion Valley by Thomas Moran
c.1900 / Watercolor on paper / 8 7/16″x5 7/8″
Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, OK
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National Culinary Arts Month~ July 11
Woman Baking Pancakes by Adriaan de Lelie
Between 1790 and 1810 / Oil on panel / 20 3/5″x16 1/2″ / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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National Park & Recreation Month~ July 11
A Yellowstone Geyser
by Grafton Tyler Brown
1887 / Oil on canvas / 28″x11″
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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National Culinary Arts Month~ July 10
Ebisu God Cooking a Red Snapper by Kitagawa Utamaro
18th century / Woodblock print; ink and color on paper / 14 15/16″x10 3/8″
Various collections, including Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
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National Park & Recreation Month~ July 10
Lower Falls of the Yellowstone by John Henry Twachtman
c.1895 / Oil on canvas / 30″x30″
Promised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
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National Culinary Arts Month~ July 9
The Banquet of Cleopatra (Detail) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1744 / Oil on canvas / 98 1/2″x140 3/5″ / National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Misty Miss Christy 