A Thin Disguise
Our traveling exhibition The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum closes its run at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages in Stony Brook, New York, today.
The Gilded Age captures the brilliance of turn-of-the-century society and a new current of sophistication in America. The exhibition includes sixty major artworks by the most important artists of the day. Sneak a peek at Henry Fuller's Illusions, whether you catch the exhibition in Stony Brook or its next venue The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, beginning August 10th.
This robust woman is as thinly veiled as are references to her knowledge and wisdom. Withholding a crystal ball from the child's eager reach, she forestalls revealing a future that may bring disillusionment, sustaining his innocent view of the world a while longer. The artist probably used his wife Lucia Fairchild Fuller as a model. In the background is Mount Ascutny, a prominent landmark near the art colony in Cornish, New Hampshire, where Fuller painted.
Source: Richard Murray. The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).
Pictured: Henry Brown Fuller, 1867–1934, Illusions, before 1901, oil, 70 3/8 x 45 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans.
Our traveling exhibition The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum closes its run at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages in Stony Brook, New York, today.
The Gilded Age captures the brilliance of turn-of-the-century society and a new current of sophistication in America. The exhibition includes sixty major artworks by the most important artists of the day. Sneak a peek at Henry Fuller's Illusions, whether you catch the exhibition in Stony Brook or its next venue The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, beginning August 10th.