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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BIGGS_210709_039.JPG: Masks are required for entrance.
2. BIGGS_210709_049.JPG: Carol Wheatley, Mark Wheatley, Sara Duke
3. BIGGS_210709_062.JPG: Before returning to the gallery... Please wash your hands for at least 30 seconds, and take a moment to verify that you are wearing your mask properly, covering both your nose and mouth.
4. BIGGS_210709_068.JPG: Feeling Lost? Scan to access our museum brochure with a gallery map.
5. BIGGS_210709_075.JPG: Carrie Anne Baade Hell Mouth, 2019
6. BIGGS_210709_082.JPG: Mary Putman A Map of the World, 2006
7. BIGGS_210709_089.JPG: Victor Spinski Machine III, ca 1969
8. BIGGS_210709_095.JPG: Haystacks William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) ca. 1881 Oil on canvas Sewell C. Biggs bequest; 2004.453 After finishing his formal art education in Munich, the Indiana-born William Merritt Chase returned to New York to begin a profitable career in portraiture. He soon spent weeks of the summers of 1879–1881 in upstate New York painting plein-air studies with such other artists as Winslow Homer (1836–1910), John Twachtman (1853–1902), and J. Alden Weir (1852–1919). Works like Haystacks were early steps towards Chase's more fully developed impressionistic landscapes of the later 1880s and ‘90s.
9. BIGGS_210709_097.JPG: Summer Girl Robert Reid (1862–1929) ca. 1899 Oil on canvas Sewell C. Biggs bequest; 2004.406 Robert Reid began studying painting in 1880 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in his hometown of Boston, and later studied at the Art Students League in New York City and the Acad�mie Julian in Paris. In 1889, Reid returned to New York and began painting impressionistic portraits of modern young women at the same time he began designing mural studies.
10. BIGGS_210709_123.JPG: Spring Thaw Walter Elmer Schoefield (1867–1944) ca. 1913 Oil on canvas Gift of Sewell C. Biggs; 1996.15 Although Walter Elmer Schoefield never lived in the art colony of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he is associated with the Pennsylvania impressionist movement that emanated from this region. Like his better-known contemporary Edward Redfield (1869–1965), Schoefield perpetuated the rugged, romantic image of regional impressionist painters by working outdoors on enormous canvases in the coldest and most inhospitable environments.
11. BIGGS_210709_125.JPG: Old Orchard John Henry Twachtman (1853–1902) ca. 1880–81 Oil on canvas Sewell C. Biggs bequest; 2004.461 The Ohio-born John Henry Twachtman studied painting in Munich and New York, but he likely painted Old Orchard during eight months of teaching alongside Frank Duveneck (1848–1919) in Florence, Italy. Many believe that this work exhibits the artist's early attempt at what eventually became his mature and more-abstract, plein-air style.
12. BIGGS_210709_135.JPG: Emmeline Beach Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) 1881 Oil on canvas Gift of Sewell C. Biggs; 1992.47 Boston-born Abbott Handerson Thayer began his art studies at the Brooklyn Art School and the National Academy of Design before spending four years at the �cole de Beaux-Arts in Paris. Thayer achieved recognition for his dramatic landscapes and romantic figures; here, the portrait is of his second wife. Despite moving to isolated New Hampshire, Thayer achieved financial success through the support of his influential patrons and teaching.
13. BIGGS_210709_142.JPG: Frank Stephens Caroline Stephens, 1919
14. BIGGS_210709_146.JPG: Boats at Low Tide Edward Henry Potthast (1857–1927) 1908 Oil on canvas Sewell C. Biggs bequest; 2004.458 Born in Ohio, Edward Henry Potthast trained as an artist in Cincinnati, but he also studied in Antwerp, Munich, and Paris. An American impressionist, Potthast focused on colorful scenes of rural labor. This painting, exhibited in 1908 at the National Academy of Design, demonstrates the artist's preference for realist subject matter, like this simple depiction of work boats.
15. BIGGS_210709_149.JPG: Woman in White Herman Dudley Murphy (1867–1945) 1904 Mixed media Sewell C. Biggs bequest; 2004.457 Like his predecessor Robert Reid (1862–1929), Herman Dudley Murphy attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Acad�mie Julian in Paris. Both artists were members of the Boston school of impressionism, but unlike Reid, Murphy relied on Japanese aesthetics. Beginning in the 1876 Centennial, the arts of Japan again became extremely popular with American artists.
16. BIGGS_210709_152.JPG: American Impressionism (ca. 1880–1910) Until this time, artists had painted countless outdoor scenes and settings for centuries, but European academic artists of the late 1800s began experimenting with recording specific effects of light and atmosphere. Painting outdoors, or plein air, gave their work a fresh, immediate appearance with unblended brush strokes and quick applications of paint. Many of these artists created their work in rural settings, such as Barbizon, France, away from their urban artist studios. American students studying art in Paris in the 1870s and ‘80s witnessed these ideas of the first European impressionists. This style of painting, initially judged as a controversial reaction to the academic traditions, arrived late in America but grew into enormous and enduring popularity for artists, art instructors, and collectors. While French impressionism often celebrated realist subjects, such as the poor, urban industry and leisure activities, American impressionism mostly featured landscapes and portraits of wealthy Americans.
17. BIGGS_210709_155.JPG: Mountain Stream at Sunrise Ralph A. Blakelock (1847–1919) 1879–95 Oil on canvas Gift of Sewell C. Biggs; 1992.2 The tonal work of Ralph Blakelock foreshadowed the modern movement in American art, due mostly to its elements of introspection, expressiveness, and abstraction. Blakelock had no formal training in painting, and he never felt the need to study in Europe, instead touring through the American West n 1869. The artist experienced a series of mental breakdowns and entered a mental asylum in 1901, which allowed his release for one day in 1916 to attend a retrospective of his work, including Mountain Stream at Sunrise, in New York's Reinhardt Galleries.
18. BIGGS_210709_158.JPG: A Glimpse of the Hudson George Inness (1825–1894) ca. 1880 Oil on cardboard Sewell C. Biggs bequest; 2004.456 After beginning his artistic training with itinerant painter John Jesse Barker (dates unknown), George Inness would later work as a map-engraver during his teenage years, studying landscape painting under R�gis Fran�ois Gignoux (1816–1882). In these early years, he also studied at the National Academy of Design, as well as with Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole (1801–1848) and Asher B. Durand (1796–1886). Inness often traveled to Europe, in particular France and Italy, where he practiced painting outdoors, or plein air.
19. BIGGS_210709_164.JPG: Tenth Street Studio of William Merritt Chase Reynolds Beal (1867–1951) 1894 Oil on canvas Sewell C. Biggs bequest; 2004.452 Reynolds Beal met William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) in 1891 while studying at the Art Students League. Soon after, the budding artist enrolled in Chase's Shinnecock Summer School of Art to study plein-air painting techniques. By 1894, Beal was one of Chase's rare private pupils within his famous studio on West Tenth Street in New York City.
20. BIGGS_210709_167.JPG: Study in White Clawson Shakespeare Hammitt (1857–1927) ca. 1890s Oil on canvas Gift of Sewell C. Biggs; 1993.6 Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Clawson Shakespeare Hammitt received his early art education and support from Methodist minister Alfred Thompson Scott (1832–1914) and artist and collector Henry Lea Tatnall (1829–1885). In 1882, Hammitt opened the first art school in Delaware, while continuing his own education, studying under Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), Thomas Anshutz (1851–1912), and William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), as well as the Acad�mie Julian in Paris.
21. BIGGS_210709_180.JPG: The Elder's Daughter John Rogers (1820–1904) Executed after the original of 1886 Painted plaster Gift of Sewell C. Biggs; 1994.49 John Rogers's sculptures were mass-produced genre scenes, available in a variety of sizes and decorative surfaces. They appealed to a growing number of middle-class Americans who aspired to be art collectors. These extremely popular objects artistically placed important social, cultural, and literary topics of the late 1800s into the homes of thousands of Americans.
22. BIGGS_210709_184.JPG: Recruiting Peter Stuyvesants's Army for the Recapture of Fort Casimir Albertus del Orient Browere (1814–1887) 1838 Oil on canvas Gift of Sewell C. Biggs; 1998.2 Paintings depicting historic scenes of national importance legitimized America as a great nation with a growing noble past. These pictures grew in popularity as a result, with artists painting images of the Revolutionary War and numerous portraits of George Washington, the quintessential American hero. They also recorded many local military and historic events, like this painting, which features Delaware's Dutch colonists preparing to reclaim Fort Casimir in New Castle from the controlling Swedes in 1654.
23. BIGGS_210709_203.JPG: Kim Klabe King of Pain
24. BIGGS_210709_220.JPG: Bass Otis Bass Otis and Family, 1832
25. BIGGS_210709_225.JPG: Portrait of a Woman Robert Street (1796–1865) 1834 Oil on canvas Gift of Sewell C. Biggs; 1992.45 Robert Street began his career in Philadelphia as a painter of historic events, but he began focusing on portraiture in the 1820s. Here he emphasized the sitter's wealth and fashionable status by adding expensive jewelry and allusions to classical architecture, such as the column in the background.
26. BIGGS_210709_228.JPG: Rembrandt Peale Portrait of Thomas Bradford, ca 1820s
27. BIGGS_210709_239.JPG: Eric W. Zippe Winterthur Oak
28. BIGGS_210709_260.JPG: Knicoma Frederick Untitled from the Series Channel A (Time)
29. BIGGS_210709_273.JPG: Staff are permitted to go mask-less in their own offices. Do not enter.
30. BIGGS_210709_286.JPG: William Louis Sonntag Misty Mountain, perhaps 1868
31. BIGGS_210709_291.JPG: Niagara James Hamilton (1819–1878) 1866 Oil on canvas Gift of Sewell C. Biggs; 1993.4 Tourists began visiting Niagara Falls in the late 1700s, but the business itself grew tremendously in the 1850s when the world's first railway suspension bridge spanned the Niagara River. Once tourists could visit via the railroad, images of Niagara became very popular subjects in American landscapes.
32. BIGGS_210709_294.JPG: Niagara Falls Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) 1869 Oil on board Sewell C. Biggs bequest; 2004.445 The industrial revolution brought the nation increased wealth and availability of goods, while at the same time, Americans became nostalgic for the perceived purity and majesty of the pre-industrial American landscape. Artists such as Albert Bierstadt and other leaders of the Hudson River School painted works that appealed to this interest in American scenery.
33. BIGGS_210709_299.JPG: William Louis Sonntag A Mountain Stream in Western Pennsylvania, perhaps 1870s
34. BIGGS_210709_305.JPG: Reunion (4/8) Charles Allmond (1931–) 1993 Bronze Museum purchase; 2004.503 Charles Allmond, a life-long resident of Wilmington, Delaware, is best known as a uniquely successful abstract artist in the competitive field of highly naturalistic wildlife art. Sculpting since 1982, Allmond's work is carved directly from stone and wood with additional series cast in bronze. With degrees in agronomy and law, this self-taught artist was encouraged to sculpt by the many artists and collectors of the Wilmington art scene. As the former President of The Society of Animal Artists, Allmond's work has been exhibited in venues across America, Canada and Sweden and can be found in the collections of the University of Delaware, Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, the Leigh Yawley Woodson Art Museum, St. Hubert's Giralda Museum of Animal Art.
35. BIGGS_210709_317.JPG: To prevent the spread of germs the drinking fountain is temporarily closed.
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First State Heritage Park is Delaware's first urban "park without boundaries" linking historic and cultural sites in the city that has been the seat of state government since 1777. It is a partnership of state and city agencies under the leadership of Delaware State Parks. It is located in Dover, Kent County, Delaware in the United States. Delaware was the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. The sites of the park highlight Delaware's role as the "First State." First State Heritage Park is open year round, with special tours of the sites given the first Saturday of each month.

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Biggs Museum of American Art

The Biggs Museum of American Art houses a permanent collection of American fine and decorative arts as well as changing exhibitions throughout the year. It is open Tuesday - Saturday, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.n.
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