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When the Paint Speaks: How Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill Brings Protest Imagery to Life
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Visual Noise: How Revolutionary Art Was Designed to Disrupt
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Unnamed but Unforgotten: The Hidden Hands Behind Revolutionary Colors
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Typography as Tactics: The Visual Warfare of Revolutionary Print

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Art Behind the Mural: How Print Carried the Cause Before the War Was Won

Before treaties were signed and borders drawn, the American Revolution traveled by ink. It moved...
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Biting Lines: The Graphic Satire That Undermined the Crown

Some of the sharpest blades in the American Revolution were etched not in steel, but...
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Brush and Memory: Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill and the Mural’s Visual Voice

When I first put brush to canvas for the 250th Anniversary Mural, I wasn't just...
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Eyes That Speak: Emotional Realism in Revolutionary Portraits

Look closely. Before the brush defines the lips or the folds of a sleeve, it...
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Face of the Nation: Gilbert Stuart’s Iconic Washington

It's strange, really - that the most familiar face in American art is unfinished. Gilbert...
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Flags Banners and Battle Art: The March of Meaning in Motion

In the Revolution, messages did not always arrive on paper. Sometimes they snapped in the...
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From Daughter to Defender: Mary Pickersgill and the Legacy of Revolutionary Threads

Mary Pickersgill did not invent her talent. She inherited it, practiced it, and turned it...
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From Ink to Paint: How Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill Translates Revolutionary Print into Art

There's something fragile about Revolutionary-era print - the kind of fragility that comes from urgency....
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A Brush With Liberty: Charles Willson Peale’s Revolutionary Family Gallery

Charles Willson Peale didn't just paint the American Revolution - he lived it. He fought...
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Handbills and Heraldry: When the Streets Spoke in Ink

If you lived in Boston or Philadelphia in the 1770s, the revolution wasn't just brewing...