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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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Powder, Patience, and Paint: How Colonial Artists Built Likeness in Layers

No one rushed a face in the eighteenth century. To paint a likeness that endured,...
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Paint Sign Revolt: How Signage Became Subversion

In Revolutionary America, paint met purpose in the most public ways. The wooden sign swinging...
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Layers of Liberty: The Technique and Symbolism of Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill

When I paint, I don't start with the surface - I start with what's beneath...
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Ladies in Light: The Women Immortalized by American Portraiture

They do not shout or command, yet they remain unforgettable. In the portraits of the...
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Join or Die: The Birth of American Political Cartooning

Long before social media memes or editorial cartoons filled Sunday papers, there was a snake....
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Ink and Uprising: Revolutionary War Newspapers as Visual Resistance

Before there was a flag, there was a page. Before armies stood in formation, lines...
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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...
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Hairlines and Honor: How Revolutionary Men Styled Their Portraits

The men of the Revolution were careful with their image. Before they were leaders on...
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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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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...