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AskART.com: Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson
AskART.com presents a biographical sketch of American artist Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847-1906). Additional information for Dodson includes a bibliography of publications about the artist, museum holdings, current exhibits, etc. Auction records, including highest prices, are available only to AskART members.
The Mentor, the Revolution
Reproduction of the original: The Mentor, the Revolution by Albert Bushnell Hart
Angels of Art
Images of women were ubiquitous in America at the turn of the last century. In painting and sculpture, they took on a bewildering variety of identities, from Venus, Ariadne, and Diana to Law, Justice, the Arts, and Commerce. Bailey Van Hook argues here that the artists' concepts of art coincided with the construction of gender in American culture. She finds that certain characteristics such as &"ideal,&" &"beautiful,&" &"decorative,&" and &"pure&" both describe this art and define the perceived role of women in American society at the time. Most late nineteenth-century American artists had trained in Paris, where they learned to use female imagery as a pictorial language of provocative sensu...
Passages in Time
Offers a unique and critical witness to significant historic photographs, from the period of the inception of photography to the Edwardian era. Asserts historic photographs as vivid and lyrical artefacts which live both as a source of enrichment in contemporary artistic experience, and as documentary witness to our own age. Shows photography as an art in intimate cultural conjunction with painting and literature. We cannot travel back into the past! In the garish light of the blaze of contemporary ‘selfies’ and of the digital editing of photographs, photography has lost contact with the abstract impact and the purity of dimension of historic photography. Historic photography offers, inst...
