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Group portraits in Picturing America at the Newark Museum - Newark, NJ On May 6, the Newark Museum will open its newly installed American Art Galleries with a groundbreaking exhibition entitled Picturing America. For the first time this collection, which is one of the richest and most comprehensive in the nation, is arranged thematically so that American art is presented in the context of major developments in the country's history and culture. Group portraits have always provided a fascinating opportunity to examine the society and culture of a particular period because the sitters are shown in contemporary dress and settings. This article examines ten of the Newark Museum's outstanding group portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which provide a broad survey of American cultural aspirations, values, tastes, and styles of life during a period of about 150 years.(Continue Reading)
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