The Presidents of the USA
The Bronze Sentinel of Fifth Avenue casts one of the avenue's gilded guardians in the patient gravity of weathered metal — a statue keeping its long watch over the carriage trade
Tuesday Oct 5th 1858 — a documentary engraving of the iron-and-glass marvel of Bryant Park reduced to cinders in fifteen minutes
with all the powder-smoke confidence of a republic certain its borders had not yet found their proper shape
The Croce Atomizer Patent — a Study in Vapor and Vanity is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling
Life of George Washington, The Citizen 1854 Size:24x18 The Presidents of the USALife of George Washington, The Citizen 1854 belongs to the mid century cult of the Founder, a lithographic meditation on Washington not as general or president but as private man the republic, three decades before its rupture, still reaching back to Mount Vernon for instruction in what an American ought to be. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,