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The authenticity of the painting, which was seized by the British Navy during the Revolutionary War, had been questioned because of overpainting and gaps in its provenance.
PAFA announces Anne E. McCollum as Chairperson of the Board of Trustees
McCollum is the first female to lead the Board of Americas first art museum and school.
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.-The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced the election of Anne E. McCollum as the organization s new chairperson of the Board of Trustees. McCollum will succeed Kevin Donohoe as the first female leader of America s oldest art museum and school. Donohoe will remain on the board as a trustee and chair emeritus, and McCollum will assume the role on July 1, 2021.
Anne has my full support. She has a reputation for working successfully with the Board and staff and supporting initiatives important to the college and museum, students and visitors, commented Donohoe. I remain totally committed to PAFA, the best art school and museum of American art in the country.
Inspired by European impressionist paintings of open countryside, private gardens, and urban parks, American artists working in the years between 1887 and 1920 turned their attentions to the new landscapes being created in the fast-changing cities and rapidly emerging suburbs of their own country. Up and down the eastern seaboard, a middle-class idyll was brought to life with the construction of railways, trams, and parkways that connected city centers to commuter suburbs, whose inhabitants increasingly turned to gardening as a leisure and predominantly female pursuit. The two arts of painting and garden design are closely related, landscape architect Beatrix Farrand wrote in 1907, except that the landscape gardener paints with actual color, line, and perspective to make a composition . . . while the painter has but a flat surface on which to create his illusion.