We are celebrating spooky season with a four-part video series featuring works from our collection. Kicking things off is this haunting #WorkoftheWeek—“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”—selected by Kate Crawford, William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art. In the mid-nineteenth century, many artists painted subjects from American literature. A dark and moody picture, this painting was inspired by Robert Browning’s poem about feelings of isolation, failure, and doubt felt by a knight in trai
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We are celebrating spooky season with a four-part video series featuring works from our collection. Kicking things off is this haunting #WorkoftheWeek—“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”—selected by Kate Crawford, William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art. In the mid-nineteenth century, many artists painted subjects from American literature. A dark and moody picture, this painting was inspired by Robert Browning’s poem about feelings of isolation, failure, and doubt felt by a knight in trai
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