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America: painting a nation - exhibition talks

Mapping the American experience

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PJ Brownlee, associate curator, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago Find out about genre paintings and the exquisitely detailed still-life paintings of flowers, letters, books and smoking pipes, which illustrate the social practices and material culture of daily life in 19th-century America.

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America: painting a nation - exhibition talks

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American technique and studio practice

David Bomford, director of conservation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Find out about the early painting techniques used by American artists, where these practices came from and how they developed throughout the course of American history.

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