Edwin Austin Abbey, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the Lady Anne, 1897. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery.
When I visited the Yale University Art Gallery this winter, I completely fell in love with American artist Edwin Austin Abbey’s dramatic painting of a scene from Shakespeare’s Richard III (see above). After viewing his equally-spectacular King Lear painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing, I was inspired to write an article about Abbey for DailyArt Magazine. Click here to read “The American Artist Who Loved Everything British: Edwin Austin Abbey’s Shakespeare Paintings”.
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Alexandra Kiely, aka A Scholarly Skater, is an art historian based in the northeastern United States. She loves wandering down the dark and dusty corners of art history and wholeheartedly believes in visual art's ability to enrich every person's life.
Her favorite periods of art history are 19th-century American painting and medieval European art and architecture. When she not looking at, reading about, writing about, or teaching art, she's probably ice dancing or reading.
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