"Does hindsight intensify meaning?" Elizabeth Kornhauser discusses the history and implications of Jules Tavernier's painting "Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California."
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Jules Tavernier (American, born France, 1844–1889). Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California, 1878. Made in San Francisco, California, United States. Oil on canvas; 48 x 72 1/4 in. (121.9 x 183.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2016 (2016.135)
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Elizabeth Kornhauser on Jules Tavernier
"Does hindsight intensify meaning?" Elizabeth Kornhauser on the implications of Jules Tavernier's painting Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California.
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
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Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, The American Wing
Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, The American Wing
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Jules Tavernier
1878