Archives: Artworks

  • August 30, 2024
    about the work The title Tree of Death most obviously references the Bible’s Matthew  7:17, “But a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil…
  • August 30, 2024
    about the artist Josephine Sibley Couper was born in 1867, two years after the end of the  American Civil War;…
  • August 23, 2024
    about the work According to correspondence from B. King Couper, Josephine Sibley Couper's son, the subject of this painting operated…
  • August 23, 2024
    about the work August Cook’s 1955 Self-Portrait is a physical document of the artist turning his notoriously stern, critical, and impartial eye…
  • August 23, 2024
    about the work Woman in Red Plaid Jacket is a portrait Cook painted of one of his students, whom the museum…
  • August 23, 2024
    about the work Only a few artifacts survive us from this period of Irma Howard Cook's life, many of which…
  • August 23, 2024
    about the work This tiny woodcut exhibits incredible detail for its size.  about the artist August Cook entered the Philadelphia…
  • August 23, 2024
    about the work Only a few artifacts survive to us from this period of Irma Howard Cook's life, many of…
  • August 23, 2024
    about the work coming soon about the artist Frank Austin Coleman was one of the founding members of the Artists's…
  • August 23, 2024
    about the work SAM is privileged to have a few of Mark Catesby’s original works. Pictured here is Page XLI…
  • August 23, 2024
    about the work Artist-naturalists such as Mark Catesby, a self-taught Englishman, are responsible for much of what is known of…
  • August 23, 2024
    about the work This small landscape painting was included in Vadim Bora's solo exhibition at the Spartanburg Art Museum (then…