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Posted: March 08, 2012, Last Updated: March 08, 2012
| Rex Stewart
Shadowboxes came into vogue as sailor keepsakes during the 18th century when crews placed in this window-framed box items that denoted a sailor or officer's career while with a ship. This was the early shadowbox. Since then, the shadowbox has developed into pictureque two-dimensional form containing either cultural or maritime-related subjects. As the American maritime market grew in the mid-70s, so did the shadowbox. These were bulky wall pieces that centered around a shipmodel that was plaed in a setting with other vessels or coastal scenes which either depicted a lighthouse or town. ...
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Posted: October 25, 2010, Last Updated: May 19, 2011
| James Puzinas
Randall Davey was born in New Jersey in 1887 and as a young man moved to New York to become an artist. Randall Davey began studies under Robert Henri first at the New York School of Art in 1908 and later, at Henri's own school, studying along side other important artists such as George Bellows, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent and Stuart Davis.1 Robert Henri was an important American artist and influential teacher espousing the merits of painting the urban scenes of America as they actually were, not the idealized views that many painters of the day produced. Come to be known as the Ashcan ...
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