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Box 48

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Opening events. Guest lists, 1985-1986

 File — Box: 48, Folder: 15
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Benjamin West (1738-1820) was the first American artist to win international acclaim. This exhibition of 37 paintings and 50 drawings served as a comprehensive survey of his career and included two of the earliest known portraits by West, painted in his native Pennsylvania, a version of his first historical commission in England, and one of his best-known history paintings, William Penn's Treaty with the Indians. Darrel L. Sewell, the Robert L. McNeil Curator of American Art; Joseph J....
Dates: 1985-1986