Descendant of Old MA Family Line Treasures Portraits
By Melissa Berry on September 15, 2021
Melissa Berry writes about Carolyn Hart Wood, from one of the oldest families in MA, and two charming portraits she has from her family’s past... (Read More)
Tag: Art and Artists
Unsolved Mystery: Stunning Theft from Boston Art Museum
By Tony Pettinato on March 18, 2019
An article about the unsolved theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on 18 March 1990; the priceless paintings remain missing to this day... (Read More)
Artists in the Tribe: My Cousin Maxfield Parrish
By Thomas Jay Kemp on November 20, 2018
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about his cousin Frederick “Maxfield” Parrish (1870-1966), a famous American painter and illustrator... (Read More)
Artists in the Tribe: My Cousin Eastman Johnson
By Thomas Jay Kemp on November 12, 2018
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about his cousin Jonathan Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), a painter known as the “American Rembrandt in his day.”.. (Read More)
Newspaper Clue Leads to Old Family Painting
By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 25, 2018
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about an 1849 painting by Robert Walter Weir that was found in Whitman Bailey’s attic in 1942... (Read More)
I Use GenealogyBank for More than Genealogy!
By Thomas Jay Kemp on April 20, 2018
An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about searching old newspapers to learn more about a painting of his hometown of Stamford, Conn., by Lyell Edwin Carr... (Read More)
