“That Is Best Which Liest Nearest”: Longfellow Family Art, 1804–1924

Korzenik, Diana

doi:10.1162/tneq.2007.80.3.491

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September 01 2007

“That Is Best Which Liest Nearest”: Longfellow Family Art, 1804–1924

Diana Korzenik

Diana Korzenik, Professor Emerita at Massachusetts College of Art, has written and taught on the history of American art education. She is the author of the Boston Globe–L. L. Winship award-winning book Drawn to Art (1986). She has written about her collection of old drawing books, manuals, drawing cards, and practice books, now at the Huntington Library, in Pasadena, California, in The Objects of American Art Education (2004). She is currently completing a book about Fanny Appleton Longfellow.

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Diana Korzenik

Diana Korzenik, Professor Emerita at Massachusetts College of Art, has written and taught on the history of American art education. She is the author of the Boston Globe–L. L. Winship award-winning book Drawn to Art (1986). She has written about her collection of old drawing books, manuals, drawing cards, and practice books, now at the Huntington Library, in Pasadena, California, in The Objects of American Art Education (2004). She is currently completing a book about Fanny Appleton Longfellow.

Online ISSN: 1937-2213

Print ISSN: 0028-4866

2007

The New England Quarterly (2007) 80 (3): 491–501.

https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq.2007.80.3.491

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The two-hundredth birthday of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow prompted two curators at the Maine Historical Society to gather materials that demonstrate the skill and respect for art making shared by many members of the Portland, Maine, Longfellow family. This review reflects on their visual creations, produced over the course of 120 years.

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