Author - Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

collage-like image, starting with a dark background with branches and lights, the next level is full of white flower, green leaves and green/blue bubbles, then a photograph like image of a blue sky, sandy beach and green seas, then a top image at an angle of a snowy landscape with a small structure.

The Visionary Assemblages of Nancy Staub Laughlin

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Painting of a man at a door

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Winter Tales

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

A gallery space with an organically patterned wall, paintings, and a sculpture with foliage in the center of the room.

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Adventurous Experiments

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Two girls looking at a squirrel amongst foliage.

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“There is a harmony in autumn”

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Painting of pink flowers in a blue and white bowl with Chinese-like characters drawn on the bowl, on a tablecloth.

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“Still life is the touchstone
of painting”

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Many multi-colored concentric circles on a titled diamond-shaped canvas.

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Affinities of Abstraction in Wilmington, Delaware

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

Figure 1. William James Aylward (1875-1956). Variant of “The Clipper’s Home Was In South Street,” frontispiece for “The Clipper-Ship and Her Seamen,” by W. J. Aylward, Scribner’s Magazine, April 1917. Oil on canvas. 30 1/8 × 24 1/8 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Beverly P. Hoffman in memory of her husband, Howard E. Hoffman, 2019.

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“Let us imagine ourselves back among the handsome ships.”

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

A girl on a field of grass with large yellow flowers and bugs beside her.

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Fairy Tales to Nursery Rhymes: The Michael and Esther Droller Collection of Picture Book Art

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.

A man with white hair looks at the viewer.

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Howard Pyle’s Samuel Nimmy. Questions, Answers, and More Questions

by Mary F. Holahan Ph.D.