(artefacts of a `vanishing culture' by C19 sentiment) and non-Western concepts (traits not expressed in Western art). Now, many communities request that museum collections be returned to them. They regard some works as being intended to be seen only by knowledgeable people that are able to control the powers that the work expresses. Exemplary Works Colonial Period. 9 Self-Portrait by Thomas Smith (c. 1690) Pau de Wandelaer by Gansevoort Limner (c. 1730) The Bermuda Group by John Smibert (1729) Boy with Squirrel by John S. Copley (c. 1765) Watson and the Shark by John S. Copley (1778) Death of Wolfe by Benjamin West (1770) Republican Period. The Staircase Group by Charles W. Peale (1795) George Washington by Gilbert Stuart (1796) Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos by John Vanderlyn (1812) 10 Winter Scene in Brooklyn by Francis Guy (c
(artefacts of a `vanishing culture' by C19 sentiment) and non-Western concepts (traits not expressed in Western art). Now, many communities request that museum collections be returned to them. They regard some works as being intended to be seen only by knowledgeable people that are able to control the powers that the work expresses. Exemplary Works Colonial Period. 9 Self-Portrait by Thomas Smith (c. 1690) Pau de Wandelaer by Gansevoort Limner (c. 1730) The Bermuda Group by John Smibert (1729) Boy with Squirrel by John S. Copley (c. 1765) Watson and the Shark by John S. Copley (1778) Death of Wolfe by Benjamin West (1770) Republican Period. The Staircase Group by Charles W. Peale (1795) George Washington by Gilbert Stuart (1796) Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos by John Vanderlyn (1812) 10 Winter Scene in Brooklyn by Francis Guy (c