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Permanent Collection • Exhibitions
Face Lift: Caption This!Week Five: Me and My Shadow
Week Five’s comparison shows two very different styles of portraiture, but the juxtaposition of the images makes it appear that there’s a conversation going on. Tell us what you think Otto Neumann’s figure might be saying to Marguerite Miller’s portrait of Jane Allen. Read the full terms and conditions for the Face Lift: Caption This! […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Four: There was a Little Girl…
There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882) Let your inner-child come out and suggest a caption for this interesting juxtaposition. Read […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week One: Ms. Johnson and Colonel Elliott
In conjunction with our Face Lift exhibition, we are launching a caption writing contest and we need your participation! Each week of the exhibition, curator Sara Arnold will present a set of images—as paired in the gallery—and we invite you to submit a clever comment on our blog that expresses your own interpretation of the comparison. The author of our […]
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