[Audio] Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham

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[Audio] Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham

When looking at the photographs of Imogen Cunningham, we encounter images that reflect vital developments in 20th century art and photography — as well as the voice and eye of an undersung master of the camera. Cunningham was a female member of the male-dominated f/64 group of photographers and, despite the art-world’s tendency to overlook women artists, left her indelible stamp on the history and development of modern photography. In Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, featuring work from across Cunningham’s expansive seven-decade career, we invite you to see why this American artist is heralded as one of the most important pioneers of photography — regardless of her gender.

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[Audio] Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real Audio Guide

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[Audio] Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real Audio Guide

An original Polk Museum of Art exhibition, Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real comprises approximately sixty works and focuses on Hopper and Pène du Bois, two very thematically different but stylistically-overlapping artists who became lifelong friends from the time of their earliest studies at the New York School of Art.

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[Audio] Chagall: Stories into Dreams Audio Guide

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Experience Chagall: Stories into Dreams as an audio tour. Look for the numbered prompts on the wall and on the identification labels.

1. Introduction
2. The Fables of La Fontaine
3. The Raven & the Fox
4. The Wolf & the Lamb
5. The Donkey Laden with Sponges
6. Chagall's Fables, Delayed
7. The Cat Metamorphized Into a Woman
8. The Fox & the Grapes
9. The Hen with the Golden Eggs
10. The Charlatan
11. The Two Pigeons
12. The Story of Exodus (Introduction)
13. Story of Exodus (Frontispiece)
14. Pharaoh's Daughter & Moses
15. Moses Sees the Suffering of His People
16. Moses & the Burning Bush
17. God Turns Moses' Staff into a Serpent
18. Chagall's Stories
19. God Sends Aaron into the Desert to Meet Moses
20. Moses & Aaron with the Elders
21. Moses & Aaron with Pharaoh
22. Moses Calls Darkness Down on Egypt
23. Moses Calls the Water Down on the Egyptian Army
24. Miriam Took a Timbrell
25. The People May Drink
26. Moses Blesses Joshua
27. Moses Shows the Elders the Tablets of the Law
28. Thou Shalt Anoint Aaron
29. Two Tablets of the Testimongy
30. The Golden Calf
31. The Golden Earrings
32. Moses Casts Out the Tablets
33. The Ten Commandments
34. Bezeleel and His Two Golden Cherubim
35. God Directs Moses to Make Vestments
36. Garments of Ministration
37. Moses Beholds All the Wok
38. Chagall's Unique Modernism
39. Modest Beginnings