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Humanized Mechanization. The only U.S. artist to rival Peale's mastery of still life was an Irishman named William M. Harnett. As sickly as Peale, Harnett was also dirt-poor to start with, took to painting still lifes because he could not afford live models. He made his dead models-rabbits, books, fruit, paper money-so convincing that guards were once posted to protect his canvases from clutching gallerygoers...
...Author Harnett Kane of New Orleans told of Louisiana elections held in white bars or bordellos, which no Negro dared enter. He recalled Huey Long's remark after the Legislature repealed Louisiana's poll tax in 1934: "The white primary will take care of the nigger...
...HARNETT T. KANE New Orleans Item New Orleans...
...Stuart's pupil Vanderlyn; a pioneer surrealist work, Deluge, by Washington Allston, with limp white corpses, fantastic serpents, a four-fanged she-wolf; Raphael Peale's After the Bath, in which the ultra-realistic painting of pins in a towel antedated the work of meticulous Realist William Harnett...
...Grandma's Hearth. No description of Chicago Bills survives, but Grandma's Hearth, the records say, was so real that visitors tried to flick the painted flies off it. Painter Haeberle got a name as a worthy successor to Connecticut's great Eyefooling painter, William Harnett...