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“Angel of Victory” Exhibit open Delaware Art Museum

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The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to present "Blessed are the Peacemakers": Violet Oakley's The Angel of Victory (1941), on view February 8 - May 25, 2014. Oakley's The Angel of Victory, originally painted for Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Airfield and now in the Museum's permanent collections, was the first of her 25 wartime altarpieces, completed just two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Thanks to…

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Artwork collection chronicles change

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Curator Heather Coyle leads a tour of the "American Modern" exhibit.

A collection of art which depicts the drama of a changing America in the early 20th century is now on exhibit at the Delaware Art Museum.  American Moderns, 1910–1960: From O’Keeffe to Rockwell opened Oct. 12. The exhibit brings together different styles from so-called primitive to cubist art. The works are as varied as the styles.  Some are charming, some alarming and others filled with…

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