American Old Master painter Thomas Sully
created dynamic characters that play their parts
on canvas, in performances staged in paint. See
nineteenth-century celebrities and theatrical
classics, from President Andrew Jackson to
Cinderella, beautifully brought to life.
THROUGH JAN 5, 2014
Thomas Sully, Prison Scene from J. Fenimore Cooper's "The Pilot":
Cecelia Howard and Katherine Plowden Arousing the Prisoner Edward Griļ¬th
from His Slumber, 1841 (detail). Birmingham Museum of Art.
