Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860 Home Improvement Holman draw on twenty-five years

Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport

the Twentieth Maine

in keeping with its utilitarian objective of promoting the general welfare

Pages: 112 pages

and verdant forests--continues to have a powerful effect on the artists who are drawn to its shores

Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860 Home Improvement Holman draw on twenty-five yearsEdited by Laura Fecych Sprague and Justin Wolff Once called the Yankee Da Vinci, Rufus Porter was an itinerant portrait painter and muralist, a publisher and author, an inventor of mechanical improvements, and an impresario who engineered an airship that promised to fly gold rush prospectors from New York to California in three days. Through his diverse interests in painting, mechanics, aeronautics, and publishing, Rufus Porter helped transform art