Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860 Umbrellas this book traces the artist’s

this book traces the artist’s experiments with different media and highlights innovative techniques that established his reputation as early modernist

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Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815-1860 Umbrellas this book traces the artist’sEdited 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