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The book is full of interesting tidbits about the artists and the paintings, which really help bring them to life and place them in the proper context. Pennington makes a passionate case for why this style of painting continues to be important to art history and culture, not just in the South, but in all of America. --Real South Magazine, June 2013 issue, review by L. J. Gouveia

Pennington makes a passionate case for why this style of painting continues to be important to art history and culture, not just in the South, but in all of America. --L.J. Gouveia, Real South Reviews, June 2013

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Estill Curtis Pennington has served in curatorial capacities for the Archives of American Art, National Portrait Gallery, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Morris Museum of Art. Pennington's Kentucky: The Master Painters from the Frontier Era to the Great Depression was a nominee for the Smithsonian's Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art and a winner of the 2009 Publication Award of Merit from the Kentucky Historical Society. His most recent book, Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920, has also been honored by the Kentucky Historical Society.

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