William Harnett, The Faithful Colt, 1890
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
  • William Harnett, The Faithful Colt, 1890

There's an art talk Thursday at 6 pm at Seattle U (free) called Better Than the Thing Itself: Typographic Space and Consumer Desire in Late Nineteenth-Century American Advertising and Trompe-l'oeil Painting—that sounds NEAT. It includes this guy's paintings.