The topic of my Speech Two is a painting Blue Boy. It was done by an English painter Thomas Gainsborough in 1770. To get a quick information and a visual, I have to admit, I did pick in Wikipedia. I have found artist’s biography in The Dictionary of Art. According to other online sources, outside of Wikipedia, Blue Boy belonged to Gainsborough’s most famous paintings. To my surprise, it was not even mentioned in The Dictionary of Art. My research in the library was not very successful, since the articles were not readily available. I have ordered Gainsborough in Bath (he painted Blue Boy while living there) through Ohio Link Library Catalog from Ohio State. In order to fulfil the assignment I will have to use the information found in The Dictionary of Art and on line.
Works Cited
Gainsborough, Thomas. Blue Boy. 1770.
Gainsborough, Thomas. Blue Boy. 1770.
Turner, Jane, ed. “Ferrara to Gainsborough”. The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 11. London: Macmillan
Publishers Limited, 1996. New York: Grove’s Dictonaries Inc., 1996. 906-13.
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