SAN MARINO, CA.- Taxes, rent, economic depression, and financial inequity are the subject matter of the 27 visually provocative paintings and seven works on paper assembled for “Taxing Visions: Financial Episodes in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art,” on view at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens through May 30, 2011. Organized jointly by The Huntington and the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, the exhibition challenges conventional wisdom about the period. Although the late 19th century is identified artistically with leisure-laden landscapes, abundant still lifes, and class-conscious official portraits, American artists working in a variety of stylistic idioms also turned their attention to the financial panics and occupational turmoil that marked the Reconstruction, Gilded Age, and early Progressive eras. The 34 works in “Taxing Visions,” which are o