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University of Virginia Art Museum exhibit on The Fourteenth Street School opens

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- Urban realism, with a touch of Renaissance idealism, was the bread and butter of the Fourteenth Street School, a group of New York artists who made their mark between the world wars. A new exhibition at the University of Virginia Art Museum, “Figure Study: The Fourteenth Street School and the Woman in Public,” draws on the museum’s collection of paintings, prints and drawings by these artists. The exhibit opened Aug. 26 and runs through Dec. 23. The museum is open to the public free of charge Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Artists including Kenneth Hayes Miller, Isabel Bishop, Guy Pene du Bois and Reginald Marsh, who all lived and worked in the Union Square neighborhood and