He was largely responsible for spurring interest in early 19th-century American art.
These themes of healing and eating are common in early Christian art.
They have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.
It has no roots in earlier art (as we use the term today).
They made a case for his having been, as it were, more on the cutting edge of early 16th-century art than scholars had thought.
His debt to earlier American art is clear at a glance.
He is most notable as a major figure in early Canadian art.
And then there is the work that makes highly conscious appropriations from earlier art.
Specialists said the find changed their thinking about how early art evolved.
It's good to have a show of early Netherlandish art.