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Life and Genre : 2 Hartford’s Gurdon Trumbull ignored the custom of painting a fisherman’s catch and portrayed instead fish who are fighting to live. John Haberle of New Haven incorporated humor and irony into his fool-the-eye still lifes. The art of Charles Ethan Porter, a fruit and flower painter, was admired by Mark Twain and Frederic Church, a major achievement in itself, but Porter was also an African-American. Despite the odds against it, he studied and exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York and had a long career in Connecticut. >next 1 . 2 . 3 |