tobacco field painting Watercolor: North Carolina Fields A painting by National Park Service artist Sydney King. Aaron St John Litho /

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Italian-made pants are designed with a slim cigarette-leg silhouette

A year spent living and working in Italy, at the Rome campus of the Tyler School of Art, part of Temple University in Philadelphia, influenced the artist's work in ways Im still trying to figure out. She spent many hours exploring the city and making black-and-white photographs of fragments of ancient figurative sculptures, still extant against backgrounds of classical architecture

Much of the offerings at that sale and the one held the week before was sunbaked and drew a low price