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![]() | After the Shower oil on paperboard Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Approaching Storm 1886 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() This windy scene of a lone figure struggling in the face of a storm would have held special meaning for nineteenth-century viewers, who believed that their nation's landscape was infused with God's presence. In 1886, the year he painted Approaching Storm, Edward Mitchell Bannister wrote an essay titled "The Artist and His Critics," in which he argued... | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | Child with Birds and Dog 1882 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Cows in the Forest 1879 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Dorchester 1856 1856 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() This is one of Edward Mitchell Bannister's few surviving paintings from the 1850s. In this view of Dorchester, Massachusetts, the artist included the stately homes dotting the coast. This was likely a marketing tactic, for he hoped to appeal to the wealthy merchants living in those "cottages." Bannister spent summers sailing around Massachusetts and... | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | Driving Home the Cows 1881 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Fisherman by Water 1886 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Herdsmen with Cows 1869 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Homeward 1895 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Landscape 1899 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous |
- Edward M. Bannister