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After the Shower

oil on paperboard
8 1/2 x 10 in. (21.6 x 25.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Approaching Storm

1886
oil on canvas
40 1/8 x 60 in. (102.0 x 152.4 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
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...
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Child with Birds and Dog

1882
oil on canvas
44 3/8 x 34 1/4 in. (112.6 x 86.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Cows in the Forest

1879
charcoal and chalk on paper mounted on paperboard
sight 15 1/8 x 21 7/8 in. (38.3 x 55.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Dorchester 1856

1856
oil on canvas
14 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. (35.9 x 51.1 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
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...
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Driving Home the Cows

1881
oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 50 1/8 in. (81.9 x 127.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Fisherman by Water

1886
oil on paperboard
8 x 11 3/4 in. (20.3 x 29.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Herdsmen with Cows

1869
oil on canvas
31 1/4 x 51 5/8 in. (79.4 x 131.2 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Homeward

1895
oil on canvas
9 x 14 in. (22.8 x 35.7 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Landscape

1899
oil on canvas
14 x 20 in. (35.5 x 50.9 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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