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![]() | Happy Days 1905 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | La Mere (The Mother) 1888 Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH | ![]() , her first large oil, into the most prestigious annual exhibition in Paris, the Salon. Not only was La mere selected, but was also placed “on the line,” or at eye-level, a tremendous honor as the walls were packed with paintings from the floor to the ceiling. After such a glowing reception at the Salon, the painting was shown across Europe and... | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | Moorish Boy 1897 Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH | ![]() se complained that she was not able to complete many large oil paintings because she could only get her native models to pose for a short time. Moorish Boy was perhaps completed from sketches made on this trip. The vivid orange of the boy’s shirt and the brilliant green background accurately capture the bright colors of North Africa. | GA | Anonymous |
| Peasant Women Of Borst 1891 Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH | GA | Anonymous | ||
![]() | Etude before 1892 Colby College Museum of Art Waterville, ME | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Self-portrait 1892 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]() Elizabeth Nourse (b. October 26, 1859 – October 8, 1938) was a portrait and landscape painter born in Cincinnati, Ohio in the Mt. Healthy area. She also was familiar with working with watercolors, painting furniture and sculpting. | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | Moorish Prince 1897 New Britain Museum of American Art New Britain, CT | ![]() rican, who rests one hand firmly on his hip and holds a cigarette in the other. He wears a white turban around his dark head and several layers of colorful clothing wrapped loosely around his body. Blue, green, and yellow fabrics add color accents to his essentially monochromatic robe, and a vivid red waistband contributes an especially bright note... | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | Fisher Girl Of Picardy 1889 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() In the summer of 1889, Elizabeth Nourse traveled with her sister Louise and their Cincinnati friend Anna Schmidt around northern France. It was a bitterly cold day when Nourse painted this scene, and Anna later wrote: “I was with Elizabeth when she painted that girl on the Etaples Dunes---it was so cold and windy the model used to weep.” The... | GA | Anonymous |
![]() | Flock Of Geese ca. 1883 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
![]() | Lilacs 1891 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous |
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